4TH WORKSHOP 'TRUST WITHIN AND BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONS'
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, OCTOBER 25-6 2007
CHAIRS:
Katinka Bijlsma-Frankema
Professor of Organization Sciences at EIASM
Associate professor of Organization Theory
Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
KM.Bijlsma@fsw.vu.nl
Sim Sitkin
Professor of Management and
Faculty Director Center of Leadership and Ethics
Fuqua School of Business Duke University
Durham NC, USA
sim.sitkin@duke.edu
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS
Karen Cook
Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology
Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
Don Ferrin
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Aks Zaheer
Curtis L. Carlson Professor of
Strategic Management & Organization
Director Strategic Management Research Centre
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
BACKGROUND
In the past decade, issues of trust in inter- and intra-organizational relationships have been increasing in importance on the agendas of organizational scholars, legitimated by changes in the social structure of societies, economic exchange relations and organizational forms. Due to deterioration in the binding power of reciprocal obligations, of hierarchical relations and of social institutions relying on hierarchy to sanction deviant behavior, other mechanisms seem to be required to support co-operative behavior in interactions. Within firms, lateral relationships and alliances are growing in importance, while new linkages between firms are being formed to achieve and maintain competitive advantage in the marketplace. In network forms and alliances, organizational performance becomes increasingly dependent on trustful relations between individuals and groups. A related development is the globalization and virtualization of markets and relations within and between organizations. Emerging 'new communities' like virtual teams and global business networks may bring new problems and related trust requirements that permanently challenge current insights within the field.
By establishing an international forum for scholars from different disciplines, the workshop series seeks to make a contribution to the development of an international research program on 'Trust within and between Organizations.' The first three Amsterdam workshops on this theme, organized in 2001, 2003 and 2005, each succeeded in bringing together scholars from over 20 countries and a wide range of disciplines, such as economics, marketing, work and organization psychology, sociology of organizations, political sciences, information sciences and linguistics. At the first workshop, the participants decided to organize themselves in FINT, the First International Network on Trust. FINT aims to further international cooperation in trust theory and research (for membership, mail to
rvzolin@nps.edu <mailto:
rvzolin@nps.edu> ).
FINT members have since organized tracks on trust at 2002 and 2003 EURAM conferences, 2004 till 2007 EGOS colloquia, and symposia at the Academy of Management 2002 and 2005 meetings. FINT actively aims to further publications on trust, preferably co-authored by scholars from different countries. Workshop- and track papers have been brought together in special issues on trust of Personnel Review (2003, vol 32, 5), Journal of Managerial Psychology (2004, vol 19, 6) and Strategic Change (2005), an edited volume on 'Trust under pressure (Edward Elgar, 2005) and special issues on 'Trust and control' of International Sociology (2005) and Group and Organization Management (in press).
CALL FOR PAPERS
Trust scholars are invited to help make this workshop an inspiring event by submitting an abstract on any topic within the broad field of 'Trust within and between organizations.' The expansion of trust research and the variety of topics studied by scholars nowadays makes us look forward to meet you again or to meet you anew, curious after ideas, arguments and findings you will bring to the table. We will organize the submissions in thematic sessions, dependent on the themes covered by the papers. Next to this general call for papers, there are nine calls for contributions to special theme sessions, all very worthy of the special attention proposed:
I: THE CREATION, MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR OF TRUST WITHIN ORGANIZATIONS
CHAIRS: Kurt T. Dirks, Olin School of Business, University of Washington in St Louis, USA
Roy J. Lewicki, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
II: THE EVOLUTION OF TRUST AND DISTRUST IN INTERORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
CHAIRS: Paul W.L. Vlaar, RSM Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Dries Faems, Catholic University Leuven, Research Centre for Organisation Studies.
Anoop Madhok, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto
III "MANAGING TRUST IN BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS: OVERCOMING TRUST FAILURE
CHAIRS: Sandro Castaldo, SDA School of Management Bocconi University
Fabrizio Zerbini, SDA School of Management Bocconi University
IV: TRUST OR DISTRUST IN ENTREPRENEURIAL RELATIONS
CHAIRS: Roxanne Zolin, Naval Postgraduate University, Monterey, CA.
Tom Elfring, Free University Amsterdam
V: TOWARD A SYSTEMATIC UNDERSTANDING OF TRUST AND BOUNDARIES
CHAIRS: Guido Möllering, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Köln, Germany
Don Ferrin, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Nicole Gillespie, University of Warwick, UK
VI: MISALLOCATED TRUST, CAUSES, PROCESSES AND CONSEQUENCES
CHAIRS : Richard Priem, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Antoinette Weibel, University of Zurich, Switzerland
VII: TRUST AND SOCIAL CAPITAL
CHAIRS: Denise Rousseau, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, USA
Jose Maria Peiro, University of Valencia, Spain
VIII: TRUST AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
CHAIRS: Teemu Kautonen, University of Vaasa , Finland
Heikki Karjaluoto, University of Oulu, Finland
IX: TRUST AND HRM
CHAIRS; Rosalind Searle, Open University, UK
Denise Skinner, Coventry University, UK
X: TRUST IN THE CONTEXTS OF PROFESSIONAL WORK
CHAIRS : Keith Jackson, SOAS - University of London, UK
Gerhard Smid, SIOO, Interuniversity Center for Organization Studies and Change management, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Authors are requested to upload an 800-1000 words abstract of their work by May 21 2007. By June 20 they will receive a notification of acceptance/rejection. Final papers of 6.000-10.000 words and 1,5 spacing should be uploaded at the EIASM website by September 24 2007.
The following information is required in the abstract:
- Title of paper.
- Name, academic affiliation(s) and address of author(s).
- E-mail address of each author.
At the workshop, moreover, two core members of FINT, Guido Möllering and Fergus Lyon, will organize a panel session on 'TRUST AND RESEARCH METHODS,' an interactive session about which participants of the workshop will hear in due course.
More information and the texts of the call for papers for the special sessions can be found at:
http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=495 <http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=495>
It is hoped that at the workshop further exchanging of theoretical ideas, research methods and findings will produce new exciting knowledge, new forms of collaboration, and new publications!