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Deliberative democracy has received growing attention in business ethics as well as in management and organization studies. We consider dialogue a central feature of democratic deliberation and examine the literature to better understand under what contexts dialogue is more likely to emerge, with the intent of understanding how it may be induced to facilitate effective deliberative processes. The nature of participants' engagement with one another is proposed as a moderator, with relational engagement as a predictor of the emergence of dialogue. For this view, we explore how participants in intentionally relational organizations, namely collaborative housing organizations, engage in dialogue as a key facet of managing and resolving conflict in pursuit of seeking consent or consensus. Our findings suggest that when relational engagement is controlled for, other mechanisms and processes contribute to the …