2012 Awards for Excellence

Citation

(2013), "2012 Awards for Excellence", International Journal of Commerce and Management, Vol. 23 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijcoma.2013.34823aaa.003

2012 Awards for Excellence

Article Type: 2012 Awards for Excellence From: International Journal of Commerce and Management, Volume 23, Issue 1

The following article was selected for this year's Outstanding Paper Award for International Journal of Commerce and Management

“A cross-cultural study of coworker trust”

Robert D. Costigan, Richard C. Instinga and J. Jason BermanSt John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, USA

Grazyna KranasWarsaw University, Warsaw, Poland

Vladimir A. KureshovThe Higher Business School, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between an employee's trust of coworkers and that employee's enterprising behavior. The extent to which cultural dimensions, in-group collectivism and power distance, moderate the trustbehavior relationship is considered.

Design/methodology/approach – A rigorous research methodology was employed to minimize potential problems with common method variance. Trust ratings were provided by 135 US, 203 Turkish, 100 Polish, and 86 Russian focal employees. Their 524 coworkers provided enterprising behavior ratings for these focal employees.

Findings – The results show that both cognitive- and affect-based trusts of coworkers is associated with enterprising behavior. The findings also indicate that the affect-based trust/enterprising behavior relationship is stronger in higher power distance cultures than in lower power distance cultures. In-group collectivism, however, does not moderate the trust enterprising behavior relationships.

Originality/value – Trust is thought to nurture enterprising behavior in the workplace. This study looks at the relationship between trust of coworkers and enterprising behavior, an under investigated but key behavior in the modern organization. The moderating role of power distance implies that organizational interventions promoting affect-based trust in coworker relationships may have bigger payoffs as far as behavior change in the high-power distance context than in the low.

Keywords Collectivism, Coworker, Cross cultural studies, Culture, Enterprising, Power distance, Trust

www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/10569211111144328

This article originally appeared in Volume 21 Number 2, 2011, pp. 103-21 International Journal of Commerce and Management

The following articles were selected for this year's Highly Commended Award

“Cultural basis of high performance organizations”

Vipin Gupta

This article originally appeared in Volume 21 Number 3, 2011, International Journal of Commerce and Management

“The speed of knowledge transfer within multinational enterprises: the role of social capital”

Jiun-Shiu Chen and Al S. Lovvorn

This article originally appeared in Volume 21 Number 1, 2011, International Journal of Commerce and Management

“Customer satisfaction and universal banks: an empirical study”

Jaspal Singh and Gagandeep Kaur

This article originally appeared in Volume 21 Number 4, 2011, International Journal of Commerce and Management

Outstanding Reviewers

Hooshang M. BeheshtiRadford University, USA

Professor Paul M. SwierczThe George Washington University, USA