Introduction: trust within organisations

Introduction: trust within organisations

Introduces six empirical studies on trust within organisations which were originally presented at a workshop on “Trust within and between organisations”, organised by the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management at the Free University Amsterdam, in November 2001. Areas covered include: the legitimacy of the field of study; common understandings and disagreements in theoretical idea...

Business trust within virtual organisations

The development of Grid computing technologies has stimulated additional interest in the concept of the virtual organization, with the promise of ‘always available’ processing power seeming to offer sufficient processing power to overcome any technical obstacles to transparent global interorganizational working. However, whilst the academic literature has given much attention to the theory of v...

Integrating Trust in Virtual Organisations

Organisational models cannot only be used to structure multiagent systems but also to express behaviour constraints for agents in open environments. However, sometimes these behaviour constraints cannot be exhaustively enforced, and some agents may transgress the norms put forward by a Virtual Organisation. This poses an additional burden on agents, as they cannot be sure that their acquaintanc...

Project-Based Organisations: Overcoming Lack of Trust and Social Networks within Small and Medium Project Teams

In sustainable development projects, as well as other types of projects, knowledge transfer is important for the organisations managing the project. Nevertheless, knowledge transfer among employees does not happen automatically and it has been found that the lack of social networks and the lack of trust among employees are the major barriers to effective knowledge transfer. Social network analy...

Leading Innovation within Public Organisations