Showing posts with label International. Show all posts
Showing posts with label International. Show all posts

Thursday, October 14, 2010

International Conversation Patterns

Conversational behavior across the international bargaining table

EXPRESSIVE NEGOTIATORS: Overlapping each other.
1st Speaker: ________               _________             _______
2nd Speaker:        --------------------              ------------------
RESERVED NEGOTIATORS: Taking turns to avoid overlap.
1st Speaker: ________                        _________                   _______
2nd Speaker:                   -----------                            --------
JAPANESE NEGOTIATORS: Intervals of silence between speakers.
1st Speaker: ________                             ____                                           _____
2nd Speaker:                        -----                                    -----

-Patterns of Cross-Cultural Business Behavior
Marketing, Negotiating and Managing Across Cultures
R. Gesteland
Copenhagen Business School Press, 1999
R. Gesteland