This research investigates the links between the negotia
tion performance, personal characteristics, and aptitudes,
for a sample of 460 purchasing agents. Negotiation perform
ance, in the adversarial sense, and buyer empathy were not
found to be important. Buyers who were motivated, satisfied
and certain of management expectations performed best. These
findings confirm earlier results by the same researchers.
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