In recent times, research on trust has become a major field in the domain of management and in the social sciences as a whole. "The Handbook of Trust Research" presents a timely and comprehensive account of the most important work undertaken in this lively and emerging field over the past ten to fifteen years. Presenting a broad range of approaches to issues on trust, the Handbook features 22 articles from a variety of disciplines on the study of trust in both organizational and societal contexts. With contributions from some of the most eminent names in the field of trust research, this international collaboration is an imaginative and informative reference tool to aid research in this engaging area for years to come. The Handbook contributes to an area of key importance to almost every aspect of business and society and, in particular, it will appeal to students and scholars of organization theory, strategy and organizational psychology.
Three fundamental questions regarding trust in leaders by Kurt T. Dirks 15
2 Reflections on an initial trust-building model by D. Harrison McKnight and Norman L. Chervany 29
3 Can groups be trusted? : an experimental study of trust in collective entities by Bill McEvily and Roberto A. Weber and Cristina Bicchieri and Violet T. Ho 52
4 Trust as situated cognition : an ecological perspective on trust decisions by Roderick M. Kramer 68
5 Trust in the balance : how managers integrate trust-building and task control by Chris P. Long and Sim B. Sitkin 87
6 Opportunism, trust and knowledge : the management of firm value and the value of firm management by Anoop Madhok 107
7 Trust, transaction cost economics, and mechanisms by Philip Bromiley and Jared Harris 124
8 Relying on trust in cooperative inter-organizational relationships by Andrew H. Van de Ven and Peter Smith Ring 144
9 The dark side of trust by Martin Gargiulo and Gokhan Ertug 165
10 Trust, codification and epistemic communities : implementing an expert system in the French steel industry by Richard Arena and Nathalie Lazaric and Edward Lorenz 187
11 Trust attitudes, network tightness and organizational survival : an integrative framework and simulation model by Arjen van Witteloostuijn and Marc van Wegberg 199
12 Learning about contracts : trust, cooperation and contract law by Simon Deakin 218
13 On the complexity of organizational trust : a multi-level co-evolutionary perspective and guidelines for future research by Steven C. Currall and Andrew C. Inkpen 235
14 Forms, sources and processes of trust by Bart Nooteboom 247
15 Levels of inter-organizational trust : conceptualization and measurement by Martyna Janowicz and Niels Noorderhaven 264
16 Does trust still matter? : research on the role of trust in inter-organizational exchange by Bill McEvily and Akbar Zaheer 280
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