Trust is something we all might claim to know about, and particularly when we perceive or experience its "violation" or "loss". However, fewer of us might claim to fully understand trust. Ably edited, this book brings together experts in business research, international management, business consultancy, employee relations, human resource management and business ethics among other relevant fields in order to develop a multi-perspective exploration of organizations as contexts for researching, observing and interpreting human trusting attitudes and behaviors. The premise for this collaboration between thirty plus authors and co-authors across sixteen chapters is that "the globalized nature of modern organizations presents new and intimidating challenges for effective relationship building". Building on established scholarly research that emphasizes differences and potential boundaries between cultures, the editors undertake to develop our understanding of "the nature of cross-cultural trust-building in organizations" and thus (potentially) render the aforementioned "challenges" less "intimidating". Along with other titles in the impressive CUP Companions to Management series, this book targets a readership of "academics, graduate students and reflective business practitioners". My current work involves supporting "reflective practitioners" in a multi-national enterprise, so this is the perspective I have chosen to emphasize in this review.
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