The Electronic Newsletter of the First International Network on Trust

FINTnews No. 29, September 2012

The Electronic Newsletter of the First International Network on Trust

Table of Contents:

1. ABOUT FINT 1

2. JOURNAL OF TRUST RESEARCH SPECIAL ISSUE ON CALCULATIVENESS AND TRUST 1

3. SUMMIT ON RESTORING TRUST IN BUSINESS 2

4. JOURNAL OF TRUST RESEARCH FREE! 4

5. SAGE OPEN FREE! 4

6. CONFERENCE : TRUST AND AUTONOMY IN MODERN MEDICINE CFP 15 SEPTEMBER DEADLINE! 4

7. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CO-OPERATIVE MANAGEMENT SPECIAL ISSUE 5

8. CONFERENCE: EGOS 2013 AUTHORITY, PRICES AND TRUST: WITHIN AND ACROSS BOUNDARIES 7

9. HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH METHODS ON TRUST 9

10. PEOPLE ON THE MOVE 10

11. CONFERENCE: TRUST AND RECONCILIATION IN POST-CONFLICT SOCIETIES 11

12. RECENT DOCTORATES IN TRUST RESEARCH: Dr. Selin Eser Erdil 11

13. RECENT DOCTORATES IN TRUST RESEARCH: Dr. Mika Vanhala 12

14. RECENT DOCTORATES IN TRUST RESEARCH: Dr. Jörg Wiegratz 12

15. BOOK REVIEWS: Organizational Trust: A Cultural Perspective 13

16. RECENT ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS 13

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1. ABOUT FINT

FINT (First International Network on Trust ) is an international group of academics and practitioners, who are interested in the study of trust. Besides FINTnews, the FINT newsletter, and the FINTwebsite (www.FINTweb.org), we also have a biannual EIASM Workshop on Trust (next workshop in 2014).

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Roxanne Zolin

Editor FINTnews

2. JOURNAL OF TRUST RESEARCH SPECIAL ISSUE ON CALCULATIVENESS AND TRUST

Call for Papers

Journal of Trust Research

Special Issue

Williamson’s (1993) Calculativeness and Trust – 20 Years On

Special Issue Editor: Guido Möllering (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany)

About 20 years ago, when trust research started to gain momentum across many social sciences in the early 1990s, Oliver E. Williamson presented a paper at the University of Chicago Law School, which was published in 1993 as “Calculativeness, trust, and economic organization” in the Journal of Law & Economics (36 (2), 453-486).

This article became one of the most controversial contributions to trust research; it has been cited more than 470 times according to the Web of Knowledge – and keeps being cited. Even if many of the citations were not supporting Williamson’s ideas, his article has led many researchers to sharpen their own conceptualizations and operationalizations of trust.

In essence, Williamson (1993) made two strong claims that scholars have been debating ever since:

• “trust” is frequently misused for phenomena that are better explained as calculativeness;

• non-calculative “trust” is not required to explain economic organization and behavior.

Williamson has not changed his core claims. Only recently, he repeated his points at a graduate seminar at the University of California, Berkeley (see “Transaction Cost Economics: What Are the Questions?” presented in May 2012).

Journal of Trust Research invites scholars from any discipline to revisit Williamson’s core claims. We are looking for papers that support or challenge them on a theoretical or empirical basis. It is safe to say that trust has actually been included in theory building over the past 20 years and it is frequently invoked in the economic challenges and crises around the world since the last turn of the century. Hence, it is time to discuss which concepts of trust have been used and how much trust can explain.

Submitted papers should be around 4000 words in length. They will be subject to a normal double blind review process to meet the highest scholarly standards while recognizing that the articles will be more like comments or essays than like regular research reports. Accepted papers will be published in a JTR Special Issue in 2013. Williamson has been invited to write a comment on the papers, but has left it open so far whether he will be able to do so eventually.

The submission deadline is 31 December 2012. For author guidelines and further information on the Journal of Trust Research, visit the website at http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjtr20. You may also contact the editorial office (), or this special issue’s editor, Guido Möllering (), with questions or to discuss your ideas.

3. SUMMIT ON RESTORING TRUST IN BUSINESS

Building Trustworthy Organizations for Sustainable Excellence

Fordham Schools of Business and The Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics invite you to a one-day conference offering solutions to the global trust crisis. Through interactive panel discussions, presentations and keynote addresses, you will learn best practices to bridge the gap between theoretical reasoning and practical solutions to create trustworthy organizations.

Who Should Attend?
Representatives from the following functions:

· Communications & Marketing

· Compliance & Ethics

· Corporate Governance

· Corporate Social Responsibility

· Corporate Sustainability Officers

· Finance

· General Management

· HR

· Legal

Global Academics
Third-party Trust Experts

Registration

· Speaker - Free

· Summit Attendee - $197.00 (USD)

Registration is subject to host approval.

· Summit Attendee - by Invitation - Free

A registration code is required. The registration code is CASE SENSITIVE. All registrants are subject to host approval.

http://www.trustinorganizations.com/events?eventId=522215&EventViewMode=EventDetails

4. JOURNAL OF TRUST RESEARCH FREE!

- The second issue of Journal of Trust Research’s volume 1 (2011) is currently available online for free here: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjtr20/1/2.

It includes a stimulating debate between Reinhard Bachmann and Graham Dietz as well as great articles by our esteemed colleagues Ed Tomlinson, Bo Bernhard Nielsen, Roger Mayer, Philip Bobko, James Davis, and Mark B. Gavin. JTR vol. 2 iss. 2 will be published online soon.

NOTE: Journal of Trust Research 2(2) was published online today! JTR 1(2) is still available online for free.

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjtr20/2/2

5. SAGE OPEN FREE!

SAGE Open has an interesting “open access” article by Nienhueser & Hossfeld on “The Effects of Trust on the Preference for Decentralized Bargaining: An Empirical Study of Managers and Works Councillors”, http://sgo.sagepub.com/content/1/3/2158244011425691.abstract.

6. CONFERENCE : TRUST AND AUTONOMY IN MODERN MEDICINE CFP 15 SEPTEMBER DEADLINE!

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference

“Autonomy & Trust in Modern Medicine”

Göttingen (Germany), 14-15 February 2013

organised by:

Interdisciplinary Research Group “Autonomy & Trust in Modern Medicine”
funded by the Volkswagen Foundation

Coordinator: Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine

Göttingen University

Key-note speakers:

Gerald Dworkin (USA), Carolyn McLeod (Canada), Marina Oshana (USA), Alastair V. Campbell (Singapore), Michael Calnan (UK)

In liberal and individualized societies patients’ right to self-determination is rightly held in high esteem. Yet, in a highly complex world defined by scientific and technological rationalities, autonomous agency can only increase when individuals develop trust in persons and trust in systems. Since autonomy is acknowledged as a key concept in modern liberal societies, the same could be true of trust. Both are means to cope with patients’ and health care professionals’ vulnerability and insecurity that grow with the ever increasing options of modern medicine. The conference will focus on approaches that attempt to understand the meaning and relation of autonomy and trust in the medical context. From different disciplinary perspectives, we want to examine how autonomy and trust depend on each other on an individual, interrelational and collective level, how they are generated or undermined and how they are justified. In particular, we aim to explore the role of organisations and institutions – like the hospital – and collective actors – like the family or patients groups. Which role do they play regarding interpretation and realisation of trust and autonomy in medicine?

The conference will be held in Goettingen. The romantic town is famous for its old university founded in the period of Enlightenment. It has been home to celebrities like the Brothers Grimm and the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. Goettingen is situated right in the middle of Germany at about a two-hour ride from Berlin, Hamburg, or Frankfurt.

We invite presentations from philosophy, bioethics, medicine, theology, social sciences and the law on the following topics:

· Conceptual analyses of autonomy and trust and their interrelation from different disciplinary perspectives

· Theoretical and practical analyses of relational and collective forms of autonomy and trust

· Examination of the role and interplay of autonomy and trust in modern medicine with regard to specific actors (e.g. medical professionals, patients, family members, health care institutions)

· Analyses of the role of autonomy and trust in specific medical fields and situations (e.g. end-of-life decisions, reproductive medicine, palliative care, paediatrics, etc.)

· Investigations of the relation between personal trust and system trust (i.e. trust in organisations/institutions) in the context of medicine

· Approaches to specific conceptions of autonomy, e.g. “relational autonomy”, “collective autonomy” or “reproductive autonomy”

· Investigations of the role of patient organisations in modern medicine and the relation between individual autonomy and the autonomy of patient organisations as a collective

The conference language will be English. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. On special request, a limited number of travel grants (the amount depending on whether your itinerary is national, European, transatlantic) can be awarded to successful applicants.

Please send an abstract (max. 400 words) of your presentation via email by
September 15, 2012 at the latest to the coordinator of the project:

Dr Katharina Beier: (phone 0049-551-394184; fax 0049-551-399554).

Successful applicants will be informed by October 15, 2012.

For more information see www.autonomie-und-vertrauen.uni-goettingen.de/.

Dr. Katharina Beier

Projektkoordinatorin der AG "Autonomie & Vertrauen"

Abt. Ethik & Geschichte der Medizin

Humboldtallee 36

37073 Göttingen

phone: +49 551 394184

fax: +49 551 399554

http://www.egmed.uni-goettingen.de/index.php?id=96

http://www.autonomie-und-vertrauen.uni-goettingen.de

7. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CO-OPERATIVE MANAGEMENT SPECIAL ISSUE

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CO-OPERATIVE MANAGEMENT

Call for paper for the special issue:

“The Governance of Co-operative Housing: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives”

Topical Background

In recent years, the issue of co-operative housing governance has gained increasing importance

across different academic fields as well as within public policies in many countries. Changes in the

institutional environment of social housing, such as the reduction of public subsidies, have redefined

the role and identity of co-operative housing providers. On the one hand, co-operative housing

initiatives often fill the gap left by the withdrawal of the state. Co-operative housing organizations

also emerge in partnership arrangements for urban renewal and development as they are considered

to have potential for achieving improved service quality, strengthening social cohesion, and even

fostering political empowerment of residents. On the other hand, the liberalization of social housing

policy and the changing competitive environment have led to a professionalization and stronger

market orientation of co-operative housing organizations.

Against this background, two strands of governance research related to co-operative housing seem

to be relevant for this special issue: First, external governance research deals with current

transformations in the policy context of social housing and the increasing involvement of housing cooperatives

in institutional arrangements in different governance spaces (neighbourhoods, cities and

regions) as well as multilevel governance environments. The second strand of research deals with

what can be called internal or organizational governance. Here, mainly scholars from management

and organizational studies engage in the debate on the efficiency of internal coordination, control

and accountability mechanisms, especially focusing on the measures through which co-operative

housing organizations are directed.

Goal of this Special Issue

For this special issue, we invite high-quality contributions that strive to identify and answer some of

the crucial issues related to the internal and/or the external dimensions of governance in housing cooperatives.

We believe that the analysis of co-operative governance in the housing sector cannot be

reduced to organizational approaches alone but has to be complemented and enriched by external,

institutional governance perspectives. To address this two-way interaction of internal and external

governance, there is a need for transdisciplinary dialogue, critical reflection on the concept of

governance, and specific conceptual frameworks to examine co-operative housing sectors and their

institutional contexts.

We welcome articles reporting on new empirical research as well as theoretical contributions dealing

with the topics of how housing-co-operatives are governed internally and their external governance

capacity. Furthermore, the special issue aims at reflecting the considerable differences which exist in

relation to the concept of co-operative housing between different countries and even cities. In order

to push forward transdisciplinary governance research on housing co-operatives, we invite contributions

from fields such as management and organizational studies, to political science, spatial

development and planning as well as urban sociology.

Delineation and Illustrative Areas of this Special Issue

The special issue welcomes papers from scholars of diverse disciplinary backgrounds, theoretical

contributions, and empirical studies including cross-country comparisons and multilevel analyses. It

covers different topics, such as:

interrelation of housing co-operatives and their institutional context (e.g. restructuring of

housing policy and provision, welfare-state restructuring)

housing co-operatives and sustainable development

housing co-operatives and sociopolitical issues (e.g. social cohesion, mixed neighbourhoods,

community building)

comparing co-operative governance with approaches in public and private housing

exploring different organizational governance approaches within the co-operative housing

sector (e.g. member-based, market-oriented)

analyzing role of boards, stakeholder relations, ownership structures, accountability issues,

legal aspects of governing housing co-operatives

governance and innovation in co-operative housing

relations between housing co-operatives and their members/residents (e.g. “tenant

mentality” versus “ownership mentality”)