Trust, Inter-organizational Relationships, Alliance Contracting, Dispute/Conflict/Power, Asian/Chinese business relationships

 

A Research Bibliography

 

 

October 2003

 

 

Prepared by John McMullan, email john@mcmullan.net

                       Peter Morgan, email pmorgan@mcmullan.net

 

 

This bibliography is a supplement to our online bibliography dealing with Alliance Contracting:

 

See: Alliance Contracting: A Resource and Research Bibliography (2002) http://www.mcmullan.net/eclj/Alliance_Contracting.htm

 

The following references deal with some of the central issues to emerge from the considerable research literature now available on the project delivery practice and method known as  alliance contracting”.

 

Most references are available on the Internet. To retrive any reference we suggest using the search engine www. goggle.com and typing the authors `name’ + first three words of `title’.

 

 

Bibliography

 

Allen, A. (2000) `Successful Relationships Between Contractors and Clients’, 2000 European Oil Refining Conference, Berlin, online paper.

 

Bachmann, R. (1999) `Trust, Power and Control in Trans-Organizational Relations’, paper presented at SASE conference, Madison/Wisconsin, online paper.

 

Bachmann, R. (2000) `Trust and Power as Means of Coordinating the Internal Relations of the Organisation: A Conceptual Framework’, online paper.

 

Bell, D. (nd) `Quanxi’, at http://orion.oac.uni.edu/~dbell/html/body_quanxi.html

 

Bell, D. (2000) `Guanxi: A Nesting of Groups’, Current Anthropology, 41:1, online paper.

 

Bell, D and C. Avenarius. (1999) `Guanxi, Bribery and Ideological Hegemony’,

at http://orion.oac.uci.edu/~dbell/html/body_bribery.htm

 

Brainov, S and T Sandholm. (nd) `Contracting within Uncertain Level of Trust’, online paper

 

Brandt, S and J. Murphy. (2000) `Productive Conflict Management in the Construction Industry’, paper presented at the ASC Conference, at http://aseditor.unl.edu/archives/2000/brand00.htm

 

Bresnen, M. (1999) `Institutional and Cultural Barriers to Effective Knowledge Transfer’, paper for CRISP Consultancy Commission, online paper.

 

Brensen, M. et al (2002) `Implementing new management initiatives in project organization’, paper presented at Innovative Research in Management, European Academy of Management 2 Annual Conference, online paper.

 

Child, J. and G. Mollering. (2001) `The Development of Organizational Trust in the Chinese Business Context’, at http://bham.ac.uk/business/papers/trustpaper.htm

 

Chung, Wai-keung. (nd) `Guanxi Logic and the Chinese Business Practices’, online paper.

 

Collins, G. (2002) `Trust’, Employment Research Centre, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, online paper.

 

Das, T. (2001) `Trust, Control, and Risk in Strategic Alliances: An Integrated Framework’, Organizational Studies, March, at http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m4339/2_22/7668287/print.jhtml

 

Das, T. and Bing-Sheng Teng. (2002) `Partner Analysis, Alliance Conditions, and Alliance Performance’, paper presented at the Rutgers Business School Organisation Management Seminar Series, online paper.

 

Dibben, M. (2001) `Trust As Process: A Study in the application of Whiteheadian thinking to emotional experience’, online paper.

 

Dunfee, T. et al (2001) `Is Guanxi Ethical? A Normative Analysis of Doing Business in China’, Journal of Business Ethics, 32:3, 191-204, online paper.

 

Dunn, J. (2000) `Trust and Political Agency’, in D. Gambetta (ed), Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations, electronic edition, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, chapter 5, pp 73-93, <http://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/papers/dunn73-93.pdf>

 

Farrell, H. (nd) `Trust and Political Economy: Institutions and the Source of Inter-firm Cooperation’, Max-Planck Project Group on Common Goods, online paper.

 

Friedman, R et al (2000) `What Goes Around Comes Around: The Impact of Personal Conflict Style on Work Conflict and Stress’, The International Journal of Conflict Management, 11:1, 32-55, online paper.

 

Gambetta, D. (2000) `Can We Trust Trust?’, in D. Gambetta (ed), Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations, electronic edition, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, chapter 6, 94-107, http://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/papers/gambetta213-237.pdf

 

Gawne, J. (2001) `The Strategic Alliance: An Alternative to Traditional Contracts’, Tenix Alliance, online paper.

 

Ghauri, P. and T. Fang. (nd) `The Chinese Business Negotiation Process: A Socio-Cultural Analysis’, online paper.

 

Guennif, S and S Plociniczak. (2003) `From Bilateral Enforcement to Strutural Enforcement in Economic Transactions: The Network Effect’, DRUID Academy 2003 Ph D Conference, online paper.

 

Gulati, R. (2001) `Alliances and Networks’, J L Kellogg Graduate School of Management, online paper.

 

Gulati, R and H.Singh. (1998) `The Architecture of Cooperation: Managing Coordination Costs and Appropriation Concerns in Strategic Alliances’, Administrative Science Quarterly, online article.

 

Harrison, D. (nd) `Is a Long-term Business Relationship an Implied Contract?: Two views of a Relationship Disengagement’, Lancaster University Management School, online paper.

 

Huff, L and L. Kelly. (nd) `Is Collectivism a Liability?: The Impact of Culture on Organisational Trust, Customer Orientation and Employee Satisfaction – a Seven-Nation Study’, online paper.

 

Jalava, J. (2002) `From Norms to Trust’, paper presented at the Forschungskolloquim Systmtheorie, University of Bielefield, online paper.

 

Jessop, B. (2002) `The Governance of Complexity and the Complexity of Governance: Preliminary Remarks on some Problems and Limits of Economic Guidance’, published by the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University at: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/soc24rj.html

 

Jorgensen, K. (nd) `Power, knowledge and organizing’, Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Learning, Aalborg University, online paper.

 

Krug, B. and F. Belschak. (2001) `Combining Commerce and Culture: Establishing Business Relations in China’, ERIM Report Series Research in Management, Erasmus Research Institute of Management, Erasmus University, www.erin.eur.nl

 

Locke, M. (2001) `Value Management in Lon Term Relationships’, paper presented at the 4th European Project Management Conference, London, online paper.

 

Lorenz, E. (2000) `Neither Friends nor Strangers: Informal Networks of Subcontracting in French Industry’, in D. Gambetta (ed), Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations, electronic edition, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, chapter 6, pp 194-210, http://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/papers/lorenz194-210.pdf

 

Luhmann, N. (2000) `Familiarity, Confidence, Trust: Problems and Alternatives’, in D. Gambetta (ed), Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations, electronic edition, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, chapter 6, 94-107, http://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/papers/luhmann94-107.pdf

 

McKnight, D. and N. Chervany. (1996) `The Meaning of Trust’, MISRC Working Paper Series, online paper.

 

McMillan, J. and C. Woodruff. (1999) `Dispute Prevention without Courts in Vietnam’, online paper.

 

Mazlish, B. (2000) `Invisible Ties: From Patronage to Networks’, Theory, Culture and Society, 17:2, 1-19.

 

Mollering, G (2002) `Traditional, Institutional and Active Trust: Just Do It’, paper for the Track: Trust Within and Between Organizations, online paper.

 

Nooteboom, B.   (1999) `The Triangle: Roles of the Network’, online paper.

 

Nooteboom, B. (2002) `A Balanced Theory of  Sourcing, Collaboration and Networks’, ERIM Report Series Research in Management, Erasmus Research Institute of Management, Erasmus University, www.erim.eur.nl

 

Rae, T. and C. Eden. (2002) `On Project Success and Failure in Major Engineering Projects’, paper for the European Academy of Management, online paper.

 

Sayer, A. (2000) `Markets, Embeddedness and Trust: Problems of Polysemy and Idealism’, published by the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University at:  http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/soc047as.html

 

Sewell, G. (nd) `Peering Behind the Mask of Trust: Between Trust and Control in Contemporary Organisations’, Department of Management Working Paper No 5, University of Melbourne, online paper.

 

Soekijad, M. (2002) `The competitive factor in knowledge sharing networks’, paper presented at OKLC 2002 Conference, Athens, online paper.

 

Shin-yi Peng. (2000) `The WTO Legalistic Approach and East Asia: From the Legal Culture Perspective’, Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal, 13,

at http://www.hawaii.edu/aplpj/1/13b.html

 

Spekle, R. (2002) `Mapping Variety in Hierarchical Governance’, paper presented at ISNIE Annual Meeting, online paper.

 

Swan, J. et al (2001) `Knowledge Management and the Colonization of knowledge’, paper presented to CMS Conference, online paper.

 

Swan, W. et al (2002) `Trust in Construction: Achieving Culttural Change’, Centre for Construction Innovation in the North West, online paper.

 

Tam, T. et al (nd) `The Determinants of Xieyishu in Chinese Business Networks’, at http://www.cbpp.uaa.alaska.edu/afef/xieyishu.htm

 

Trienekens, J. (2002) `Views on inter-enterprise relationships’, online paper,

 

Vaaland, T and H Hakansson. (nd) `Exploring interorganizational conflict in complex projects’, online paper.

 

Voordijk, H. (nd) `Project Alliances: Crossing Company Boundaries in the Building Industry’, online paper.

 

Williamson, O. (2002) `The Lens of Contract: Private Ordering’, online paper.

 

Woo-Cumings. M. (2001) `Diverse Paths toward “the Right Institutions”: Law, the State, and Economic Reform in East Asia’, Asian Development Bank Institute Working Paper 18, online paper.

 

Woolthuis, R; B. Hillebrand; B. Nooteboom. (2002) `Trust and Formal Control in Interorganisational Relationships’, ERIM Report Series Research in Management, Erasmus Research Institute of Management, Erasmus University, www.erim.eur.nl

 

Yates, D. (nd) `Conflict and Disputes in the Development Process: A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective’, online paper.