{"id":27313,"date":"2022-02-17T14:51:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T19:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/?page_id=27313"},"modified":"2022-02-19T09:15:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T14:15:08","slug":"ch02","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/ch02\/","title":{"rendered":"Ch.02 – ADR in Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:31px;margin-left:0px;\"><h2 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\">Ch.02 – ADR in Business<\/h2><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#e0dede;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Many private sector commercial firms favor using ADR in order to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maintain or improve business relationships with clients, suppliers, employees, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Achieve\u00a0outcomes\u00a0considered\u00a0fair or that make\u00a0business sense<\/li>\n<li>Reduce the overall cost associated with the dispute process<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These goals and outcomes have been the subject of academic studies and surveys. The American Arbitration Association, for example, studied corporate attitudes regarding the use of arbitration and mediation, and published its findings in a report entitled Dispute-Wise Business Management: Improving Economic and Non-Economic Outcomes in Managing Business Conflicts (2006).\u00a0 A Harris Poll sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce\u00a0yielded similar attitudes regarding arbitration that\u00a0were published\u00a0in a report called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ArbitrationStudyFinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arbitration: Simpler, Cheaper, and Faster than Litigation<\/a> (2005).<\/p>\n<p>Parties to a federal contract or business transaction also are concerned about outcomes, time, and resources relating to protests or contract disputes.\u00a0 Rather than merely focusing on the bottom line of a balance sheet,\u00a0the federal contracting community may find that\u00a0compliance with agency policy or regulations requires serious consideration of using ADR.\u00a0\u00a0Further,\u00a0the\u00a0mission of the agency or office might\u00a0be achieved best through a negotiated solution that goes beyond what a court or agency board can order in the adjudication process.\u00a0\u00a0Business-sense means mission-sense\u00a0more often than not.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27194,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27313\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}