The Visibility of Trust: Exploring the connection between trust and interaction in a Dutch collaborative governance boardroom

Oortmerssen, Lise A. van; Woerkum, Cees van; Aarts, Noelle

doi:10.1080/14719037.2012.743578

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“…This dynamic approach to interpersonal trust focuses on how trust develops over time, and how it is both influencing and influenced by the interactions between actors, leading to both more calculative as well as more affinitive reasons for trust or distrust. Such an approach takes into account the dynamics that characterise the negotiations and interactions within collective action [36][37][38].…”

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Trusting the People and the System. The Interrelation Between Interpersonal and Institutional Trust in Collective Action for Agri-Environmental Management

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Agri-environmental schemes have been introduced in numerous countries to combat biodiversity loss in agrarian landscapes that are important for both food production and biodiversity. The successful operation of such schemes depends strongly upon trust between actors involved, as well as trust in institutions that govern these schemes. However, the interplay between interpersonal and institutional trust in the context of collective action for agri-environmental management is not well understood. To address this question, we explore the case of agri-environmental management in the province of Drenthe (in The Netherlands), where a new policy model was implemented. This case shows how both institutional design and institutional performance critically influence trust dynamics. Under the old policy model, farmers struggled with auditing and control, which fostered mistrust and hampered collective action. Under the new model, a landscape approach, more responsibilities were delegated to farmers, and more room was created for interaction, which fostered trust both between actors and in institutions. Based on our findings, we conclude that institutional designs that reflect trust in the actors can foster interpersonal and institutional trust that, in turn, facilitates collective action. However, old arrangements can also create path dependencies that limit trust development and impede collective action for agri-environmental management.Sustainability 2019, 11, 7022 2 of 18 agri-environmental policies are generally considered to be ineffective [2]. One of the main objections is that agri-environmental schemes are often too heavily based on management by individual farmers, while a collective landscape approach to conserve biodiversity that is carefully designed and targeted is required [1,2].The lack of effectiveness and the need for collective action at landscape-level were some of the most important reasons behind the reform of the Netherlands' agri-environmental policy in 2016. Under the subsequent new policy model, agri-environmental schemes can only be implemented via regional farmers' collectives. Through these collectives, farmers cooperate to achieve agri-environmental objectives at landscape-level. In the new model, the collectives incorporate agreements, to clarify which measures are adopted on which parcels of land to achieve the collective objectives. The Netherlands was not the only EU country that adopted agri-environmental schemes in which farmers' groups played a role, as such an approach became possible under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (2014-2020) as groups of farmers became eligible for CAP payments (EU regulation 1305/2013, article 35) [5].The new model, thus, aims to organise collective action in a particular area, rather than to pay individual farmers for adopting voluntary measures, each on their own land. The long-term performance of this new policy model depends, inter alia, upon the participation of a group of farmers. Studies have shown that the willingness to parti...

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Section: Interpersonal Trustmentioning

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Trusting the People and the System. The Interrelation Between Interpersonal and Institutional Trust in Collective Action for Agri-Environmental Management

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“…These dimensions are often distinguished and studied in the collaboration literature (e.g . van Oortmerssen et al, 2014).…”

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“…Collaboration requires that researchers accept differences and diversity and are ready to openly discuss diverging viewpoints and underlying assumptions and interests. Many authors acknowledge and emphasize the importance of having productive conversation about difference in this process (Pearce and Littlejohn, 1997;Wenger, 2000;Jeffrey, 2003;Bukvova, 2010;Lewis et al, 2010;van Oortmerssen et al, 2014).…”

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“…Given these challenges, the ability to constructively communicate is seen as a precondition for resolving many of these tensions (Jeffrey, 2003;Bukvova, 2010). Scholars of scientific collaboration, as well as those studying collaboration in closely related domains (Pearce and Littlejohn, 1997;Wenger, 2000;Lewis et al, 2010;van Oortmerssen et al, 2014) have pointed out that constructive communication can help to clarify roles and task requirements, increases trust and psychological safety, resolves disagreement and conflicts, and contributes to developing new frameworks for solving problems (Jeffrey, 2003;Stokols et al, 2008).…”

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Silence in Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration: Not Everything Said is Relevant, Not Everything Relevant is Said

2016

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Solving publicly important issues asks for the development of sociotechnical approaches, which demands collaboration between researchers with different perspectives, values, and interests. In these complex interdisciplinary collaborations, the course of communication is of utmost importance, including the moments when people, consciously or not, keep silent. In 2012, an interdisciplinary group of water management engineers and scientists collaborated to explore how the university's separate water management research fields could fit better in today's socio-technical trends. Studying the interactional process revealed that during the collaboration many issues were not said by various parties at various times. Results show that, in particular, engineers and scientists stayed silent to secure group performance, to keep disagreements from surfacing, and manage conflicts of interest in the bargaining process. Although silence served various interactional functions, it also shaped the course of interaction in ways that were not intended, resulting in the development of a latent conflict. It is concluded that the concept of silence adds a relevant dimension to our understanding of interaction among engineers and scientists participating in interdisciplinary collaboration that is currently absent in existing literature on scientific collaboration.

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“…It is considered to have various important benefits for the practices of complex collaboration; it is supposed to facilitate cooperation, to render collaboration more robust, to boost performance and to make innovation possible (Klijn, Edelenbos & Steijn, 2010;van Oortmerssen, van Woerkum & Aarts, 2014). Brown, Gray, McHardy, and Taylor, (2015) present a theoretical framework which serves to establish a link between the employee trust and a company's performance.…”

Section: H2: Trust Has a Positive Influence On Tacit Knowledge Sharingmentioning

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Relationships between Trust and Collaborative Culture in the Context of Tacit Knowledge Sharing

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2017

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The Visibility of Trust: Exploring the connection between trust and interaction in a Dutch collaborative governance boardroom

Cited by 28 publications

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Trusting the People and the System. The Interrelation Between Interpersonal and Institutional Trust in Collective Action for Agri-Environmental Management

Trusting the People and the System. The Interrelation Between Interpersonal and Institutional Trust in Collective Action for Agri-Environmental Management

Silence in Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration: Not Everything Said is Relevant, Not Everything Relevant is Said

Relationships between Trust and Collaborative Culture in the Context of Tacit Knowledge Sharing

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