{"title":"From Diverse Perspectives to Unified Agreements: Intercultural Negotiation Dynamics in the Digital Age","authors":"Renata Čuhlová, Jaroslav Demel","doi":"10.1177/23294906241253516","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to investigate the role of cultural differences within the current international business environment affected by technological advances, concentrating on the negotiation procedure and its outcome. The conclusion is based on the analysis of email interviews between top negotiators from the Czech Republic with long-term professional experience worldwide. The authors suggest considering a salesperson culture as a dynamic framework of top-down–bottom-up processes across cultural levels. Research indicates that, despite a reduction in costs thanks to the migration of negotiation meetings to online platforms, negotiators still prefer face-to-face meetings as the primary mode when managing intercultural nuances.","PeriodicalId":46217,"journal":{"name":"Business and Professional Communication Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Business and Professional Communication Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23294906241253516","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article aims to investigate the role of cultural differences within the current international business environment affected by technological advances, concentrating on the negotiation procedure and its outcome. The conclusion is based on the analysis of email interviews between top negotiators from the Czech Republic with long-term professional experience worldwide. The authors suggest considering a salesperson culture as a dynamic framework of top-down–bottom-up processes across cultural levels. Research indicates that, despite a reduction in costs thanks to the migration of negotiation meetings to online platforms, negotiators still prefer face-to-face meetings as the primary mode when managing intercultural nuances.
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Business and Professional Communication Quarterly is the only refereed journal devoted to research that advances the teaching of communication in the workplace. The journal aims to present the many interdisciplinary, international, and organizational perspectives that characterize the field and specifically to publish research that advances knowledge about business and professional communication pedagogy and praxis in both academic and workplace settings, including technical and scientific communication, rhetoric, program design and assessment, the impact of technology, sustainability, global and multicultural issues, nonprofit communication, and best practices. As an interdisciplinary journal, BPCQ welcomes manuscripts that address a variety of theoretical, applied, and practical approaches and topics in the teaching and praxis of business, corporate, organizational, professional, or technical communication, including qualitative and quantitative research on classroom teaching or assessment, case studies of specific classroom techniques, reports on strategies for program development, innovative assignments or methodologies, and reviews of scholarship relevant to business and professional communication pedagogy. BPCQ especially welcomes manuscripts that address the principles of SoTL (scholarship of teaching and learning). BPCQ also publishes articles on a particular theme, for which a call may be announced on the ABC website: http://www.businesscommunication.org. Information on submitting book reviews can be found at http://www.montclair.edu/cwe/bcq