Vidar Schei

Candidate for Representative at Large on IACM Board - 2012 Elections

Vidar Schei is an Associate Professor of Management at the NHH Norwegian School of Economics. NHH is the leading business school in Norway, and Vidar holds a PhD from the Department of Strategy and Management. He has been a visiting professor at Department of Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Amsterdam.

Vidar’s research interests are negotiation, conflict management, team processes, creativity, and culture. In particular, he has examined the effects of mixed social motives in negotiation – i.e. if cooperators and individualists can work constructively together. Although his main approach has been experimental, he more and more sees the beauty of qualitative research.

His work has been published in outlets such as Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Applied Psychology, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Journal of Managerial Psychology and International Journal of Conflict Management. Recently, he also took part in former IACM president Michele J. Gelfand’s study on social norms across cultures, which appeared in Science.

Vidar has been an active member of IACM, attending eight conferences. He received IACM’s Outstanding Dissertation Award in 2000, and got a national research prize for young researchers. He has also received several teaching awards from NHH and the Department of Strategy and Management. Vidar lives outside Bergen on the western coast of Norway. When he doesn’t work, Vidar likes almost any kind of sport, and enjoy watching chess (although he doesn’t play himself!) when his favourite player and world no. 1, Magnus Carlsen, is participating.