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Title Trust and organizations : confidence across borders / edited by Marta Reuter, Filip Wijkström, and Bengt Kristensson Uggla
Published New York City, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2013]

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Contents 1. Trust Contextualized: Confidence in Theory and Practice; Bengt Kristensson Uggla, Marta Reuter and Filip Wijkstrom -- 2. Currency for Europe: Monetary Solidity, Trust and Identification across National Borders; Johan Forñs -- 3. Can Auditing Generate Trust? The Organisation of Auditing and the Quality of Government; Maria Gustavson and Bo Rothstein -- 4. From Global Consumer Power to Local Worker Power; Niklas Egels-Zandn -- 5. The Certification Paradox: Monitoring as a Solution and a Problem; Ingrid Gustafsson and Kristina Tamm Hallstrom -- 6. The Triumph of Feelings: On the Power of Imagery in Business; Lars Strannegrd -- 7. The Creation of a Crisis of Confidence: A Study of the Mediatization of the Red Cross; Pernilla Petrelius Karlberg, Maria Grafstrom and Karolina Windell -- 8. Trust in the Monitoring of Publicly Funded Services: A Case Study of Two Outsourced Care Homes for the Elderly; Eva Hagbjer, Johnny Lind and Ebba Sjogren -- 9. The Grammar of Trust as Ethical Challenge; Bengt Kristensson Uggla -- 10. The Historical Incubators of Trust in Sweden: From the Rule of Blood to the Rule of Law; Lars Trgrdh -- List of Contributors
Summary An increasing number of people work in organizations that 'trade in trust'. Institutions such as banks, accounting firms, schools, and hospitals require customers, students, and patients to have confidence in the experience and professional expertise of the staff, as well as in the effectiveness of the regulations, rules, and systems in place for quality control. What mechanisms have developed in modern society to create, manage, maintain, and convey trust in companies, public administrations, and civil society organizations? What takes place in the encounter between different cultures of confidence and what happens when confidence in or between organizations is shattered? "Trust and Organizations" gathers an interdisciplinary group of academics to contextualize the dilemmas resulting from the institutionalization of trust and confidence in a wide selection of organizational settings. The importance of trust is highlighted in relation to different types of borders or boundaries - institutional, organizational, and geographical - as the overlapping and blurring of such boundaries is becoming one of the main characteristics of an increasingly transnational and re-regulated world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Organizational sociology.
Organizational behavior -- Moral and ethical aspects
Trust.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Organizational behavior -- Moral and ethical aspects
Organizational sociology
Trust
Form Electronic book
Author Reuter, Marta, editor
Wijkström, Filip, editor
Uggla, Bengt Kristensson, editor
ISBN 9781137368812
1137368810
1306286417
9781306286411
9781137370747
1137370742
9781349475377
1349475378