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Zusatztext An excellent and comprehensive approach to the study of trust. The book offers a wide and well argued series of articles on trust and the degree to which it affects business effectiveness. An excellent treatment of the subject with some interesting lessons for those academics, consultants and practicioners who think that there is only one viable model of interfirm relationship. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Trust has become a much discussed, and sought-after, resource in the current business environment. The contributors to this volume shed new light on the role trust can play in and between organizations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Theories and Issues in the Study of Trust 1: Joerg Sydow: Understanding the Constitution of Interorganizational Trust 2: Cynthia Hardy, Nelson Phillips, and Tom Lawrence: Distinguishing Trust and Power in Interorganizational Relations: Forms and Facades of Trust 3: Mari Sako: Does Trust Improve Business Performance? 4: Julia Porter Liebeskind and Amalya Oliver-Lumerman: From Handshake to Contract: Intellectual Property, Trust, and the Social Structure of Academic Research 5: Simon Deakin and Frank Wilkinson: Contract Law and the Institutional Reproduction of Trust 6: David Marsden: Understanding the Role of Inter-Firm Institutions in Sustaining Trust within the Employment Relationship 7: Horst Kern: Lack of Trust, Surfeit of Trust: Some Causes of the Innovation Crisis in German Industry 8: John Humphrey: Trust and the Transformation of Supplier Relations in Indian Industry 9: John Child: Trust and International Strategic Alliances: the Case of Sino-Foreign Joint Ventures 10: George Brenkert: Trust, Morality, and International Business Conclusion ...
