In this revised edition, as in the first, Cohen explores how cultural factors have affected U.S. dealings with Japan, China, Egypt, India, and Mexico. He demonstrates that there are two quite different models of negotiation: "low context." a predominantly verbal and explicit style typical of individualistic societies such as the United States, and "high context," a style associated with nonverbal and implicit communication more typical of traditionally interdependent societies.
Negotiating Across Cultures
This text will appeal to scholars and researchers in international business, cross-cultural studies, and conflict management who seek to understand the challenges of intercultural communication and negotiation.
According to the authors Shi and Wright the business executive’s work has an increasingly international orientation and international business negotiation becomes an important competency in a global business environment.
Gudykunst, W., and Nishida, T. Bridging Japanese/North American Differences. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1994. Guidelines for the Design of Integrated Conflict Management Systems within Organizations. Washington, D.C.: Society for ...
This book about strategic negotiation across cultures examines the negotiations of US multinational companies in China, Japan, and India.
This new edition incorporates the lessons of the latest research with new emphasis on executing a negotiation strategy and negotiating conflict in multicultural teams.
The book's strength is its combination of a lucid and comprehensive discussion of issues and concepts with a series of case studies concerning specific rivers and the people who live and produce on their banks and tributaries.
The aim of The Global Negotiator is to equip business executives with that exact knowledge.
Negotiating Culture and Human Rights provides a new interdisciplinary approach to issues of cultural values and universal human rights.
The Handbook of Negotiation and Culture, edited by two of the foremost authorities on the topic, represents an important contribution to the literature. All negotiation researchers should explore the contents of this volume.