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Reinhard Bachmann is Professor of International Management, Director of the Centre for Trust Research and Head of the School of Finance and Management at SOAS (formally known as the School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London. He has published widely on inter-organisational and institutional trust. His articles have appeared in journals such as Organization Studies , Cambridge Journal of Economics , British Journal of Sociology , Journal of Trust Research etc. He has also edited (together with Akbar Zaheer) the Handbook of Trust Research (2008) and the Handbook of Advances in Trust Research (2013). Among his previous academic employers are the University of Groningen, ETH Zurich and the University of Cambridge.

Michael Baer is an assistant professor at Arizona State Universitys W. P. Carey School of Business, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship. He received his PhD from the University of Georgias Terry College of Business. He earned an MBA and a BA from Brigham Young University. His research focuses on trust (of course), fairness and impression management.

Laurie J. Barclay is an associate professor in the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Barclays research interests include organisational justice, emotions and workplace aggression. Her most recent work focuses on the role of emotions in justice and how individuals can effectively recover from unfair workplace experiences, including how to facilitate forgiveness in organisations. Her research has been published in leading journals (e.g. The Academy of Management Annals , the Journal of Applied Psychology , the Journal of Management , Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes ) and she has received numerous research awards including the Ontario Early Researcher Award.

Robert J. Bies is Professor of Management and Founder of the Executive Masters in Leadership Program at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He is a faculty fellow of the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching, & Service at Georgetown University. Professor Biess current research focuses on leadership, the delivery of bad news, organisational justice, trust and distrust dynamics and revenge, forgiveness and mercy in the workplace. His research has been published in leading journals (e.g . The Academy of Management Annals , Academy of Management Journal , Academy of Management Review , Journal of Applied Psychology , Journal of Management , Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes ). He is also co-author of the book, Getting Even: The Truth About Workplace Revengeand How to Stop It .

Katinka M. Bijlsma-Frankema retired as Associate Professor of Organization Theory at VU University, Amsterdam and Professor of Organization Sciences at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management. She is now Senior Researcher at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Her research interests include trust, distrust, control, team learning and performance of teams. She is Founder and past Chair of the First International Network on Trust (FINT). She co-edited special issues on trust (and control), including Group and Organization Management (2007) and edited volumes on trust (Edward Elgar, 2005) and organizational control (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Douglas Bilton is the Assistant Director of Standards and Policy at the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care, where he has worked since 2006. Prior to this, he read English Literature at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, then worked at the British Medical Association on the negotiation of senior hospital doctors terms and conditions, a London teaching hospital implementing a new NHS consultant contract and a London strategic health authority in medical human resources. He holds a Masters in Public Administration from Warwick Business School. He is the co-author of various publications on health professional regulation policy including Asymmetry of Influence: The Role of Regulators in Patient Safety (The Health Foundation, 2013); Rethinking Regulation (Professional Standards Authority, 2015); and Regulation Rethought (Professional Standards Authority, 2016).

Kirsimarja Blomqvist is a professor for knowledge management at the School of Business and Management at Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Finland. Her research focuses on trust, knowledge, innovation and digitalisation in new forms of organising. Her research articles have been published, for example, in California Management Review , Scandinavian Journal of Management , Creativity and Innovation Management , Research Policy , R&D Management , Technovation and Industrial Marketing Management . She also serves as Assistant Editor for the Journal of Trust Research and an editorial review board member for Industrial Marketing Management , the Journal of Organization Design and the Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management .

Anna Brattstrm is an assistant professor at Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Sweden. Her research focuses on innovation, entrepreneurship and collaboration. Her work has been published, for example, in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice , Research Policy and the Journal of Product Innovation Management and Small Business Economics . In 2015, she was a finalist for the ISPIM and Wiley Innovation Management Dissertation Award and she received the Swedish Forum of Entrepreneurship Young Scholar Award.