Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Trust plays a central role in organizational life. It facilitates exchanges among individuals, enhances cooperation and coordination, and contributes to more effective relationships. This volume brings together a cross-disciplinary group of contributors to present some of the latest, most exciting conceptual perspectives in the field and to demonstrate a variety of new methodological approaches to the study of trust. It includes discussions on: the psychological and social antecedents of trust; the effects of social and organizational structures on trust; and the broad effects of trust on organizational functioning.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Whither Trust?
• Trust in Organizations
• A Conceptual Framework Linking Organizational Forms, Managerial Philosophies and the Opportunity Costs of Controls
• Trust and Technology
• Trust-Based Forms of Governance
• Trust and Third-Party Gossip
• Collaboration Structure and Information Dilemmas in Biotechnology
• Interpersonal and Organizational Boundaries as Trust Production
• Developing and Maintaining Trust in Work Relationships
• Micro OB and the Network Organization
• Swift Trust in Temporary Groups
• The Road to Hell
• The Dynamics of Distrust in an Era of Quality
• Divergent Realities and Convergent Disappointments in the Hierarchical Relation
• Trust and the Intuitive Auditor at Work
• Beyond Distrust
• Getting Even and the Need for Revenge
• Organizational Responses to Crisis
• The Centrality of Trust
• Trust and Crisis
• The Organizational Trust Inventory (OTI)
• Development and Validation
• Trust in Organizational Authorities
• The Influence of Motive Attributions on Willingness to Accept Decisions
• Collective Trust and Collective Action
• The Decision to Trust as a Social Decision
• Understanding the Interaction between Procedural and Distributive Justice
• The Role of Trust