ABSTRACT Jared D. Harris, Brian T. Moriarty, and Andrew C. Wicks’ recent book collects 11 chapters by well-known scholars on the question of public trust in business, published along with an introduction and conclusion by the editors. But the collection does not make progress on what this reviewer takes to be the two essential questions. This review outlines those questions and then addresses a further, more technical difficulty with the conceptualisations of trust at work across the chapters. The central theme here is that business as an institution has obligations to society; we – the public – trust business to act on those obligations; and when business violates those obligations our trust is betrayed. The essays collected in this volume do not directly address the question of what those obligations are, but this should be the starting point for an investigation of public trust in business.

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公众对企业的信任问题。评论Jared D. Harris，Brian T. Moriarty和Andrew C. Wicks（ed。），《商业公共信任》。剑桥：剑桥大学出版社，2014年

摘要贾里德·D·哈里斯（Jared D. Harris），布莱恩·T·莫里亚蒂（Brian T. Moriarty）和安德鲁·C·威克斯（Andrew C. Wicks）的最新著作收录了著名学者关于商业对公众信任问题的11章，并随同编辑作了介绍和结论。但是，在该审稿人将其视为两个基本问题之前，该收录并没有取得进展。这篇综述概述了这些问题，然后在各章的工作中解决了信任的概念化方面的另一个更大的技术难题。这里的中心主题是，作为机构的商业对社会负有责任；我们–公众–信任企业可以履行这些义务；当企业违反这些义务时，我们的信任就会被出卖。本卷中收集的论文没有直接解决这些义务是什么的问题，