How Valid Is Negotiation Research Based on Student Sample Groups? New Insights into a Long-Standing Controversy

Negotiation Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 147-170

  Herbst, Uta ^a   Schwarz, Sabine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Experience; Expertise; General sample applicability; Negotiation; Practitioner sample; Student sample

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954627714     PISSN: 07484526     EISSN: 15719979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1571-9979.2011.00300.x     Document Type: Article

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