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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480848503321

Titolo

Negotiating on behalf of others [[electronic resource] ] : advice to lawyers, business executives, sports agents, diplomats, politicians, and everybody else / / edited by Robert H. Mnookin, Lawrence E. Susskind, with Pacey C. Foster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c1999

ISBN

0-7619-1326-2

1-322-41286-3

1-4522-2134-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Collana

Negotiation and dispute resolution

Altri autori (Persone)

MnookinRobert H

SusskindLawrence

FosterPacey C

Disciplina

302.3

658.4052

Soggetti

Negotiation in business - United States

Negotiation - United States

Agency (Law) - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I - Negotiation Theory Revisited; Chapter 1 - Toward a Theory of Representation in Negotiation; Commentary - The Shifting Role of Agents in Interest-Based Negotiations; Chapter 2 - Authority of an Agent:When Is Less Better?; Commentary - Rational Authority Allocation to an Agent; Chapter 3 - Minimizing Agency Costs in Two-Level Games: Lessons From the Trade Authority Controversies in the United States and the European Union; Commentary - Minimizing Agency Costs:Toward a Testable Theory; Part II - Agency in Context

Chapter 4 - Challenges for International Diplomatic AgentsCommentary - The Role of Agents in International Negotiation; Chapter 5 - Law and Power in Agency Relationships; Commentary - Law and Power in Agency Relationships; Chapter 6 - Agency in the Context of Labor



Negotiations; Commentary - Agency in the Context of Labor Management; Chapter 7 - Legislators as Negotiators; Commentary - Turning the Tables: Negotiation as the Exogenous Variable; Chapter 8 - First, Let's Kill All the Agentsl; Commentary - Unnecessary Toughness: Hard Bargaining as an Extreme Sport

Part III - Prescriptive ImplicationsChapter 9 - Major Themes and Prescriptive Implications; Chapter 10 - Agents in Negotiations:Toward Testable Propositions; Annotated Bibliography of Selected Sources; Index; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

This volume explores current negotiation theory, providing a framework for understanding the complexity of negotiating for others. It includes labour-management relations, international diplomacy, sports agents, legislative process and agency law.