1st Edition

Multilevel Trust in Organizations Theoretical, Analytical, and Empirical Advances

Edited By Ashley Fulmer, Kurt Dirks Copyright 2020
124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

Trust—whether it is between individuals, within teams, or between organizations—is embedded in a multilevel system where the environment and member interactions jointly affect trust at any level. Yet research on trust at different levels of analysis has largely developed independently with little cross-fertilization. This book brings together six chapters that take levels effects explicitly into... Read more

Introduction - Multilevel trust: A theoretical and practical imperative
Ashley Fulmer & Kurt Dirks


1. Conceptualising time as a level of analysis: New directions in the analysis of trust dynamics

M. Audrey Korsgaard, Jason Kautz, Paul Bliese, Katarzyna Samson & Patrycjusz Kostyszyn


2. Trust development processes in intra-organisational relationships: A multi-level permeation of trust in a merging university

Sari-Johanna Karhapää & Taina Inkeri Savolainen


3. Contextualising the coevolution of (dis)trust and control – a longitudinal case study of a public market

Lena Högberg, Birgitta Sköld & Malin Tillmar


4. Job insecurity, employee anxiety, and commitment: The moderating role of collective trust in management

Wen Wang, Kim Mather & Roger Seifert


5. Trust development across levels of analysis: An embedded-agency perspective

Fabrice Lumineau & Oliver Schilke

Biography

Ashley Fulmer is Assistant Professor of Management at Georgia State University. Her research focuses on trust dynamics in organizations and levels of analysis theory and research. She is on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Review and Personnel Psychology and an associate editor for Journal of Trust Research.



Kurt Dirks is Bank of America Professor of Leadership and Vice Chancellor of International Affairs at Washington University in St. Louis. He is known for his research on the determinants, barriers, and outcomes of trust within organizations and published multiple highly cited and award-winning articles on the topic.