Explaining and Predicting Cultural Differences in Negotiation (original) (raw)

Cultural influences to Negotiation

2020

The cultures will be influencing the negotiation process by the thoughts of people, different communication processes, and behavior which create the barriers for the Negotiation. The paper is to analyze a previous studies conducted on the Cultural Influence on Negotiations and their Impacts.

Cultural tendencies in negotiation: A comparison of Finland, India, Mexico, Turkey, and the United States

Journal of World Business, 2006

In this era of increased global cooperation, a growing number of negotiators conduct business in multiple countries and, therefore, need access to a systematic comparison of negotiating tendencies across a wide range of countries. Empirical work systematically comparing variations across a range of cultures is scarce. A comparative analysis of negotiating tendencies in five countries is presented. This study establishes the utility of the [Salacuse, J. (1998) Ten ways that culture affects negotiating style: Some survey results. Negotiation Journal, 14(3): 221-235] framework in identifying country differences across five countries, representing five cultural clusters. Significant differences in negotiation orientations both between and within cultures were revealed at a level of complexity not found in previous empirical studies. # 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Culture and Joint Gains in Negotiation

Negotiation Journal, 1998

What effect does culture have on the achievement of joint gains in negotiation? Prior research has identified a number of strategies, for example sharing information about preferences and priorities, eschewing power, that lead to the development of joint gains when both negotiators are from the U.S. Are these same strategies used in other cultures? Are other strategies used? How effective are negotiators from different cultures in realizing joint gains? These are among the questions considered by the authors, whose research is based on data collected from negotiators from six different cultural backgrounds: France, Russia, Japan, Hong Kong, Brazil, and the U.S.

The science of culture and negotiation

Recent negotiation research has produced a groundswell of insights about the effects of culture on negotiation. Yet, few frameworks exist to organize the findings. This review integrates recent research using a two-dimensional framework: The first dimension organizes the research into that which has taken: (1) a comparative intracultural approach, versus (2) an intercultural approach. The second dimension organizes the research by its emphasis on: (1) inputs into negotiation, (2) processes of negotiating, and (3) outcomes of negotiation. This framework helps to organize extant research and produces novel insights about the connections between disparate research streams, revealing both commonalities and culture-specificities in negotiation strategy and outcomes and suggesting that intercultural negotiations are difficult but not insurmountable. We conclude by discussing several areas in which more research on culture and negotiation is urgently needed in today's globalizing world.

CROSS-CULTURAL NEGOTIATIONS

Negotiation is an open communication skill that differentiates a lot than dialogue and that skill has become one of the success keys in business areas and professional life .negotiator who negotiate very well always achieve a good earnings and the bad negotiator always makes loses, according to (Ursula F. Ott,2016) "Negotiations belong to the basic social interaction processes and they have formed a cognitive scheme and differ between people and cultures ".Cross-cultural negotiations are about the difference between the behavior of each partner in negotiation, according to (Kathryn J. Ready,2009) "If negotiating parties are from different cultures, they may have varying beliefs and perceptions about what negotiation is and how it occurs." Culture has a big influence on negotiation and how to make a decision and the aim of negotiation for each party differs from culture to another culture, according to( Moran 2000) " In Asian cultures, (e.g., Malaysia), the creation of long-term relationships between two parties is more important than the actual outcome". Cultures differ for different factors that has an effect in shaping negotiation styles ,firstly religious factor and different beliefs ,for example countries like Taiwan ,Iran and the USA ,according to (Adapa, 2008) "culture is a set of shared values and beliefs that characterize national, ethnic, moral and other group behavior." So, many researches explore results of how different religions differ in making negotiation with different cultures (Iran, Taiwan and USA) ,according to ( Farideh,2011) "Christian group had a higher significant value than Muslim and Buddhist groups for all four negotiation styles. In other words, the Christian group prefers to employ all four negotiation styles more

Сultural influences on negotiations

Negotiation is a process deeply rooted in culture, customs and organizational and individual characteristics. It is a process that has apparent or real built-in inefficiencies that have little to do with the negotiated issues and a lot with the context and rituals. Time and other resource constraints under which both individual and organizational customers operate, requirements imposed by businesses and technological advancements introduce pressures to conduct effective and efficient negotiations.

Descriptive Norms as Carriers of Culture in Negotiation1

International Negotiation, 2011

Research on culture and negotiation is critical for expanding theories of negotiation beyond Western cultures and for helping people to manage their interdependence in a world of increasing global threats and opportunities. Despite progress of understanding cultural influences on negotiation, research is limited in that it portrays a static and decontextualized view of culture and ignores cultural dynamics. The almost exclusive focus on main effects of culture in negotiation has its roots in a subjectivist approach to culture which has prioritized the study of values, or trans-situational goals. In this article, we discuss the descriptive norms approach to culture and its promise for the study of culture and negotiation. A descriptive norms approach highlights the dynamics of culture in negotiation (i.e., the conditions under which culture effects become amplified, reduced, or even reversed), it identifies new empirical mediating mechanisms for cultural effects, and it sheds new lig...

Starting Out on the Right Foot: Negotiation Schemas When Cultures Collide

Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, 2009

We investigate the intercultural negotiation schemas of 100 experienced Japanese and U.S. negotiators. Specifically, we examine the assumptions negotiators make about appropriate behavior when primed to negotiate with an intercultural (vs. intracultural) counterpart. We find that intercultural negotiation schemas clash on six of nine elements, meaning U.S. and Japanese negotiators have significantly different expectations about what it is like to negotiate with the other. This clash occurs not because negotiators stay anchored on their own cultural assumptions about negotiating, but rather because they try to adjust to their counterpart's cultural assumptions about negotiating. But negotiators adjust their schemas by thinking about how their counterpart negotiates in an intracultural rather than intercultural setting. That is, they fail to account for the fact that their counterpart would also adjust expectations for the intercultural context. The phenomenon we uncover is one of schematic overcompensation, whereby negotiators' intercultural schemas do not match because each negotiator expects the encounter to be just like the counterpart's within-culture negotiations. Our theory of schematic overcompensation receives some support, and negotiators' perceived knowledge and experience with the other culture somewhat attenuates the phenomenon. Implications for negotiator cognition, intercultural negotiation, and global management are discussed. The authors would like to thank Debra L. Shapiro and Jeanne M. Brett, who provided valuable feedback and suggestions for revisions.

Cultural Influences in NegotiationsA Four Country Comparative Analysis

International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 2007

Empirical work systematically comparing variations across a range of countries is scarce. A comprehensive framework having the potential to yield comparable information across countries on 12 negotiating tendencies was proposed more than 20 years ago by Weiss and Stripp; however, the framework was never operationalized or empirically tested. A review of the negotiation and cross cultural research that have accumulated over the last two decades led to refinements in the definition of the dimensions in the framework. We operationalized four dimensions in the Negotiation Orientations Framework and developed the Negotiation Orientations Inventory (NOI) to assess individual orientations on those four dimensions. Data were collected from a sample of 1000 business people and university students with business experience from Finland, Mexico, Turkey, and the United States. Results are presented and further scale development is discussed. Findings establish the utility of the dimensions in the framework in making comparisons between the four countries.