Scholars
in economics, finance and related fields have
had for some time now an online system and network
for posting and sharing working papers. This system,
called Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
is now expanding to include other social sciences,
and scholars in field of conflict and negotiation
are starting to delineate a new corner of the
system.
A consortium of scholars led by Harvard's Program
on Negotiation (PON) and including members of
the Academy of Management's Conflict Management
Division and International Association for Conflict
Management have been working to get the new system
up and running. By early 2002 the group expects
to have in place the means for all of us to post
and share working papers and abstracts through
this system.
SSRN
is a network that was developed for rapid worldwide
dissemination of social science research. It is
composed of a number of specialized research networks
in each of the social sciences (accounting, economics,
financial economics, law and management). For
negotiations and conflict resolution, which is
part of the management network, the field has
been categorized into the following sub-areas,
called abstracting journals: two-party negotiations,
negotiation processes and communications, decision-making,
justice, multiparty negotiations, third party
intervention, conflict and dispute resolution,
culture and conflict and negotiation applications.
For
more information, visit the SSRN website at http://ssrn.com/index.html.
