Intercultural Business Negotiations : the Deal and/or Relationship Framework.

Author/creator Usunier, Jean-Claude, 1951-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMilton : Routledge, 2018.
Description1 online resource (375 pages)
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central

Contents Cover; Half Title; Endorsement; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of contents; List of figures and tables; Preface; Part one Calculative vs relational rationality in intercultural business negotiations; 1 Deal and/or relationship; Negotiation defined; A general definition of negotiation; Alternative functional definitions of negotiation; The negotiation system; Bargaining versus negotiation; Bargaining and reservation price; The negotiation setting; Conditions, objects, and context; Nature and origin of knowledge about negotiation
Contents The interdisciplinary nature of negotiation research and knowledgeA favourable picture nuanced; Deal or, and/or Relationship; Definitions of deal and relationship; Should deal and relationship be separated, divorced from each other?; What comes first? What should come first?; Combination of deals and relationship patterns over time; Deal patterns; Relationship patterns; Wrong assumptions about relationships; Key negotiation concepts in the light of the deal versus relationship paradigm; Walk-away options: The Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement
Contents Integrative orientation versus distributive orientationConcern for the other party's outcomes; Two meaningful metaphors about negotiation: Card game and theatre play; Information, power, and asymmetries; The market background of ICBN; Do negotiation concepts apply cross-culturally and interculturally?; How this book is organized; Notes; 2 A cultural perspective on deal-making versus relationship-building; Does culture matter for international negotiations?; Introductory caveats; However, culture matters ... ; Culture defined; Culture as learned and forgotten norms and behavioural patterns
Contents Definitions of cultureShould culture be quantitatively measured or thickly (qualitatively) described?; Task-orientation versus people-orientation; Doing orientation; Being orientation and ICBN; I, we, and they in ICBN: Interacting with foreigners; Outgroup orientation: We (including They) are -- fundamentally -- the same; Ingroup orientation: We and They are fundamentally different; Interaction patterns: Individualism vs collectivism; Individualism; Collectivism; Culture, concern for the other party's outcome, and the "mythical fixed pie"; Cultural orientations favouring an integrative strategy
Contents ICBN versus intracultural negotiationPower play: Horizontal and vertical negotiation interactions; Status and power are important; Influence of low/high power distance on ICBN; Formal vs. actual power orientation in ICBN; Synchronizing tasks or prioritizing personal bonds; (Joint) utility vs. (shared) identity; Utilitarian, privileging utility; Identitarian, privileging identity; Language and communication styles; Low-context communication style; High-context communication style; Mindsets; Synchronizing with others: Time orientations
General noteOutcome orientation: Comprehensive contractual arrangement versus broad relational agreement
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Usunier, Jean-Claude. Intercultural Business Negotiations : The Deal and/or Relationship Framework. Milton : Routledge, ©2018 9781138577022
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