Guido Möllering

Guido Möllering is the Director of the Reinhard Mohn Institute of Management at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany, where he also holds the Reinhard Mohn Endowed Chair of Management. He earned his PhD in Management Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK, and his habilitation (postdoctoral degree, venia legendi) in Business Administration at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His main areas of research are inter-organizational relationships, organizational fields, and trust. Professor Möllering published several books, notably Trust: Reason, Routine, Reflexivity (2006), and articles in leading journals such as Organization Science and Journal of International Business Studies. He is a Senior Editor of Organization Studies and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Trust Research.

Selected recent publications by Prof. Dr. Guido Möllering:

• Fernandes, Elieti B., Wegner, Douglas, & Möllering, Guido (2023). Governance of Interorganizational Projects: A Process-Based Approach Applied to a Latin American–European Case. Project Management Journal, online first
• Henry, L. A. & Möllering, G. (2022), Sluggish, but innovative? Orchestrating collaboration in multi-stakeholder networks despite low commitment, Innovation: Organization & Management, open access
• Henry, L.A., Rasche, A. & Möllering, G. (2022), Managing competing demands: Coping with the inclusiveness-efficiency paradox in cross-sector partnerships, Business & Society 61 (2), 267-304
• Child, J. & Möllering, G. (2021), Partizipation in Unternehmen in der Zukunft nach Corona. In: Reinhard-Mohn-Institut für Unternehmensführung (Ed.), Was heißt unternehmerische Verantwortung heute? Reflexionen zum 100. Geburtstag Reinhard Mohns, 92-106
• Möllering, G. (2021), Partnerschaft: Reinhard Mohns Erfolgsrezept. In: Reinhard-Mohn-Institut für Unternehmensführung (Ed.), Was heißt unternehmerische Verantwortung heute? Reflexionen zum 100. Geburtstag Reinhard Mohns, 26-42
• Möllering, G. & Wilhelm, H. (2021), Unternehmerische Verantwortung in Forschung, Lehre und Praxisdialog. In: Reinhard-Mohn-Institut für Unternehmensführung (Ed.), Was heißt unternehmerische Verantwortung heute? Reflexionen zum 100. Geburtstag Reinhard Mohns, 178-186
• Möllering, G. (2020), Communicating (about) trust, Journal of Trust Research, 10 (1), 1-3
• Svare, H., Gausdal, A., & Möllering, G. (2020), The function of ability, benevolence, and integrity-based trust in innovation networks, Industry and Innovation, 27 (6), 585-604.
• Möllering, G. (2019), Putting a spotlight on the trustor in trust research, Journal of Trust Research 9 (2), 131-135 
• Möllering, G., & Sydow, J. (2019), Trust trap? Self-reinforcing processes in the constitution of inter-organizational trust, M. Sasaki (Hg.) Trust in Contemporary Society, 141-160
• Rosca, E., Möllering, G., Rijal, A., & Bendul, J. (2019), Supply chain inclusion in Base of the Pyramid markets: A cluster analysis and implications for global supply chains, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 49 (5), 575-598
• Möllering, G., Müller-Seitz, G. (2018), Direction, Not Destination: Institutional Work Practices in the Face of Field-level Uncertainty, European Management Journal 36 (1), 28-37
• Möllering, G. (2017), Cultivating the Field of Trust Research, Journal of Trust Research 7 (2), 107-114
• Möllering, G. (2017), How to Analyze Transformative Processes in the Constitution of Markets? The Example of Solar Power Technology in Germany 1990–2007. In: S. Giacovelli (Ed.): Die Energiewende aus wirtschaftssoziologischer Sicht. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien, 149-179
• Gausdal, A.H., Svare, H., Möllering, G. (2016), Why Don’t All High-trust Networks Achieve Strong Network Benefits? A Case-based Exploration of Cooperation in Norwegian SME Networks, Journal of Trust Research 6 (2), 194-212
• Zolfaghari, B., Möllering, G., Clark, T., Dietz, G. (2016), How Do We Adopt Multiple Cultural Identities? A Multidimensional Operationalization of the Sources of Culture, European Management Journal 34 (2), 102-113
• Nikolova, N., Möllering, G., Reihlen, M. (2015), Trusting as a ‘Leap of Faith’: Trust-Building Practices in Client-Consultant Relationships, Scandinavian Journal of Management 31 (2), 232-245 
• Lyon, F., Möllering, G., Saunders, M.N.K. (Eds.) (2015), Handbook of Research Methods on Trust, 2nd Edition. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
• Sydow, J., Möllering, G. (2015), Produktion in Netzwerken: Make, Buy & Cooperate, 3rd Edition. Munich: Verlag Vahlen

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