Are you interested in Trust and Distrust at the interface of group and national differences? We are excited to invite you join our international panel for an interactive Academy Theme session on
Up, Down and Sideways Approaches to Building Trust and Dispelling Distrust Across National Boundaries.
Sponsor(s): (ATT, CM, OB)
Scheduled: Sunday, August 6th 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM – Hyatt Spring Room
Presenter: Deepak Malhotra, Harvard Business School
Presenter: Roy James Lewicki, The Ohio State U.
Presenter: Sim B. Sitkin, Duke U.
Presenter: Rosalind Searle, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry U.
Presenter: Antoinette Weibel, U. of St. Gallen
Presenter: Nicole Gillespie, U. of Queensland
Presenter: Roger C. Mayer, North Carolina State U.
Facilitator: Michele Williams, U. of Iowa
Tweet: #BuildTrust17
Abstract:
National boundaries are often the lines in the sand between the trusted "us" and the distrusted "them." Alternatively, national boundaries can be transformed into sites of collaboration and bridges that bring people together.
In a time when people around the globe are reinforcing boundaries, we bring together a renowned panel of trust scholars to engage the audience in a discussion of ways to build trust and reverse spirals of distrust across national boundaries. We will debate and integrate top-down versus bottom-up versus sideways approaches.
Some panelists will argue for bottom up approaches such as building cross-national understanding among employees, whereas others will advocate for the top-down approaches embodied in contracts and control systems that undermine distrust and ensure calculative trust. A third group will argue for sideways mechanisms such as those present in the gig economy and available through cross-sector and research collaborations. We will conclude by integrating these approaches and by highlighting new avenues of scholarship that have emerged from current global trends, such as trust in firms as political actors.
But the discussion will not end there. It will continue on social media with our partners, The LSE Business Review blog in the UK and beBee, headquartered in Spain, who will help us reach out to their broader global audience. Using social media (before, during and after) this session will engage people across continents and highlight the important partnership between management scholars and business leaders, policymakers and the general public.
Best Regards,
Michele Williams