Repairing relationships within and between organizations: building a conceptual foundation

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How can relationships be repaired after being damaged? This is a question of longstanding importance in the organizational sciences, although there has not been a focused effort to address it. In the present article we observe that there is a small but growing body of work on the topic which comes from a number of different disciplinary perspectives, using different theoretical lenses, and at different levels of analysis. We begin by examining the existing streams of work on relationship repair and organizing them into a conceptual framework. We then consider four questions which probe implicit assumptions or overlooked issues in existing research with intent of moving toward a more comprehensive conceptual foundation..Printed journal