Strategic Corporate Negotiations A Framework for Win-Win Agreements

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Andrea Caputo

Strategic Corporate Negotiations

Andrea Caputo

Strategic Corporate Negotiations A Framework for Win-Win Agreements

Andrea Caputo University of Lincoln Lincoln, UK

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Foreword

Written by Richard Cyert and James March in 1963, A Behavioral Theory of the Firm still represents, without doubt, a catalyst book in the study of how dominant coalitions take strategic decisions; in fact, since its publication, many strategic choices have started to be substantially considered as negotiated processes. On this basis, and especially because of the current hyper-complexity featuring our socio-economic system, understanding how strategic negotiations de facto happen, and how they could happen better, represents an important and lively area in the research on and practice of corporate decision-making. Win-lose and win-win scenarios, BATNAs, Reservation Prices, and third parties, but also heuristics, cognitive biases and the personality of who negotiates: in this exciting, constantly evolving, scientific context, this book written by Andrea Caputo (Lincoln Business School) contributes to the addressing of these simple, but meaningful, research questions: How can negotiations be currently conceived? How and why do they occur? How can the strategic negotiations be improved, in terms of results for all (not