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What novices think about negotiation: a content analysis of scripts

Journal

Negotiation Journal

Subject

Organisational Behaviour

Publishing details

Negotiation Journal 1999 Vol 15:2 p 135-148

Authors / Editors

O'Connor K M;Adams A A

Publication Year

1999

Abstract

What do novices think about the negotiation process? Though scholars have assumed that negotiators rely on cognitive scripts to guide their behavior in negotiation, scant empirical evidence documents the existence and content of these scripts. A sample of novice negotiators listed all the actions that they believed constituted successful negotiation. The findings indicate that people have a socially-shared sense of the appropriate sequence of behaviors for negotiating. Closer scrutiny, however, shows that many of these behaviors are associated with poor negotiated outcomes. Specifically, an investigation of the content of these scripts shows that novices believe that incompatible interests, sequential issue settlement, impasses, and competitive behavior are common to the negotiation process.

Keywords

Empirical evidence; Content analysis; Negotiation process; Competitive behaviour; Evidence document

Available on ECCH

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