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PROF Reinhard Bachmann's Outputs (28)

Trust Matters: The governance of private and public services organizations' external relationships (2025)
Book Chapter
Bachmann, R. (2025). Trust Matters: The governance of private and public services organizations' external relationships. In F. Six, J. A. Hamm, D. Latusek, E. van Zimmeren, & K. Verhoest (Eds.), Handbook on Trust in Public Governance (76-84). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802201406.00010

This chapter focuses on the external relationships of private and public sector organisations and puts trust in the focus of a comparative analysis. It starts with identifying the function of trust and suggests that it is a governance mechanism that... Read More about Trust Matters: The governance of private and public services organizations' external relationships.

Accountability to Build School and System Improvement Capacity (2021)
Book Chapter
Ehren, M., & Bachmann, R. (2021). Accountability to Build School and System Improvement Capacity. In M. Ehren, & J. Baxter (Eds.), Trust, Accountability and Capacity in Education System Reform (102-123). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429344855-5

Accountability plays a key role in both the exchange of resources as well as in enhancing the capacity to provide for and improve the quality of education. The effect works through a number of interactions which vary depending on the extent to which... Read More about Accountability to Build School and System Improvement Capacity.

Institutions and Trust (2018)
Book Chapter
Bachmann, R. (2018). Institutions and Trust. In R. H. Searle, A.-M. I. Nienaber, & S. B. Sitkin (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Trust (218-227). Routledge

Cooperation and Coordination: The role of trust in inter-organizational relationships (2018)
Book Chapter
Brattström, A., & Bachmann, R. (2018). Cooperation and Coordination: The role of trust in inter-organizational relationships. In R. H. Searle, A.-M. I. Nienaber, & S. B. Sitkin (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Trust (129-142). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315745572-9

How should we understand the role of trust in inter-organizational relationships? Trust refers to the ‘willingness of one party to be vulnerable to the actions of another party based on the expectations that the other will perform a particular action... Read More about Cooperation and Coordination: The role of trust in inter-organizational relationships.

Trust: Foundations and Critical Reflections (2015)
Book Chapter
Bachmann, R. (2015). Trust: Foundations and Critical Reflections. In R. Mir, H. Willmott, & M. Greenwood (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies (568-374). Routledge

Can Trust Flourish Where Institutional Distrust Reigns? (2014)
Book Chapter
Bachmann, R., & Hanappi-Egger, E. (2014). Can Trust Flourish Where Institutional Distrust Reigns?. In J. Harris, B. Moriarty, & A. Wicks (Eds.), Public Trust in Business (266-289). Cambridge University Press

Trusting Across Boundaries (2013)
Book Chapter
Kroeger, F., & Bachmann, R. (2013). Trusting Across Boundaries. In J. Langan Fox, & C. Cooper (Eds.), Boundary-Spanning in Organizations: Network, Influence, and Conflict (253-284). Routledge

Vertrauen und Macht in zwischenbetrieblichen Kooperationen — zur Rolle von Wirtschaftsrecht und Wirtschaftsverbänden in Deutschland und Großbritannien (2010)
Book Chapter
Bachmann, R., & Lane, C. (2010). Vertrauen und Macht in zwischenbetrieblichen Kooperationen — zur Rolle von Wirtschaftsrecht und Wirtschaftsverbänden in Deutschland und Großbritannien. In J. Sydow (Ed.), Management von Netzwerkorganisationen: Beiträge aus der "Managementforschung" (75-106). Gabler Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-8593-4_4

Trust in Interorganizational Relations (2008)
Book Chapter
Bachmann, R., & Zaheer, A. (2008). Trust in Interorganizational Relations. In S. Cropper, M. Ebers, C. Huxman, & P. Smith Ring (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations (533-554). Oxford University Press

Introduction (2008)
Book Chapter
Bachmann, R., & Zaheer, A. (2008). Introduction. In R. Bachmann, & A. Zaheer (Eds.), Landmark Papers on Trust (ix-xv). Edward Elgar

Introduction (2006)
Book Chapter
Bachmann, R., & Zaheer, A. (2006). Introduction. In R. Bachmann, & A. Zaheer (Eds.), Handbook of Trust Research (1-12). Edward Elgar

Trust Building in Different Forms of Systemic Transition (2005)
Book Chapter
Bachmann, R., & van Ees, H. (2005). Trust Building in Different Forms of Systemic Transition. In H.-H. Höhmann, & F. Welter (Eds.), Trust and Entrepreneurship. A West-East Perspective (99-113). Edward Elgar