Edited by Reinhard Bachmann, Professor of International Management, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK and Akbar Zaheer, Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Strategic Management, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, US

'This Handbook helps scholars account for more nuances and complications of the phenomenon of trust. But it is also a firm, intelligent reminder not to mutilate the phenomenon while crafting those accounts.'

• Contents:IntroductionReinhard Bachmann and Akbar ZaheerPART I: MICRO OR INDIVIDUAL LEVEL1. Three Fundamental Questions Regarding Trust in Leaders Kurt T. Dirks2. Reflections on an Initial Trust-Building ModelD. Harrison McKnight and Norman L. Chervany3. Can Groups be Trusted? An Experimental Study of Trust in Collective EntitiesBill McEvily, Roberto A. Weber, Cristina Bicchieri and Violet T. Ho4. Trust as Situated Cognition: An Ecological Perspective on Trust DecisionsRoderick M. KramerPART II: ORGANIZATIONAL OR INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LEVEL5. Trust in the Balance: How Managers Integrate Trust-Building and Task ControlChris P. Long and Sim B. Sitkin6. Opportunism, Trust and Knowledge: The Management of Firm Value and the Value of Firm ManagementAnoop Madhok7. Trust, Transaction Cost Economics, and MechanismsPhilip Bromiley and Jared Harris8. Relying on Trust in Cooperative Inter-Organizational RelationshipsAndrew H. Van de Ven and Peter Smith Ring9. The Dark Side of TrustMartin Gargiulo and Gokhan Ertug10. Trust, Codification and Epistemic Communities: Implementing an Expert System in the French Steel IndustryRichard Arena, Nathalie Lazaric and Edward Lorenz11. Trust Attitudes, Network Tightness and Organizational Survival: An Integrative Framework and Simulation ModelArjen van Witteloostuijn and Marc van Wegberg12. Learning About Contracts: Trust, Cooperation and Contract LawSimon DeakinPART III: CROSS-LEVEL APPROACHES13. On the Complexity of Organizational Trust: A Multi-Level Co-Evolutionary Perspective and Guidelines for Future ResearchSteven C. Currall and Andrew C. Inkpen14. Forms, Sources and Processes of TrustBart Nooteboom15. Levels of Inter-Organizational Trust: Conceptualization and MeasurementMartyna Janowicz and Niels Noorderhaven16. Does Trust Still Matter? Research on the Role of Trust in Inter-Organizational ExchangeBill McEvily and Akbar ZaheerPART IV: TRUST AT THE LEVEL OF SOCIETY AND THE ECONOMY17. An Ethical Analysis of the Trust RelationshipSanjay Banerjee, Norman E. Bowie and Carla Pavone18. Trust and MarketsJens Beckert19. The Economics of TrustMark Casson and Marina Della Giusta20. Trust, Institutions, Agency: Towards a Neoinstitutional Theory of TrustGuido Möllering21. How Can Systems Trust Systems? A Structuration Perspective on Trust-Building in Inter-Organizational RelationsJörg Sydow22. Trust and/or Power: Towards a Sociological Theory of Organizational RelationshipsReinhard BachmannIndex