Routledge Studies in Trust Research
About the Book Series
Over the last twenty years there has been increasing attention on the topic of trust. While trust first became a subject to in-depth research in the 1950s it has continued to grow, first slowly and then more rapidly especially over in the last two decades. It is an area that crosses disciplinary boundaries – from science and biology into social science single and multi-disciplines, including economics, psychology, sociology, and organizational behavior, etc.
In addition aside from the attention received from academics, it is also a topic that has growing interests from the Public, business and other institutions, including regulators and Governments. Routledge Studies in Trust Research seeks to build on and extend the field in a timely manner and will showcase the breadth and scope of the field.
This series aims to take forward a number of areas, providing authors the opportunity to take the next steps for the field, with a consolidation and summary of their area of interest, and then to extend the field with their new conceptualizations and empirical findings. This is a vibrant and important field with significant messages and insights and the research books in this series will allow authors more space to develop their new ideas and understanding. They will therefore be a resource among faculty, researchers, graduate students and undergraduates, but also to the wider community of thought- leaders, regulators and advisors not just to trust researchers, but also to the related disciplines of management science, economics, and political science.
Trust and ESG Strategies
1st Edition
Edited
By Joanna Paliszkiewicz, Ireneusz Dąbrowski, Steven Lorenzet, Angelica Marotta, Quang-An Ha
April 27, 2026
Trust and ESG Strategies explores how trust shapes the design, implementation, and impact of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives across sectors and regions. As ESG moves from a niche concern to a central lens for evaluating organizations, questions about credibility, ...
AI, Trust and Business Models
1st Edition
By Marlena Grabowska, Iwona Otola, Magdalena Rzemieniak
April 13, 2026
This innovative research monograph explores the nuanced relationship between artificial intelligence, trust dynamics, and value creation in modern organizations. Drawing on rich theoretical foundations and careful empirical analysis, the authors survey how AI technologies are reshaping our ...
Trust and Marketing Communication in the Food Industry: Traditional, Modern, and AI-driven Approaches
1st Edition
By Hanna Górska-Warsewicz, Irena Ozimek, Olena Kulykovets, Julita Szlachciuk
January 21, 2026
This book explores trust-based marketing communication within the food marketing industry. It presents a comprehensive conceptual model that encompasses three pillars: traditional, modern, and AI-driven marketing communication. By examining these pillars, the book explores the informational role ...
Privacy, Trust and Social Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Joanna Paliszkiewicz, Kuanchin Chen, Jerzy Gołuchowski
June 26, 2025
Trust is important – it influences new technologies adoption and learning, enhances using social media, new technologies, IoT, and blockchain, and it contributes to the practical implementations of cybersecurity policy in organizations. This edited research volume examines the main issues and ...
Trust and Organizational Resilience
1st Edition
By Iwona Otola, Marlena Grabowska, Zoran Krupka
May 05, 2025
In a turbulent environment, companies face disruptive events and must build organisational resilience in order to thrive. This unique book offers new, cutting-edge research on how trust can build and develop resilience. The authors combine theoretical and empirical perspectives on the two issues of...
Communication, Leadership and Trust in Organizations
1st Edition
Edited
By Joanna Paliszkiewicz, José L. Guerrero Cusumano
January 30, 2025
Trust in communication and leadership is the key to success in business. This book presents and discusses the main issues and challenges posed by communication, leadership, and trust. The first part of the book describes the communication and trust issues, the second part presents the role of trust...
Artificial Intelligence, Management and Trust
1st Edition
Edited
By Mariusz Sołtysik, Magda Gawłowska, Bartlomiej Sniezynski, Artur Gunia
December 18, 2024
The main challenge related to the development of artificial intelligence (AI) is to establish harmonious human-AI relations, necessary for the proper use of its potential. AI will eventually transform many businesses and industries; its pace of development is influenced by the lack of trust on the ...
Trust and Digital Business: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Joanna Paliszkiewicz, Kuanchin Chen, Markus Launer
May 27, 2024
Trust and Digital Business: Theory and Practice brings together the theory and practice of trust and digital business. The book offers a look at the current state, including a comprehensive overview of both research and practical applications of trust in business. Readers will gain from this book ...
Trust, Digital Business and Technology: Issues and Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Joanna Paliszkiewicz, José L. Guerrero Cusumano, Jerzy Gołuchowski
May 27, 2024
Trust, Digital Business and Technology: Issues and Challenges presents and discusses the main issues and challenges related to digital trust and information technologies. The subject of trust is relevant to both practitioners and researchers. It is widely recognized and confirmed that trust, ...
Trust, Power and Public Sector Leadership: A Relational Approach
1st Edition
By Steen Vallentin
May 27, 2024
Trust, Power and Public Sector Leadership: A Relational Approach provides a critical theoretical treatment of trust in the realm of public management and governance. The public trust agenda is an antidote to rampant bureaucratic control and, in particular, the marketization and instrumentalization ...
Trust in Epistemology
1st Edition
Edited
By Katherine Dormandy
June 30, 2021
Trust is fundamental to epistemology. It features as theoretical bedrock in a broad cross-section of areas including social epistemology, the epistemology of self-trust, feminist epistemology, and the philosophy of science. Yet epistemology has seen little systematic conversation with the rich ...
Trust, Control, and the Economics of Governance
1st Edition
By Philipp Herold
March 31, 2021
In today’s world, we cooperate across legal and cultural systems in order to create value. However, this increases volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity as challenges for societies, politics, and business. This has made governance a scarce resource. It thus is inevitable that we ...