Trust plays a central role in organizational life. It facilitates exchanges among individuals, enhances cooperation and coordination, and contributes to more effective relationships. This volume brings together a cross-disciplinary group of contributors to present some of the latest, most exciting conceptual perspectives in the field and to demonstrate a variety of new methodological approaches to the study of trust. It includes discussions on: the psychological and social antecedents of trust; the effects of social and organizational structures on trust; and the broad effects of trust on organizational functioning.

Micro-OB and the Network Organization

Micro-OB and the Network Organization

Micro-OB and the network organization
Blair H.Sheppard, MariaTuchinsky

Untermyer: Is not commercial credit based primarily upon money or property?

Morgan: No, sir, the first thing is character.

Untermyer: Before money or property?

Morgan: Before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it …. Because a man

I do not trust could not get money on all the bonds in Christendom.

Ron Chernow, The House of Morgan (1990)

The Emerging Role of Relations

If we are to believe the popular press and many recent authors, business is evolving so that the traditional forms of economic exchange are being complemented or replaced by a plethora of new forms. Hierarchy and market are moving aside for the boundary less firm (Tichy, 1993), the virtual organization (Byrne, 1993), and the network organization (Snow, ...

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