Developing and validating an international business negotiator's profile: The China context

Reports on the development and the validation of a measurement scale of International Business Negotiators (IBNs), derived from the literature and confirmed byself-perceptions of Chinese business negotiators. Following a qualitative approach, the authors analyzed literature based on prior works in international business negotiations, cross-cultural management, international business executives, and Sino-Western business negotiations, to derive themes and items for developing an IBNs measurement scale. The key-informant method was used to survey Chinese business negotiators (N₁=92, N₂ =478) for operationalizing the IBNs scale. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, as well as structural equation modeling analysis, were carried out to examine and to validate factor structures, internal consistency, unidimensionality and the construct validity of the IBNs. The results justify a ten-factor IBNs scale with significant psychometric properties.