Akbar Zaheer – författare

The Handbook of Advances in Trust Research presents new and important developments in trust research.The contributors are all prominent and highly respected experts in the field. Firstly, they provide a contemporary overview of the most crucial issues in current trust research including contracts, innovation and negotiation, trust and control. Thereafter, themes which have gained prominence since the original Handbook are considered, such as trust and the financial crisis, public trust in business, and trust and HRM. The book also explores recent theoretical advances and points the way for future research on trust.The Handbook contributes to an area of key importance to business and society and will appeal to practitioners and students of organization theory, strategy, sociology, organizational psychology and economics.Contributors: R. Bachmann, K.T. Dirks, N. Gillespie, T. Gubler, J.D. Harris, R. Hurley, A.A.C. Keevil, F. Kroeger, R.J. Lewicki, P.P. Li, G. Möllering, J. Nickerson, B. Nooteboom, B. Polin, L. Poppo, R.H. Searle, F. Six, P.W.L. Vlaar, A. Weibel, A.C. Wicks, A. Zaheer

The Handbook of Advances in Trust Research presents new and important developments in trust research.The contributors are all prominent and highly respected experts in the field. Firstly, they provide a contemporary overview of the most crucial issues in current trust research including contracts, innovation and negotiation, trust and control. Thereafter, themes which have gained prominence since the original Handbook are considered, such as trust and the financial crisis, public trust in business, and trust and HRM. The book also explores recent theoretical advances and points the way for future research on trust.The Handbook contributes to an area of key importance to business and society and will appeal to practitioners and students of organization theory, strategy, sociology, organizational psychology and economics.Contributors: R. Bachmann, K.T. Dirks, N. Gillespie, T. Gubler, J.D. Harris, R. Hurley, A.A.C. Keevil, F. Kroeger, R.J. Lewicki, P.P. Li, G. Möllering, J. Nickerson, B. Nooteboom, B. Polin, L. Poppo, R.H. Searle, F. Six, P.W.L. Vlaar, A. Weibel, A.C. Wicks, A. Zaheer

In recent times, research on trust has become a major field in the domain of management and in the social sciences as a whole.The Handbook of Trust Research presents a timely and comprehensive account of the most important work undertaken in this lively and emerging field over the past ten to fifteen years. Presenting a broad range of approaches to issues on trust, the Handbook features 22 articles from a variety of disciplines on the study of trust in both organizational and societal contexts. With contributions from some of the most eminent names in the field of trust research, this international collaboration is an imaginative and informative reference tool to aid research in this engaging area for years to come. The Handbook contributes to an area of key importance to almost every aspect of business and society and, in particular, it will appeal to students and scholars of organization theory, strategy and organizational psychology.

This important two-volume set presents the most influential papers published in the field of trust research since the early 1960s. It reflects the key ideas on trust which have developed in various disciplines, including management studies, social psychology, organizational sociology and economics. The many topics covered include the foundations of trust research, the role of trust in economic exchange and trust as a fundamental social coordination mechanism. This reference collection will be invaluable to scholars wishing to keep abreast of progress in this most exciting and rapidly growing field.