Cooperation, trust and confidence
conference paper
Environmental complexity may strain cooperative relationships, both within and beyond organizations, for two reasons. First, when complexity implies uncertainty the predictability of change disappears. Secondly, change may and often will entail different estimates of the cooperating partners on the urgency, attractiveness and scope of future collaboration. In this context relations of trust and confidence assume a new significance, sketched with two examples. One is the Dutch practice of the covenant, two is derived from an existing industrial network in Portugal. Limits on the capacity of government and limits on the realm of planning and design imply a rearrangement of relations and boundaries of trust and confidence. Given a growing complexity of present-day society, readily identifiable markers of where the risks you take end and the dangers you run begin, are no longer available. By the same token relations of trust (pertaining to the aspect of risk) and relations of confidence (pertaining to the aspect of danger) are in for rearranging: the rearrangement of the relations and boundaries of trust and confidence. We will, in our purpose in exploring this topic on governance, point out to some aspects of the network and the covenant in producing trust and confidence in cooperative relationships. The paper ends with a number of theses for discussion.
TNO Identifier
575411
Source title
23rd EGOS Colloquium 2007 Beyond Waltz – Dances of Individuals and Organizations Subtheme 8 Trust and Law, Vienna (Austria), July 5-6, 2007
Collation
31 p.
Place of publication
Vienna
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