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Building Trust in Business Schools Through Ethical Governance

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This paper presents conceptual arguments to suggest that trust within organizations and trustworthiness of organizations are built through ethical governance mechanisms. We ground our analysis of trust, trustworthiness, and stewardship in the business literature and provide the context of business school governance as the focus of our paper. We present a framework that highlights the importance of knowledge, resources, performance focus, transparency, authentic caring, social capital and citizenship expectations in creating a basis for the ethical governance of organizations.

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  1. College of Business and Management, University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL, 62703, USA

    Ranjan Karri

  2. School of Business Administration, Weber State University, Ogden, UT, 84408, USA

    Cam Caldwell

  3. Advanced Institute of Management Research, GNOSIS, Management School, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England

    Elena P. Antonacopoulou

  4. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA

    Daniel C. Naegle

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Karri, R., Caldwell, C., Antonacopoulou, E.P. et al. Building Trust in Business Schools Through Ethical Governance. J Acad Ethics 3, 159–182 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-006-9012-6

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