Conflict Management in Indian Sub-Continent

Call for Papers

Conflict Management in Indian Sub-Continent

JOURNAL : International Journal of Conflict Management

PUBLISHER: Emerald Publishing

SUBMISSIONS OPEN: 1 April 2026

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30 November 2026

About This Special Issue

The Indian sub-continent represents one of the most dynamic socio-economic regions in the world, shaped by deep-rooted cultural traditions, rapid economic transformations, demographic diversity, and persistent geopolitical tensions. These layered contexts create distinctive patterns of conflict across workplaces, organizations, communities, and institutions. As economies in the region continue to globalize and digitize while simultaneously grappling with informality, inequality, and social stratification, conflict management emerges as a critical scholarly and practical concern.

Conflict in the Indian sub-continent cannot be fully understood through frameworks developed primarily in Western organizational contexts. Family-owned enterprises, informal labor arrangements, gender, caste, regional identities, and collectivistic value systems profoundly influence how conflicts emerge, escalate, and are addressed. The evolving realities demand context-sensitive theorizing and empirically grounded insights that reflect the lived experiences of individuals and organizations in the region.

This special issue seeks to advance scholarship on conflict management by foregrounding the unique institutional, cultural, and structural characteristics of the Indian sub-continent. It invites contributions that explore conflict at intra-personal, inter-personal, organizational, and societal levels. Contributions that examine culturally embedded conflict resolution practices, indigenous negotiation styles, and hybrid mechanisms that blend formal legal frameworks with informal social norms are particularly encouraged.

Aligning with the goals of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, this special issue also aims to highlight the broader implications of conflict management for employee well-being, organizational sustainability, and social cohesion.

Scope & Theme Areas

We invite submissions addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:

• Conflict Management in Family-Owned Businesses and SMEs — Distinctive conflict dynamics and resolution practices in family enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises

• Precarious Work and Informal Labor — Relationship between informal labor arrangements and organizational conflict

• Negotiation Styles and Dispute Resolution — Mechanisms unique to the sub-continent, including legal and institutional frameworks for conflict resolution

• Cross-Border Conflicts — Impact of cross-border tensions on multinational operations in the region

• Digitalization and Remote Work — Emerging forms of workplace conflict in digital and remote work environments

• Culturally Embedded Conflict Resolution — South Asian workplace practices and their theoretical and practical implications

• Conflict and Well-being — Relationship between workplace conflict and employee well-being

• Identity, Diversity and Workplace Conflict — How identity and diversity shape conflict dynamics in South Asian organizational contexts

• Gendered Dimensions of Conflict — Gender-based conflict patterns, resolution mechanisms, and outcomes

• Conflict in Gig and Unionized Work — Conflict management challenges specific to gig economy and unionized labor settings

Guest Editors

Richa Chaudhary

Aamna Khan

Dr. Abhishek Singh

Key Deadlines & Dates

Submission Guidelines

How to submit: Manuscripts must be submitted via ScholarOne Manuscripts at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijcma strictly following the journal's author guidelines available at https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/ijcma

Selection step: Authors must select the special issue title from the drop-down menu at the appropriate submission step — in response to "Please select the issue you are submitting to."

Eligibility: Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication elsewhere while under review for this journal.

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