About this journal

Journal Mission

Trust is imperative to constructive social interaction and cooperation at and across all levels. Positioned as a high-impact source journal providing novel ideas for other journals (both academic and practical), the mission of JTR is:

• to inquire into the nature, form, base and role of trust as well as the mechanism and stage of trust-building and trust repair at and across personal, group, organizational, community and national levels so as to facilitate and stimulate informed academic dialogue and debate toward an integrative body of knowledge via both relevant and rigorous theory-building and theory-testing
• to influence individuals, groups, organizations, communities and nations in the choice of practical solutions for their trust-related management by providing the most relevant and rigorous research.

Journal Philosophy

JTR is particularly interested in those studies that are inter-disciplinary, cross-cultural, cross-level, multi-method, context-rich, process-oriented, and practice-relevant in perspectives, so as to effectively investigate the holistic content and dynamic process of organizational and societal trust, without the perils of reductionist assumptions. JTR identifies the above as the emerging trends with the greatest potential to contribute to our rich and deep understanding about the complex phenomenon of trust.

Journal Scope

Asan inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural journal dedicated to advancing a cross-level, context-rich, process-oriented, and practice-relevant journal, JTR provides a focal point for an open dialogue and debate between diverse researchers, thus enhancing the understanding of trust in general and trust-related management in particular, especially in its organizational and social context in the broadest sense. Through both theoretical development and empirical investigation, JTR seeks to open the "black-box" of trust in various contexts.

JTR aims to publish relevant and rigorous research contributing to knowledge in six major domains that are interdisciplinary and cross-cultural:

• General research on trust to build an integrative framework with a common language across disciplines and across cultures (building upon but extending beyond disciplinary and cultural perspectives)
• General research on trust at and across the levels of individual, group, organization, community, and nation
• Specific research on trust management within and between organizations and societies
• Specific research on interpersonal trust within and between organizations and societies
• Specific research on institutional trust within and between organizations and societies
• Specific research on inter-organizational and social trust within and across nations

Journal Readership

JTR specializes in dedicated research on trust in general and organizational trust in particular, thereby serving the needs primarily of scholars and secondarily practitioners. The unique features of JTR as a focal point for an inter-disciplinary, cross-cultural, cross-level, context-rich, process-oriented, and practice-relevant research Journal will appeal to the broadest readership, especially those who believe in such values as the indicators of high quality research.

Journal of Trust Research is an international, peer-reviewed journal which publishes high quality, original research contributions to scientific knowledge. All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.

Editor-in-Chief
Joseph Hamm, Michigan State University, USA

Managing Editor
Leeslie Shakira Herrera, Michigan State University, USA

Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Lisa Van Der Werff, Dublin City University Business School, Ireland

Former Editors
Peter Ping Li, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China (Founding Editor) – 2011-2016
Guido Möllering , Universität Witten/Herdecke, Germany – 2017-2022

Area Editors
Amanda Isabel Osuna, University of Tampa, USA
Nicole Gillespie, University of Queensland, Australia
Kirsimarja Blomqvist, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Finland
Ben Seyd, University of Kent, UK
Edward Tomlinson, University of South Florida, USA

Editorial Board
Reinhard Bachmann, SOAS University of London, UK
Katinka M. Bijlsma-Frankema, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Michelle Bligh,  Claremont Graduate University, USA
C. Shawn Burke,  University of Central Florida, USA
Rachel Campagna,  University of New Hampshire, USA
Cecily Cooper, University of Miami, USA
Ana Cristina Costa,  University of Leicester, UK
Craig Crossley,  University of Central Florida, USA
T. K. Das, City University of New York, USA
Kathleen Darcy,  University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
James Davis,  Utah State University, USA
Bart de Jong,  Durham University Business School, UK
Jan Delhey,  University of Magdeburg, Germany
Peter Eberl,  University of Kassel, Germany
Tony Fang, Stockholm University, Sweden
Morten Frederiksen,  Aalborg University, Denmark
Alexandra Gerbasi, University of Exeter, UK
Mark Hansen,  Brigham Young University, USA
S. Duane Hansen, Western Oregon University, USA
Geoffrey Hosking, University College London, UK
Tamar Kugler,  University of Arizona, USA
Rico Lam,  University of Macau, China
Dominika Latusek-Jurczak, Kozminski University, Poland
Roy Lewicki,  Ohio State University, USA
Steve Lockey, University of Queensland, Australia
Chris Long,  St. John's University (NYC), USA
Roger Mayer,  North Carolina State University, USA
Bill McEvily,  University of Toronto, Canada
Aneil Mishra,  East Carolina University, USA
Alexandra Mislin,  American University, USA
Ann-Marie Nienaber,  Coventry University, UK
Laura Poppo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Denise Rousseau,  Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Simon Schafheitle, University of Twente, the Netherlands
Oliver Schilke,  University of Arizona, USA
Rosalind Searle,  University of Glasgow, UK
Sabina Siebert, University of Glasgow, UK
Tony Simons,  Cornell University, USA
Frédérique Six, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Piotr Sztompka, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Rosalie Tung, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Shay Tzafrir,  University of Haifa, Israel
S. Arzu Wasti, Sabanci University, Turkey
S. Nazli Wasti,  Middle East Technical University, Turkey
James Weinberg,  University of Sheffield, UK
Nicholas Wheeler,  University of Birmingham, UK

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News and offers

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