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Director of the Center for Trust Studies, Professor of Management and Organizations, University of Arizona

Oliver Schilke is a Professor in the Management and Organizations Department and a Professor (by courtesy) in the School of Sociology at the University of Arizona. He is also the Director of the Center for Trust Studies at the University of Arizona. He studies trust, organizational routines, and legitimacy and is interested in interorganizational relationships, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Sociology (by courtesy), University of Arizona
  • –present
    Director, Center for Trust Studies, University of Arizona
  • –present
    Professor of Management and Organizations, University of Arizona
  • –present
    External Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, Stanford University

Education

  • 2014 
    UCLA, PhD in Sociology
  • 2010 
    UCLA, Master of Arts in Sociology
  • 2009 
    Stanford University, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  • 2007 
    Witten Herdecke University (Germany), Ph.D. in Management

Publications

  • 2024
    How organizational is interorganizational trust?, Academy of Management Review
  • 2024
    The power to reward vs. the power to punish: the influence of power framing on individual-level exploration, Organization Science
  • 2024
    Honor among crooks: the role of trust in obfuscated disreputable exchange, American Sociological Review
  • 2023
    Primer for experimental Methods in organization theory, Organization Science
  • 2023
    The dual function of organizational structure: aggregating and shaping individuals' votes, Organization Science
  • 2023
    A review of experimental research on organizational trust, Journal of Trust Research
  • 2023
    Organizational trust in the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: shifts in the nature, production, and targets of trust, Journal of Management Inquiry
  • 2022
    Impression management attenuates the effect of ability on trust in economic exchange, roceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2021
    Neither acquiescence nor defiance: Tuscan wineries' 'flexible reactivity' to the Italian government's quality regulation system, British Journal of Sociology
  • 2021
    Legitimacy revisited: disentangling propriety, validity, and consensus, Journal of Management Studies
  • 2021
    An interaction ritual theory of social resource exchange: evidence from a Silicon Valley accelerator, Administrative Science Quarterl
  • 2021
    Trust in social relations, Annual Review of Sociology
  • 2021
    Blockchain governance - a new way of organizing collaborations?, Organization Science
  • 2020
    Towards a theory of micro-institutional processes: forgotten roots, links to social-psychological research, and new ideas, Research in the Sociology of Organizations
  • 2019
    Embeddedness across governance modes: is there a link between pre-merger alliances and divestitures?, Academy of Management Discoveries
  • 2018
    A micro-institutional inquiry into resistance to environmental pressures, Academy of Management Journal
  • 2018
    It's only wrong if it's transactional: moral perceptions of obfuscated exchange, American Sociological Review
  • 2018
    Trust development across levels of analysis: an embedded-agency perspective, Journal of Trust Research
  • 2018
    The double-edged effect of contracts on alliance performance., Journal of Management
  • 2018
    Quo vadis, dynamic capabilities? A content-analytic review of the current state of knowledge and recommendations for future research, Academy of Management Annals
  • 2018
    Worthy of trust? How brief interpersonal contact affects trust accuracy, Journal of Applied Psychology,
  • 2017
    Trust is heritable, whereas distrust is not, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2017
    Interorganizational trust production contingent on product and performance uncertainty, Socio-Economic Review,
  • 2015
    Power decreases trust in social exchange, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2015
    Sources of alliance partner trustworthiness: integrating calculative and relational perspectives, Strategic Management Journal,
  • 2014
    On the contingent value of dynamic capabilities for competitive advantage: the nonlinear moderating effect of environmental dynamism, Strategic Management Journal
  • 2014
    Second-order dynamic capabilities: how do they matter?, Academy of Management Perspectives
  • 2014
    Close, but no cigar: the bimodal rewards to prize-seeking, American Sociological Review
  • 2013
    Effect of relationship experience on trust recovery following a breach, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2013
    A cross-level process theory of trust development in interorganizational relationships, Strategic Organization

Grants and Contracts

  • 2020
    CAREER Award: Bilateral Extensions to Studying Trust in Organizations
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    National Science Foundation

Professional Memberships

  • Academy of Management

Research Areas

  • Business And Management (1503)
  • Policy And Administration (1605)
  • Sociology (1608)

Honours

NSF CAREER Awardee, SMS Emerging Scholar