Trust, Power and Public Sector Leadership

Trust, Power and Public Sector Leadership: A Relational Approach provides a critical theoretical treatment of trust in the realm of public management and governance.

Steen Vallentin is Associate Professor in the Department of Management, Society and Communication at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is Academic Director of the CBS Sustainability center. Apart from trust, his research and teaching is centered on CSR (corporate social responsibility) and developments in the realm of sustainability, with a particular focus on the governmental, political and ideological underpinnings of modern debates about corporate sustainability. His research is published in journals such as Journal of Trust Research , Organization , Business Ethics Quarterly , Business & Society and Journal of Business Ethics. He has coauthored several Danish- language books and articles about public sector trust.

Chapter 1 - Approaching Public Sector Trust, Chapter 2 - Trust Paradigms in Public Management, Chapter 3 - Trust and Power, Chapter 4 - Social Capital and the Gift Economy, Chapter 5 - Relational Trust and Social Capital in Practice, Chapter 6 - Trust, Leadership and Technology: Old Conundrums and New Openings