Trust and the United Nations Global Compact

Abstract

The United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) is a Global Public Policy Network supporting ten universal principles in the areas of human rights, labor standards, environmental protection, and anticorruption. Networks such as the UNGC are an organizational form with distinct structural properties and specific requirements regarding coordination. Relationships among network partners are typically complex, reciprocal, and trust based. Despite the relevance of trust for a successful coordination of networks, the literature on the UNGC remains relatively silent when it comes to this phenomenon. The conditions and mechanisms that contribute to the constitution of trust in the UNGC are poorly understood. Based on research in network theory, the authors argue that the trust of participants and other stakeholders supporting the UNGC is a key precondition to enhance collaboration and to further develop the initiative. Against this background, the aim of this article is to develop a systematic approach to foster the constitution of trust in the UNGC. A thorough investigation of the connection between trust and the UNGC may help identify concrete measures for increasing the scale and scope of collaboration between stakeholders and at UNIV NEBRASKA LIBRARIES on August 26, 2015

Trust Development in Networked Environments: A Performative Account

“…This paper contributes to the emerging literature on trust in networked environments [21,23,31,46]. In particular, the study aligns with the claims that trust in such complex network settings emerges out of integration mechanisms that bring actors together [15,38], but our processual orientation furthers these insights by highlighting the practices that constitute these processes. In addition, our conceptualization of trust, inspired by the sociology of translation [9,26], and underpinned by relational and performative ontologies, avoids the division between 'micro' and 'macro' levels of trust, and instead focuses on the trustproducing and network building practices.…”

“…Trust is related to institutional context, but also sustained and reproduced through collective practices [36]. For example, [15] identify three main sources of trust in networks: knowledge-sharing routines; governance systems; and capabilities making expertise and rules a source of trust. A common understanding is that trust is seen to emerge out of the integration mechanisms that bring actors together [15,38].…”

Digital Trust and Peer-to-Peer Collaborative Consumption Platforms: A Mediation Analysis

“…Furthermore, one can derive interesting management implications from the findings concerning the two-fold and hierarchical nature of the trust construct: managers might profit from the strategic management of spill-over effects from trust in them as a provider to trust in peers. In fact, results indicate that users might perceive a feeling of high trust when conducting sharing activities, even though not all peers on the sharing platform seem trustworthy to them (Gilbert and Behnam 2013). Furthermore, these results suggest that users might trust using a certain online sharing platform first, for instance, compared to another online sharing platform, or to a conventional non-sharing service.…”

Ímyndarþættir sem spávísar um traust í bankageiranum

“…Traust er vilji til að reiða sig á annan aðila sem þykir traustsins verður (Moorman, Zaltman og Deshpande, 1992), trú á að loforð aðilans séu áreiðanleg og að hann muni uppfylla sínar skyldur í sambandinu. Traust er mikilvaegur þáttur í öllum tegundum viðskipa hvort sem átt er við fyrirtaeki á neytendamarkaði (Chatura og Prabhu, 2003;Pennington, Wilcox og Grover, 2004), á fyrirtaekjamarkaði (Blois, 1999), meðal stofnana (Holland, 1998), í rafraenum viðskiptum (Gefen, 2000;Ratnasingham, 1998) og á mörkuðum sem ekki eru reknir í hagnaðarskyni (Bunger, 2013;Gilbert og Behnam, 2013). Þó hafa rannsóknir ekki endanlega sýnt fram á hvort traust sem hugtak sé ein vídd eða samsetning margra vídda, enda er traust flókið og fjölþaett hugtak (Xie og Peng, 2009).…”