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Negotiation are essential in every day’s life, increasingly via electronic media. Due to a huge amount of negotiation styles, strategies, and tactics presented in the literature, it is unclear which combinations of strategies and tactics for a concrete style can be applied in (electronic) negotiations. Therefore, we conducted a systematic literature review identifying combinations of negotiation styles, strategies, and tactics in electronic negotiations. The findings were consolidated into a taxonomy and patterns of the combinations were generated.
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Meyer, M., Schoop, M. (2023). Taxonomy of Styles, Strategies, and Tactics in E-Negotiations. In: Maemura, Y., Horita, M., Fang, L., Zaraté, P. (eds) Group Decision and Negotiation in the Era of Multimodal Interactions. GDN 2023. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 478. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33780-2_1
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