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Patterns of Trust in Financial Services: Critical Factors and Gender Differences (2025)
Journal Article
Sholevar, M., & Bachmann, R. (2025). Patterns of Trust in Financial Services: Critical Factors and Gender Differences. Journal of Financial Services Marketing, 30(10), https://doi.org/10.1057/s41264-025-00303-0

This study investigates the interrelationships among factors of trust in financial services. Additionally, it examines how these factors correlate with gender differences, offering insights into trust patterns in emerging markets. Ethiopia, character... Read More about Patterns of Trust in Financial Services: Critical Factors and Gender Differences.

Identifying Trust Exchange Dynamics and Constituents of Employee Trust within Management Consulting (2024)
Journal Article
Abgeller, N., Saunders, M. N., Bachmann, R., & Mishra, A. (2025). Identifying Trust Exchange Dynamics and Constituents of Employee Trust within Management Consulting. Work, Employment and Society, 39(2), 336-360. https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170241254333

Focusing on management consulting firms, this study scrutinizes a core group of knowledge workers revealing the complexity and diversity of meanings attached to their trust-related decisions, emotions and behaviours. Drawing on 50 interviews utilizin... Read More about Identifying Trust Exchange Dynamics and Constituents of Employee Trust within Management Consulting.

Who Initiates Layoffs and Affects Firm Performance? Conflict of Interests between Active Foreign Institutional Investors and Outside Directors (2023)
Journal Article
Yoo, T., Jung, D. K., Son, D., & Bachmann, R. (2023). Who Initiates Layoffs and Affects Firm Performance? Conflict of Interests between Active Foreign Institutional Investors and Outside Directors. Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 12(3), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.36941/ajis-2023-0055

Expanding upon the existing literature on agency theory, which often overlooks potential conflicting interests among monitoring mechanisms, this study investigates the divergent effects of active foreign institutional investors and outside directors... Read More about Who Initiates Layoffs and Affects Firm Performance? Conflict of Interests between Active Foreign Institutional Investors and Outside Directors.

Responsible autonomy: The interplay of autonomy, control and trust for knowledge professionals working remotely during COVID-19 (2022)
Journal Article
Abgeller, N., Bachmann, R., Dobbins, T., & Anderson, D. (2024). Responsible autonomy: The interplay of autonomy, control and trust for knowledge professionals working remotely during COVID-19. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 45(1), 57-82. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831x221140156

This article revisits the concept of responsible autonomy, analysing the interplay of employee autonomy, management control and trust experienced by knowledge professionals in the UK compelled to work remotely during the coronavirus pandemic. The aut... Read More about Responsible autonomy: The interplay of autonomy, control and trust for knowledge professionals working remotely during COVID-19.

Neither acquiescence nor defiance: Tuscan wineries' "flexible reactivity" to the Italian government's quality regulation system (2021)
Journal Article
Yoo, T., Schilke, O., & Bachmann, R. (2021). Neither acquiescence nor defiance: Tuscan wineries' "flexible reactivity" to the Italian government's quality regulation system. The British Journal of Sociology, 72(5), 1430-1447. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12883

This article introduces the concept of “flexible reactivity” to describe and analyze a form of economic actors' response to multiple judgment devices. Using the example of government regulation in the Tuscan wine industry, we show that wineries can i... Read More about Neither acquiescence nor defiance: Tuscan wineries' "flexible reactivity" to the Italian government's quality regulation system.

Why the Epistemologies of Trust Researchers Matter (2015)
Journal Article
Isaeva, N., Bachmann, R., Bristow, A., & Saunders, M. N. K. (2015). Why the Epistemologies of Trust Researchers Matter. Journal of Trust Research, 5(2), 153-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/21515581.2015.1074585

In this thought piece we take stock of and evaluate the nature of knowledge production in the field of trust research by examining the epistemologies of 167 leading trust scholars, who responded to a short survey. Following a brief review of major ep... Read More about Why the Epistemologies of Trust Researchers Matter.

Repairing Trust in Organizations and Institutions: Toward a Conceptual Framework (2015)
Journal Article
Bachmann, R., Gillespie, N., & Priem, R. (2015). Repairing Trust in Organizations and Institutions: Toward a Conceptual Framework. Organization Studies, 36(9), 1123-1142. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840615599334

Trust plays a fundamental role in facilitating social exchange, yet recent global events have undermined trust in many of society’s institutions and organizations. This raises the pertinent question of how trust in organizations and institutions can... Read More about Repairing Trust in Organizations and Institutions: Toward a Conceptual Framework.

At the crossroads: Future directions in trust research (2011)
Journal Article
Bachmann, R. (2011). At the crossroads: Future directions in trust research. Journal of Trust Research, 1(2), 203-213. https://doi.org/10.1080/21515581.2011.603513

This forum paper is intended to stimulate a debate on a fundamental conceptual issue in trust research. It argues that the dominant stream of literature focuses too much on the micro level of trust building processes and hence promotes a reductionist... Read More about At the crossroads: Future directions in trust research.

Understanding Institutional-based Trust Building Processes in Inter-organizational Relationships (2011)
Journal Article
Bachmann, R., & Inkpen, A. C. (2011). Understanding Institutional-based Trust Building Processes in Inter-organizational Relationships. Organization Studies, 32(2), 281-301. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840610397477

This paper deals with the role of institutions in the development of trust in relationships between organizations. We review various strands of literature on organizational trust and examine the assumptions made about how trust building processes are... Read More about Understanding Institutional-based Trust Building Processes in Inter-organizational Relationships.

Analyzing Inter-Organizational Relationships in the Context of Their National Business Systems (2009)
Journal Article
Bachmann, R., & van Witteloostuijn, A. (2009). Analyzing Inter-Organizational Relationships in the Context of Their National Business Systems. European Societies, 11(1), 49-76. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616690801941084

This paper suggests a cross-country comparative framework for the study of inter-organizational relationships. It provides a perspective that links the micro-, meso- and macro-levels of analysis, dealing with the following issues: (a) the role of soc... Read More about Analyzing Inter-Organizational Relationships in the Context of Their National Business Systems.

Transition economies and trust building: a network perspective on EU enlargement (2006)
Journal Article
van Ees, H., & Bachmann, R. (2006). Transition economies and trust building: a network perspective on EU enlargement. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 30(6), 923-939. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bej004

Many transition economies are characterised by a relatively rudimentary institutional framework. Weak legislative structures and the absence of effective market regulation and property right enforcement rules diminish the chance of mutually profitabl... Read More about Transition economies and trust building: a network perspective on EU enlargement.

Introduction: Understanding organizational trust – foundations, constellations, and issues of operationalisation (2004)
Journal Article
Möllering, G., Bachmann, R., & Soo Hee, L. (2004). Introduction: Understanding organizational trust – foundations, constellations, and issues of operationalisation. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 19(6), 556-570. https://doi.org/10.1108/02683940410551480

This paper gives an overview of major issues in trust research, identifying common foundations and multiple constellations of organizational trust. In doing so, the paper also addresses important implications of theory development and empirical resea... Read More about Introduction: Understanding organizational trust – foundations, constellations, and issues of operationalisation.