Multiparty Negotiations – Research Problems Formulation



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MULTIPARTY NEGOTIATIONS

– RESEARCH PROBLEMS FORMULATION

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to identify crucial research problems occurring in multiparty negotiations. The formulation of those problems is necessary to elaborate methodological framework for the analysis of such negotiations, in order to find effective tools of conducting them. Firstly, the general idea of multiparty negotiations was presented, pointing out their features in comparison with typical, two-party (bilateral) negotiations. Secondly, in the subsequent parts of the paper, crucial research problems of multiparty negotiations analysis were characterized, according to the dimensions of complexity of such negotiations, namely: informational and computational, social, procedural and strategic ones. Moreover some potential solutions to those problems were suggested as well. Summing up the paper, the subsequent areas of research were pointed out.

Kewords: business negotiations, multiparty negotiations, features of multiparty negotiations, complexity of multiparty negotiations, strategies of multiparty negotiations.

1. Introduction

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