Restoring Social Trust

From Populism to Synodality

Author(s):   Prof. Dr. James Keenan

Theological Studies, 2023

Social trust has been compromised locally, nationally, and globally, and very recently more and more social scientists, ethicists, theologians, and civic leaders have highlighted its necessity for the function of social

Subject: Religion, Ethics, Social Trust, Theology.

Social Trust and the Ethics of Our Institutions

Author(s):   Prof. Dr. James Keenan

Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 2022

Social trust is the basic resource for our institutions and is notably maintained by leaders who have what I call a vulnerable style and a vigilant capacity to recognize ethical challenges on the horizon. The essay follows five steps: a meditation on social trust, an introduction to the notion of style, and a proposal for a vulnerable style so as to become collectively capacious for recognition. Then it turns to the two institutions under examination at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics (SCE): the church and the academy. 

Subject: Religion, Ethics, Social Trust, Theology.

Inspiring Trust

Church Communications and Organizational Vulnerability

Author(s):   Prof. Dr. Juan Narbona

Edusc, 2021

Cultural and social changes, together with scandals and the incoherence of some groups, led citizens to evaluate organisations more rigorously than ever before. Since then, a culture of suspicion towards political parties, financial institutions, trade unions, the media and also - of course - the Church, has been the norm. This book contains a collection of articles by a variety of authors on a central theme: trust. As a background, the current distrust of the Catholic Church is addressed in many cases.

Subject: Religion, Social Trust.

Second Acts and Second Chances

The Bumpy Road to Redemption

Author(s):   Prof. Dr. Robert J. Bies, Laurie J. Barclay, Thomas M. Tripp

Journal of Management Inquiry, 2021

Throughout history, there are numerous examples of business and government leaders who have fallen from grace only to rise again, and have a “second act” and a “second chance” as a legitimate social actor or leader—that is, they achieved redemption. We explore “the road to redemption” of leaders—when and why it occurs, and what “bumps” prevent it. In our analysis, we conceptualize redemption as a process with three elements—remorse, rehabilitation, and restoration—and as an outcome (the restoration of legitimacy). We argue that achieving redemption is not a product of chance; rather, it is a social construction process of narrative creation and identity construction involving many parties. Also, the road to redemption is shaped by cultural-specific factors—and it is temporally dependent. From this framework, we identify new directions for the theory and practice of leadership.

Subject: Redemption, Leadership, Management, Business.

At the crossroads of trust and distrust

Skepticism and ambivalence towards business.

Author(s):   Prof. Dr. Robert J. Bies

Public Trust in Business (Cambridge University Press), 2014

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Subject: Trust And Distrust, Management, Business.

Trust and Distrust

New Relationships and Realities

Author(s):   Prof. Dr. Robert J. Bies, Roy J. Lewicki, Daniel J. McAllister

The Academy of Management Review, 1998

We propose a new theoretical framework for understanding simultaneous trust and distrust within relationships, grounded in assumptions of multidimensionality and the inherent tensions of relationships, and we separate th

Subject: Management, Distrust, Business.