FINTnews No. 20, May 2009
The Electronic Newsletter of the First International Network on Trust
Table of Contents:
1. ABOUT FINT 1
2. CALL FOR PAPERS: 5th workshop on ‘Trust within and between Organizations’ 1
3. NEW! JOURNAL OF TRUST RESEARCH! 4
4. CONFERENCE: Organizational Change, Identity, and Legitimation 5
5. CALL FOR PAPERS: Social Trust workshop 6
6. CONFERENCE: Trust Culture and Gender 8
7. AWARDS 8
8. 35% BOOK DISCOUNTS! 8
9. PEOPLE ON THE MOVE! 10
10. RECENT DOCTORATES IN TRUST-RELATED RESEARCH 10
11. BOOK REVIEWS: Trust and New Technologies 10
12. NEW BOOKS 12
13. NEW BOOK: Transforming Kibbutz Research 12
14. NEW! MEMBER SUBMITTED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS 13
15. DATABASE SEARCH FOR ARTICLES ON TRUST 13
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1. ABOUT FINT
FINT (First International Network on Trust ) is an international group of academics and practitioners, who are interested in the study of trust. Besides FINTnews, the FINT newsletter, and the FINTwebsite (currently out of commission), we also have a biannual EIASM Workshop on Trust in Amsterdam (See below next workshop in January, 2010).
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FINT Membership: If you have an interest in trust research, you are invited to join FINT and get free access to our resources website. To join please send an email to Roxanne Zolin at . We'll send you a short questionnaire and instructions to access the website.
Roxanne Zolin
Editor FINTnews
2. CALL FOR PAPERS: 5th workshop on ‘Trust within and between Organizations’
Dear FINT members,
As announced in the extra FINT alert, the fifth workshop on ‘Trust within and between Organizations’ will be held in Madrid from January 28 till January 29, hosted by Jose Maria Peiro on behalf of IVIE. Deadline for abstracts is June 1, 2009. You can submit a paper in reaction to the general call for papers or to the call regarding a special theme. We proudly present the keynote speakers, the special themes and the chairs, who made this fine collection possible. We look forward to welcoming many of you to Madrid,
Also on behalf of Sim Sitkin, Katinka Bijlsma-Frankema
Fifth workshop on ‘Trust within and between Organizations’
Madrid, January 28-29 2010. For call for papers and information
activate the link (Ctr+ click)
http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=669
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERSRanjay Gulati
Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School, USA
Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa
Bayless/Rauscher Pierce Refsnes Chair in Business Administration, Information, Risk and Operations Mgmt .
University of Texas at Austin, USA
Denise M. Rousseau
H.J.Heinz II Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy Director, Project on Evidence-based Organizational Practices,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
SPECIAL SESSION(S) I: TRUST AND REPUTATIONS
CHAIRS:
Karen S. Cook, Department of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
Coye Cheshire, IS School, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley CA, USA
SPECIAL SESSION(S) II: TRUST AND CONTROL IN ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
CHAIRS:
Ana Cristina Costa, Brunel University of West London, London, UK.
Sabine T. Köszegi, University of Vienna, Austria
SPECIAL SESSION III: TRUST IN THE CONTEXT OF NEGOTIATION AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
CHAIRS:
Kurt Dirks, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Don Ferrin, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Deepak Malhotra, Harvard Business School, USA
SPECIAL SESSION(S) IV: THEORIZING ABOUT TRUST ACROSS CONTEXTS
CHAIRS:
Richard Priem, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, USA
Antoinette Weibel, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
Reinhard Bachmann, University of Surrey, UK
SPECIAL SESSION(S) V: TRUST AND RETRENCHMENT
CHAIRS
Aneil Mishra, Michigan State University, US
Karen Mishra, Meredith College, US
SPECIAL SESSION(S) VI: TRUST IN BUYER-SELLER RELATIONSHIPS
CHAIRS
Sandro Castaldo, Bocconi University, SDA School of Management, Milan, Italy
Fabrizio Zerbini, Bocconi University, SDA School of Management, Milan, Italy
Guido Möllering, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Köln, Germany
SPECIAL SESSION(S) VII: COOPERATION AND TRUST IN SMALL AND NEW ENTERPRISES
CHAIRS:
Matthias Fink, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria
Teemu Kautonen, University of Vaasa, Finland
SPECIAL SESSION(S) VIII: TRUST AT THE ORGANIZATIONAL LEVEL
CHAIRS:
Denise Skinner, Coventry University, UK
Nicole Gillespie, Melbourne Business School, Australia.
Rosalind Searle, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, UK
Deanne N. Den Hartog, University of Amsterdam Business School, The Netherlands
SPECIAL SESSION(S) IX : WHEN TRUST MAKES SENSE IN INTER-FIRM RELATIONS
(AND WHEN NOT)
CHAIRS:
Peter P. Li, California State University, Stanislaus, USA
Paul W.L. Vlaar, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dries Faems, University of Twente, The Netherlands
SPECIAL SESSION(S) X: TRUST WITHIN AND BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONS IN THE THIRD SECTOR AND PUBLIC SECTOR
CHAIRS :
Fergus Lyon, Middlesex University, UK
Malin Tillmar, Linköping University, Sweden
3. NEW! JOURNAL OF TRUST RESEARCH!
It is our pleasure and honor to announcement a new journal dedicated to the research on trust. The title of the new journal is Journal of Trust Research (JTR).
Editor-in-Chief
Peter Ping Li
Professor of Management
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
California State University, Stanislaus
Journal Mission It is increasingly apparent that trust is highly imperative to social interaction and cooperation at and across many levels. To understand this critical issue, the mission of JTR as a high-quality academic journal is:
· to inquire into the nature, forms, bases and roles of trust at and across interpersonal, inter-group, inter-organizational, and international levels so as to stimulate informed debate toward an accumulative and integrative knowledge via both relevant and rigorous theory-building and theory-testing
· to inform the interested public so as to encourage well-educated dialogue concerning any issues related to trust (with JTR positioned as the source journal providing novel ideas about trust for other academic as well as practical journals)
· to influence individuals, organizations, and nations seeking and implementing solutions related to trust so as to improve the practice of trust-related management
Journal Philosophy: JTR is particularly interested in those studies that are inter-disciplinary, cross-cultural, cross-level, context-rich, process-oriented, and practice-relevant in perspectives so as to effectively investigate the holistic content and dynamic process of organizational and social trust, without the perils of reductionist assumptions. JTR identifies the above as the emerging trends with great potentials to contribute to our rich and deep understanding about the complex issue of trust.
JTR aims to publish relevant and rigorous research contributing to knowledge in six major domains that are interdisciplinary and cross-cultural (including indigenous):
1. General research on trust to build an integrative framework with a common language across disciplines and across cultures
2. General research on trust at and across the levels of individual, group, organization, community, and nations
3. Specific research on trust management within and between organizations and societies
4. Specific research on interpersonal trust within and between organizations and societies
5. Specific research on institutional trust within and between organizations and societies
6. Specific research on inter-organizational and social trust within and across nations.
Journal Scope: As an inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural journal dedicated to advancing a cross-level, context-rich, process-oriented, and practice-relevant journal, JTR provides a focal point for an open debate and dialogue between diverse views, thus enhancing the rich and deep knowledge of trust in general and trust-related management issues in particular in the broadest contexts of organizations and societies. Through both theoretical development and empirical investigation, JTR seeks to open the black-box of trust in various contexts.
The primary focus of JTR is on the field of organization management, with other fields as the secondary focus.
JTR seeks to publish both conceptual and empirical articles that fall in the above six domains. Conceptual articles, whether derived inductively or deductively, should provide novel insights and broad implications. Empirical articles, whether quantitative or qualitative, should have well-articulated theoretical foundations and solid methodological designs.
The Strategic Partnership between JTR and FINT
First International Network on Trust (FINT) is a special institutional member of the advisory board of JTR. FINT is informally affiliated with JTR for an exclusive strategic partnership in terms of a marketing alliance. The specifics of the strategic partnership include:
· FINT is represented on the Advisory Board of JTR as an institutional advisor
· JTR will be represented in the near future on the Advisory Board of FINT when FINT is formalized as an association with its board
· FINT newsletter will set up a specialsection for JTR;
· JTR will run the advisements and announcements fromFINT free of charge
· The publisher will offer a discounted subscription rate of JTR for the members of FINT as a benefit to FINT's members;
· The fees forthe exhibition by the publisher at the FINT workshop will be waived as a returned favor for the publisher's discounted subscription and freead for FINT
· JTR will hold some ownership to transfer to FINT if and when FINT is formalized as an association to adopt JTR as its official journal
Note from the FINTnews Editor:
JTR is currently in development. Many leading trust researchers have agreed to support JTR by serving on JTR’s Editorial and Review Boards. Further announcements will be made as things develop. - Roxanne
4. CONFERENCE: Organizational Change, Identity, and Legitimation
The co-ordinators for this EGOS track believe that many of the issues they wish to address link in very well with issues of organizational reputations for trustworthiness, and to trust repair in particular. So it may be a forum for FINT members to present their work. An edited version of their call for papers follows:
In these increasingly turbulent times organizations change ever more frequently simply to stay live. Some changes are successful, but many contribute to an increase of mortality hazards for those organizations (Hannan et al., 2007). Changes disrupt operations, undermine procedures, and absorb managerial attention which, in turn, contributes to opportunity costs. The damage that structural reorganizations cause can be described, at least in part, by legitimation loss. Organizations that reorganize tend to violate people’s expectations, when their compliance with these expectations had been taken for granted by internal or external audiences. Once these norm violations are perceived, the audience may sanction them (Zuckerman, 1999), and these sanctions limit further the organization’s resource mobilizing capabilities. Another difficulty that stems from legitimation loss is that if the organization’s cultural norms and behavioral codes are no longer taken for granted, unexpected situations become a lot harder and more time-consuming to deal with. It seems obvious, therefore, that anybody who wants to manage organizational change should pay attention to the internal and external identities of organizations, and to processes of legitimation.
In this track we intend to consider papers which offer at least partial answers to the following questions:
(1) How do organizational identities and/or taken-for-granted assumptions limit the search space of management: what alternatives are not considered and for what reason?
(2) What is the (detailed) impact of reorganizations that challenge organizational identities, and reputation?
(3) What factors influence the speed of the reconstruction of taken for granted-ness of norms and operations after (major) structural reorganizations?
(4) Are there significant differences between public and private organizations in legitimation losses during reorganizations? Do reconstruction speeds differ significantly?
(5) Are there significant differences between organizations of different cultures (national, religious, etc) in legitimation losses during reorganizations? Do reconstruction speeds differ significantly?
Further details are available on the EGOS website.
References :
Hannan Michael T. László Pólos and Glenn R.Carroll (2007). The Logics of Organization Theory: Audiences Codes and Ecologies Princeton University Press.
Zuckerman, Ezra, W. (1999) “The Categorial Imperative Security analysts and the Legitimacy Discount” American Journal of Sociology 104 1398-1438
5. CALL FOR PAPERS: Social Trust workshop
Purdue University on June 15 or 16.
The one-day workshop is part of the IFIP Working Group 11 International Conference on Trust Management.
Details for the workshop are below. As you can see, it is interdisciplinary in nature. More information on the overall conference can be found at: http://projects.cerias.purdue.edu/IFIPTM/
The study of trust as a social phenomenon is both ancient and broad. Recently, the introduction of computational systems and formal models to the study has opened new ideas and tools to our methodologies and understanding of the concept. As well, trust has become a tool in social networking systems, eCommerce, gaming platforms, and other technological systems to help people using these systems to better ascertain the potential future behaviours of those with whom they propose to work or play. More often than not, these systems base their work on assumptions that are central to our understanding, or otherwise, of the workings of trust. This leads directly to questions at the heart of the social sciences. These include:
· Can we use trust as a tool for ascertaining reputation?
· Can trust be formally modeled?
· Can artificial systems ever be expected to ‘understand’ and ‘use’ trust?
· Can formal models of ‘artificial’ trust help in our understanding of ‘human’ trust?
· What are the links between trust online and trust within human relationships?
The area we call ‘Social Trust’ embodies these questions and strives for answers that marry our understanding of human trust with the artificial. There is wide-reaching research ongoing that attempts to answer these questions and more in both the social and the technical sciences.
The SocialTrust workshop, to be held at IFIPTM 2009, will bring together these researchers in a stimulating environment, with productive and challenging discussion, allied to a vibrant international conference that uses trust and trust management as the very basis of formal and implementable tools in fields as diverse as reputation, security, and privacy.
The aim of the workshop is to bring social scientists, lawyers, management scientists, and computational trust researchers together in one room to address these and other questions. The outcome will be an immediate presentation in the conference proper, work toward a journal article, and a proposal, with further work, for an edited volume dedicated to the idea of Social Trust as a Computational phenomenon. A dedicated wiki site (http://socialtrust.wikidot.com) has been set up to help disseminate ideas and grow the area. Finally, it is the intention of the workshop organizers to bring the workshop into the main conference as a track in 2010.