Trust within and between Organizations

Conceptual Issues and Empirical Applications

Edited by Christel Lane and Reinhard Bachmann

Trust within and between Organizations

Conceptual Issues and Empirical Applications

Edited by Christel Lane and Reinhard Bachmann

Description

This original book is the first to offer a wide-ranging study of trust within and between organizations from the perspective of several social and management sciences. The specially commissioned contributions, many from well-known experts combine theoretical analysis of problems around trust with empirical study in a range of different organizations in contexts such as China, Japan, India, the US, as well as several European countries. The wide theoretical scope, together with the range of organizational settings and the rich empirical detail of behavior around trust and opportunism, make this an important and instructive volume.

Trust within and between Organizations

Conceptual Issues and Empirical Applications

Edited by Christel Lane and Reinhard Bachmann

Introduction: Theories and Issues in the Study of Trust, Christel Lane
1. Understanding the Constitution of Interorganizational Trust, Joerg Sydow
2. Distinguishing Trust and Power in Interorganizational Relations: Forms and Facades of Trust, Cynthia Hardy, Nelson Phillips, and Tom Lawrence
3. Does Trust Improve Business Performance?, Mari Sako
4. From Handshake to Contract: Intellectual Property, Trust, and the Social Structure of Academic Research, Julia Porter Liebeskind and Amalya Oliver-Lumerman
5. Contract Law and the Institutional Reproduction of Trust, Simon Deakin and Frank Wilkinson
6. Understanding the Role of Inter-Firm Institutions in Sustaining Trust within the Employment Relationship, David Marsden
7. Lack of Trust, Surfeit of Trust: Some Causes of the Innovation Crisis in German Industry, Horst Kern
8. Trust and the Transformation of Supplier Relations in Indian Industry, John Humphrey
9. Trust and International Strategic Alliances: the Case of Sino-Foreign Joint Ventures, John Child
10. Trust, Morality, and International Business, George Brenkert
Conclusion, Reinhard Bachmann