The change and convergence of mental models have received increasing attention, while the antecedents have been under researched. The purpose of this study is to explore under which conditions people are likely to change and converge their mental models in the context of dyadic negotiation....

Cultural intelligence (CQ), defined as one's capability to adapt to new cultural contexts (Earley, 2002), is a new concept in organizational literature. In this paper, we identify cultural intelligence as an important individual variable in international business negotiation. We propose a...

The role of emotional messages in interpersonal influence is powerful but under-explored in the social influence literatures. In this extended abstract, we propose a connectionist approach and argue that the exchange of emotional messages in social influence encompasses dual processes of...

In recent years, negotiation scholars have studied the effects of culture on negotiation as well as the effects of personality. This paper combines these two streams of research, and asks the question: Are the effects of personality on negotiation the same in a high-context, collectivist as they...

Recent research suggests that employees are highly affected by perceptions of their managers' pattern of word-action consistency, which Simons (2002) called "behavioral integrity" (BI). We suggest that some employee racial groups may be more attentive to BI than others. We test this notion using...

We investigate how trust reduces the tendency to use deception in negotiations from a culturally contextual perspective. We find culturally divergent patterns across Chinese and American negotiators. Specifically, for Chinese negotiators, cognition-based trust decreases the approval of using...

The notion of “behavioral integrity” describes the extent to which one person perceives that another lives by his or her word, keeps promises, and lives by professed values. Effective management leadership depends on how employees perceive their manager's behavior on these points, because...

We investigated the process and outcomes of a systematic approach to institutionalize conflict management in a large public nonprofit organization. Using longitudinal and multilevel field data, we were able to identify the effects of the institutionalization process from multiple perspectives....

In this study, we examine culture-specific relationships between individual differences and distributive negotiations. We measured individual characteristics and their effects on distributive negotiations in both American[1] and Chinese cultures, using a Western-based scale (the 'Big Five') and...