This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the impact of NAFTA on growth and business cycles in Mexico. The effect of the agreement in spurring a dramatic increase in trade and financial flows between Mexico and its NAFTA partners, and its impact on Mexican economic growth and business...

As the selection of arbitrators and mediators is transparent and mutually agreed, their independence of any ties to the respective parties is ensured, promoting impartiality and professionalism on the part of those responsible for resolving the conflict.

As the selection of arbitrators and mediators is transparent and mutually agreed, their independence of any ties to the respective parties is ensured, promoting impartiality and professionalism on the part of those responsible for resolving the conflict.

This paper presents the results of an experiment performed to test the properties of an innovative bargaining mechanism (called automated negotiation) used to resolve disputes arising from Internet-based transactions. Automated negotiation is an online sealed-bid process in which an automated...

There were numerous studies on conflict or conflict management styles (Jehn, 1997; Rahim, 2001) and individual and group outcomes, but no study, to our knowledge, investigated the moderating or mediating effects of the conflict management strategies on the relationship between conflict and job...

The impact individual differences have on social interactions such as negotiations and group processes has been largely discounted and doubted by scholars in recent years (e.g., Bazerman, Curhan, Moore, & Valley, 2000; Davis-Blake & Pfeffer, 1989). For example, negotiation researchers have...

The current study was designed to investigate conflict dynamics in intact work teams, focusing on the role of emotional experience in the process of conflict management. Furthermore, we attempted to elucidate the contribution of an individual disposition (self-efficacy) and a situational-group...

This study tested a structural equations model of the French and Raven bases of supervisory power (coercive, reward, legitimate, expert, and referent), strategies of managing conflict with supervisor (problem solving and bargaining), and propensity to leave a job. The LISREL 8 analysis of...

This article argues that a mediator, conscious of the metaphors disputants use, aware of their implications and skilled in their use, will hear more, be better able to reframe, disentangle and guide communications to explore meanings, enhance self-reflection, and expand possibilities. A growing...