Dear Colleagues
I would like to draw your attention to the 4th Workshop on Trust Within
and Between Organizations. 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. This years workshop is chaired by
Katinka Bijlsma and Sim Sitkin. Guest Speakers of the workshop are:
Karen Cook, Don Ferrin and Aks Zaheer.
More details on the workshop and the call for papers can be found on:
http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=495*//*
Please apologize for cross-postings. Looking forward to seeing you there.
Antoinette Weibel
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Dr. Antoinette Weibel
IOU Universitaet Zuerich
Plattenstrasse 14
8032 Zuerich
Tel. +41 44 634 2919
Mail:
antoinette.weibel@iou.unizh.ch
http://www.iou.unizh.ch/orga/weibel.htm
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