Subcoalition Cluster Analysis: A New Method for Modeling Conflict in Organizations

The authors thank the department editor Lamar Pierce, an anonymous associate editor, and three excellent reviewers for insightful comments and questions during the review process that improved this paper and Nathan Atkinson, Dorit Hochbaum, and James Orlin for help in adapting ideas from network flow and combinatorial optimization to this setting; the authors are particularly indebted to James for his assistance in defining the properties of the procedure for producing a weak ranking. The authors received helpful comments and feedback of various forms from a long list of individuals, including Kieran Allsop, Jasmina Chauvin, John-Paul Ferguson, Thorbjorn Knudsen, John Mantus, Metin Sengul, Craig Tovey, and John Walsh.