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The question of public trust in business. Comments on Jared D. Harris, Brian T. Moriarty, and Andrew C. Wicks (eds.), Public Trust in Business . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014

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Jared D. Harris, Brian T. Moriarty, and Andrew C. Wicks’ recent book collects 11 chapters by well-known scholars on the question of public trust in business, published along with an introduction and conclusion by the editors. But the collection does not make progress on what this reviewer takes to be the two essential questions. This review outlines those questions and then addresses a further, more technical difficulty with the conceptualisations of trust at work across the chapters. The central theme here is that business as an institution has obligations to society; we -- the public -- trust business to act on those obligations; and when business violates those obligations our trust is betrayed. The essays collected in this volume do not directly address the question of what those obligations are, but this should be the starting point for an investigation of public trust in business.

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  • Marc A. Cohen, 2016. "The question of public trust in business. Comments on Jared D. Harris, Brian T. Moriarty, and Andrew C. Wicks (eds.), Public Trust in Business . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014," Journal of Trust Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 6(1), pages 96-103, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jtrust:v:6:y:2016:i:1:p:96-103
    DOI: 10.1080/21515581.2016.1153975
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    Cited by:

    1. Peter Ping Li, 2017. "The time for transition: Future trust research," Journal of Trust Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(1), pages 1-14, January.
    2. Markus Leibrecht & Hans Pitlik, 2018. "Is Trust in Companies Rooted in Social Trust, or Regulatory Quality, or Both?," WIFO Working Papers 564, WIFO.

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