• Employee evaluation of leader-initiated crisis preparation 

      Selart, Marcus; Johansen, Svein Tvedt; Nesse, Synnøve (Working paper;35/12, Working paper, 2012-10)
      Crisis prevention plans are usually evaluated based on their effects in terms of preventing or limiting organizational crisis. In this survey-based study, the focus was instead on how such plans influence employees’ reactions ...
    • Envisioning trust: Metaphors and situations 

      Johansen, Svein Tvedt; Espedal, Bjarne; Grønhaug, Kjell; Selart, Marcus (Conference object, 2013)
      In this article we argue that the experience and effects of trust are influenced by how people construe trust in specific situations – people are not merely passive receptacles of information but bring their own understanding ...
    • Expanding the Role of Trust in Organizational Change 

      Johansen, Svein Tvedt; Selart, Marcus (Chapter, 2005)
      Trust has a great potential for furtheri ng our understanding of organizational change and learning. This potential however remains largely untapped. It is argued that two reasons as for why this potential remains ...
    • Kontrolltap i konsulent-klient relasjoner : et forslag til en modell 

      Johansen, Svein Tvedt (Rapport, Research report, 2001-08)
      Rapporten presenterer en teoretisk utledet modell for å forstå medarbeideres reaksjoner på ulike konsulentroller i en organisasjon. En sentral antakelse i rapporten er at medarbeideres reaksjoner kan forstås ut i fra ...
    • The How's and Why's of Trust: On Goals, Mind-sets and Trust 

      Johansen, Svein Tvedt; Selart, Marcus Oliver (Conference object, 2011)
      In this paper we seek to disentangle goals and trust, and argue that people’s goals in interacting with other people influence the experience of trust. The experience of trust is not merely a cause of interaction and risk ...
    • Towards a motivational cognitive model of trust 

      Selart, Marcus; Grønhaug, Kjell; Johansen, Svein Tvedt (Conference object, 2007)
      The article looks at the effects of risk on the formation of initial trust. It argues that risk influences the content of trust or the importance a trustor places on benevolence versus ability. A difference in emphasis on ...
    • Trust as a decision problem or performance 

      Johansen, Svein Tvedt; Selart, Marcus; Grønhaug, Kjell (Journal article, 2009)
      Established theories on trust-development explain trust as a product of information, portraying individuals as passive receptacles of trust-related information. These theories however tend to ignore the goals of the trustor. ...
    • Trust in initial encounters : a motivational, cognitive theory 

      Johansen, Svein Tvedt (Doctoral thesis, 2007)
      In this dissertation I develop a theoretical model on the effects of risk on the formation of trust in the initial stages of a relationship. Risk is proposed to influence trust in two ways: First, risk exerts a direct ...