Trust within and between Organizations Conceptual Issues and Empirical Applications

by Lane, Christel; Bachmann, Reinhard

• ISBN13: 9780198293187
• ISBN10: 0198293186
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-08-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	ix
Notes on Contributors	xi
Introduction: Theories and Issues in the Study of Trust	1	(30)
Christel Lane
Understanding the Constitution of Interorganizational Trust	31	(33)
Jorg Sydow
Distinguishing Trust and Power in Interorganizational Relations: Forms and Facades of Trust	64	(24)
Cynthia Hardy
Nelson Phillips
Tom Lawrence
Does Trust Improve Business Performance?	88	(30)
Mari Sako
From Handshake to Contract: Intellectual Property, Trust, and the Social Structure of Academic Research	118	(28)
Julia Porter Liebeskind
Amalya Lumerman Oliver
Contract Law and the Economics of Interorganizational Trust	146	(27)
Simon Deakin
Frank Wilkinson
Understanding the Role of Interfirm Institutions in Sustaining Trust within the Employment Relationship	173	(30)
David Marsden
Lack of Trust, Surfeit of Trust: Some Causes of the Innovation Crisis in Germany Industry	203	(11)
Horst Kern
Trust and the Transformation of Supplier Relations in Indian Industry	214	(27)
John Humphrey
Trust and International Strategic Alliances: The Case of Sino-Foreign Joint Ventures	241	(32)
John Child
Trust, Morality and International Business	273	(25)
George G. Brenkert
Conclusion: Trust-Conceptual Aspects of a Complex Phenomenon	298	(25)
Reinhard Bachmann
Index	323