商务谈判论文英语

The influence of Chinese-western Cultural Differences in Business Negotiation

ABSTRACT

It has been more than 30 years since the policy of reforming and opening was carried out. The international business activities got more and more showing. The results of whether the negotiation achieved or not impacted the foreign trade directly, but the results always depended upon many factors: economic basis, political background, enterprise capacity, providing and competing of the markets. But there was a very important factor behind those factors. It was culture factors. With the economic globalization and the frequent business contacts, cultural differences seem to be very important; otherwise they could cause unnecessary misunderstanding, even affect the result of the business

negotiations. If you want to succeed in negotiation, you must dig the culture differences.

The purpose of writing was to stress the splendid culture factors which are neglected in the past. By excavating the unity and diversity of culture factors, we advanced step by step to evident the great impact of culture factors for international business negotiation. The point innovation was to give specific impact from the specific difference, other paper was not. The ultimate goal of this thesis was to provide the theoretical evidences for those negotiations who pay more attention to the culture factors when they began to negotiate.

Key Words:

business negotiation, cultural difference, the influence The influence of Chinese-western Cultural Differences

in Business Negotiation

Culture is an abstract concept, it refer to all aspects of human life,

including belief, art, knowledge, morals, convention, etc. Culture consist of two factors-material culture and mental culture. Science culture and humanism culture form the

mental culture. And the humanism culture always refer to ethnic culture. The living environment effect human’s behavior unconsc iously from one’s birth even not yet born. The first function of culture is to make man a human being, It is culture that regulates his conduct and prepares him for group life. It teaches him the art of living as per the cultural traits of the group. He takes the food, wears the clothes, goes to school, speaks the language and does so many other little things of day-to-day life which are a part of the conventional norms, mores, laws, customs and morals of the group. The culture of a group plays a major part in the heightening human qualities of its individuals and save them from avoiding participation in the cultural stream.

The second important role of culture is to keep social relationship intact so that the group as a whole can maintain and develop the values and ideals of the group through the regulation of behaviors of its members and by satisfying their primary needs and objectives in respect of the necessities and luxuries of life . People learn to behave socially in a group because their behavior is subject to approval or disapproval.

Here are some specific effects below, including the political system, thinking mode, different values and belief,