Welcome to the Negotiation and Conflict Management Collaborative (NCMC)! We are an open and international platform dedicated to bringing together scholars and practitioners to collaborate on research and education on negotiation and conflict management.
Through collaborative research and education opportunities, NCMC aims to:
- Equip individuals and organisations with evidence-based negotiation and conflict management insights.
- Reduce social and economic inequality through negotiation and conflict management empowerment.
- Foster theoretically innovative and practically useful interdisciplinary collaborations.
- Offer a global perspective on negotiation and conflict management dynamics.
- Connect a global community motivated to advance win-win and sustainable methods of negotiation and conflict management.
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Our impact at a glance

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No. of students who attended INSEAD negotiation class
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No. of contributing faculty & studentsIn the Spotlight

Our New Team Member
Prottay Hasan is an alumnus of INSEAD Master in Management programme.
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Our Postdoctoral Fellow
Polly Kang is a behavioral scientist who theorizes and tests how affect and emotions shape behaviors and outcomes related to motivation.
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37th Annual IACM
The 37th annual conference of IACM will be hosted at INSEAD in Singapore from June 23-26, 2024.
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Pay Suppression in Social Impact Contexts
Past research suggests that when organizations communicate the benefits of their work for human welfare - that is, use a social impact framing for work - job candidates are willing to accept lower wages because they expect the work to be personally meaningful.
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Negotiation Impasses: Types, Causes, and Resolutions
Although impasses are frequently experienced by negotiators, are featured in newspaper articles, and are reflected in online searches and can be costly, negotiation scholarship does not appear to consider them seriously as phenomena worth explaining.
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Hierarchical Team Structures Limit Joint Gain in Interteam Negotiations
Contributions to the literatures on team negotiations, interteam collaboration, and hierarchical differences within teams are discussed in this article.
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Setting the Stage for Negotiations
The presence of teams in negotiations can undermine trust, fuel competitive strategies and lower joint gain. This research examines when and how structured superordinate goal dialogues between teams prior to negotiation facilitate trust and joint gain.
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The Impact of Concession Patterns on Negotiations
This research proposes that making a series of decreasing concessions signals that negotiators are reaching their limit and that this results in a negotiation disadvantage for offer recipients.
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Practice briefing - negotiation strategies and their impact on real estate investment disposal processes
The article aims to provide real estate professionals and negotiators with a superior understanding of negotiation process design to maximise real estate disposition outcomes.
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Why Employees Accept Lower Pay at Mission-Oriented Companies
Job candidates should invest in building their negotiation skills so they are less thrown off when companies use social impact framing.
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Stop Labelling Negotiations as Win-Win or Win-Lose
Too many people have an either naïve or fatalist view of these terms, which have become so misunderstood that we should perhaps even discard them.
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Negotiating With a Team? Skip the Chit-Chat
Team negotiators may achieve higher joint gains when they first discuss superordinate goals that either team can’t achieve without the help of the other.
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Negotiation Course for the World
The "Negotiation Course for the World" project is the materialisation of decades of work to help develop a more collaborative and harmonious global future.
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Immersive Learning
The Spiral Flow is a cutting-edge negotiation case using VR technology.
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Negotiation Dynamics
Develop your negotiation skills
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Negotiation Fundamentals
Learn key negotiation concepts and skills
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Strategic Negotiations
Become a more strategic negotiator
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Certificates in Negotiation
INSEAD Online Certificate and Advanced Certificate in Negotiation
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Books
