ICNCR invites abstracts from researchers, academics, practitioners, and graduate students for peer review and, upon acceptance, for presentation at the conference. The conference maintains a multidisciplinary focus and welcomes presenters and attendees with expertise in business, management, human resources, communication, ethics, law, humanities, and social sciences.
Call for Papers
Topics and Themes
- Power dynamics in negotiation
- Forced arbitration clauses
- Negotiation under duress or legal threat
- Persuasion and influence
- Best alternative to negotiated settlement (BATNA)
- Distributive versus integrative bargaining
- Mediation
- Psychology of conflict and adversarial bargaining
- Role of ethics in negotiation
- Conflict of interest
- Research, intelligence-gathering, and effective use of information
- Zero-sum negotiation
- Strategy and tactics
- Game theory
- Case studies in negotiation, mediation, or arbitration
- Communication dynamics
- Emotional intelligence
- Negotiating from a position of strength or weakness
- Legal considerations and implications
- Multi-party negotiations
- Bluffing, mind games, and manipulation
- Pros and cons of hard bargaining
- Cross-cultural bargaining, negotiation, and conflict resolution
- Negotiating with an untrustworthy counterparty
Other topics will also be considered if they fit within the conference's themes of negotiation, bargaining, mediation, arbitration, or conflict resolution.