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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.

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1. Trust Contextualized: Confidence in Theory and Practice; Bengt Kristensson Uggla, Marta Reuter and Filip Wijkström 2. Currency for Europe: Monetary Solidity, Trust and Identification across National Borders; Johan Fornäs 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-Zandén 5. The Certification Paradox: Monitoring as a Solution and a Problem; Ingrid Gustafsson and Kristina Tamm Hallström 6. The Triumph of Feelings: On the Power of Imagery in Business; Lars Stranneg†rd 7. The Creation of a Crisis of Confidence: A Study of the Mediatization of the Red Cross; Pernilla Petrelius Karlberg, Maria Grafström 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 Sjögren 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 Träg†rdh List of Contributors Index

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Johan Fornäs, Södertörn University, Sweden Maria Gustavson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Bo Rothstein, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Niklas Egels-Zandén, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Ingrid Gustafsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Kristina Tamm Hallström, Stockholm School of Economics and Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (Score), Sweden Lars Stranneg†rd, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden Pernilla Petrelius Karlberg, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden Maria Grafström, Stockholm University, Sweden Karolina Windell, Uppsala University, Sweden Eva Hagbjer, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden Johnny Lind, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden Ebba Sjögren, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden Lars Träg†rdh, Ersta Sköndal University College, Sweden

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