Negotiating Globally : How to Negotiate Deals, Resolve Disputes, and Make Decisions Across Cultural Boundaries

Negotiating Globally is an essential resource that provides managers with an accessible framework to help them customize and adjust negotiations as they navigate cultural boundaries. Written by an internationally acknowledged expert on the subject, this book will help negotiators cross ethnocentric and geopolitical boundaries successfully as it provides solid information and strategies that will be useful in any cross-cultural negotiation. Packed with practical advice on how to manage cultural differences whenever they appear at the negotiation table, Negotiating Globally is a key resource when it comes to negotiating deals, resolving disputes, and making decisions in the global market. Instructive stories and cases from the author's original research give readers a real-world look at the author's advice in action.

JEANNE M. BRETT is the DeWitt W. Buchanan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Dispute Resolution and Organizations at the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, where she is also the director and a founding member of the Dispute Resolution Research Center. She divides her time between research, teaching and consulting on negotiation strategies in a global environment. Brett is coauthor of Getting Disputes Resolved: Designing Systems to Cut the Costs of Conflict (Jossey-Bass, 1988).