Japanese Business Negotiation Style
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Japanese business negotiation style. The first thing to note about the japanese is their focus on the welfare of the group or organization. The japanese negotiation style. A friend from business school days phoned me last week to ask for my advice on negotiating with japanese business people.
Graham during the last 15 years a group of colleagues and i have systematically studied the negotiation styles of business people in 15 countries 17 cultm es japan korea taiwan china northern and southern hong kong the philippines. Negotiating style will be non individualistic impersonal and unemotional but emotion is important it is just under the surface. However these principles are not the first priorities of the japanese.
Japanese style of business negotiations the economist james c. E 2003 core cultural concepts. Americans also think that the japanese do not clarify details at the negotiation table and that they leave an opportunity for behind the scenes negotiation.
One distinctive characteristic of this negotiation style is the consen sual decision making process which has been adopted by japanese com panies in their business negotiations. Business negotiations 23 negotiation process and strategies reflect this. Professor bob march is one of australia s leading specialists on japanese business and culture.
The understanding of culture is very important in all cross cultural transactions particularly in negotiations. Business executives expect foreign industrialists to follow our ways when in this country so the japanese expect us to adapt to their ways when negotiating in the mikado s empire. Characteristics of a distinct approach john l.
This japanese negotiation process is often. Logic and intellectual argument alone cannot sway the japanese. Reflected in the japanese negotiation style.