Getting a grip on trust
Jacobs University professor Guido Möllering has co-edited a concise overview of quantitative and qualitative methods for the empirical study of trust in the social sciences.
December 1, 2011Trust is essential in human social interaction and collaboration. In the last few years the topic has increasingly caught the eye of social science researchers across the globe and an ever-growing number of studies been published on the matter.
However, despite trust being one of the buzz words in social sciences as well as in the field of economics and management, the methodology of trust research has remained elusive.
Jacobs University professor Guido Möllering has now co-edited a concise overview of quantitative and qualitative methods for the empirical study of trust in the social sciences.
For the publication Handbook of Research Methods on Trust, Prof. Möllering, Professor of Organization and Management at Jacobs, and his British co-editors Prof. Fergus Lyon from the Middlesex University Business School and Prof. Mark Saunders from the University of Surrey have gathered internationally renowned contributors who not only examine different methodological issues, but also share their experience of advantages and disadvantages of particular methods.
Furthermore they present an analysis of challenges and innovations in trust research and have come up with new and improved objectives for studying and understanding trust.
Prof. Möllering says: “Everybody talks about trust, but few people consider the difficulties of actually observing and measuring it in empirical research. This is important for anybody who makes claims about trust in our times.”
In recent weeks, Prof. Möllering has talked about related topics such as ‘Trust and Deception’ at the prestigious Einstein Forum in Potsdam. The talk was recently broadcast on DRadioWissen.
He was also invited as the keynote speaker to the Nordic Research Network On Trust In And Between Organizations in Roskilde, where he lectured about ‘Process Views of Trust’.
The Handbook of Research Methods on Trust is available from November 30 through UK-based imprint Edward Elgar Publishing.
For more information please contact
Prof. Dr. Guido Möllering| Professor of Organization and Management
Tel. +49 421 200 3035 | g.moellering@jacobs-university.de
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