Intergroup conflict is a pervasive issue at the heart of concern for organizations and society alike. Currently, there is little consensus about the impetus for intergroup conflict. Micro approaches focus on behavioral aspects of individuals, personality factors, and characteristics of group composition, whereas macro theories explain the reason for tension as competition as the factors within the external environment that contribute to differences in power. In this article, I offer a Resource Dependence Perspective on intergroup conflict (Pfeffer & Salancik, 1978), which focuses on the strategic actions undertaken to manage dependencies with other entities in their environment, and synthesize the two theoretical perspectives into a single more comprehensive view of intergroup conflict. I offer propositions, a theoretical model, and discuss implications for research and practice.

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资源依赖视角下的群体间冲突：两种理论的综合

群体间冲突是组织和社会共同关注的核心问题。目前，关于群体间冲突的动力还没有达成共识。微观方法侧重于个人的行为方面，人格因素和群体组成的特征，而宏观理论则解释了由于竞争而产生紧张的原因，因为竞争是外部环境中导致权力差异的因素。在本文中，我提供了关于群体间冲突的资源依赖观点（Pfeffer＆Salancik，1978），该观点着重于为管理与环境中其他实体之间的依赖关系而采取的战略行动，并将这两种理论观点综合为一个更全面的观点组间冲突。我提供一些命题，一个理论模型，