Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Multiple parties and teams


Chapter 10 discusses the nature of multiparty negotiations. Its difference with the two party negotiation has been outlined in this chapter, such factors are considered:

-Number of parties
-Informational complexity
-Social complexity
-Procedural complexity strategic complexity

There are five ways when complexity increases as three of more parties simultaneously engage in negotiation.

-more parties involved in the negotiation
-more issues and positions
-become socially more complex
-negotiation become procedurally coordianate their actions more effectively
-more stragically comlex

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