Centre for Trust Studies
Center for Trust Studies
The Center for Trust Studies drives forward interdisciplinary research on trust. We push the boundaries of knowledge and management practice through our cutting-edge research on trust and our deep engagement with business and government. We bring together faculty and students sharing an interest in trust studies, foster external collaborations with scientists, managers and policy makers.
Established by prof. Dominika Latusek-Jurczak, the Center has a track of succesful funding and publishing, providing a strong contribution to the research of Poland's top business school.
Center's Head: Prof. Dominika Latusek-Jurczak
Center for Trust Studies was established by Prof. Dominika Latusek-Jurczak who is a Full Professor in Management with vast experience in organization theory and studying trust and interorganizational relations. She is the Head of The Department of Management at Kozminski University. Dominika has published books and journal articles on trust in Poland and abroad. Her experience includes leading a major project on case studies in business education in Poland (www.studiumprzypadku.edu.pl). Currently, she is a partner in Horizon 2020 consortium grant TiGRE (Trust in Governance and Regulation in Europe) and works on the >OPUS< Grant from the National Science Foundation on trust and control in interorganizational relationships.
Centre's Faculty
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dr Svetlana Gudkova
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Prof. Dariusz Jemielniak
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Prof. Grzegorz Mazurek
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dr Miłosz Miszczyński
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Prof. Tomasz Olejniczak
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dr Anna Pikos
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Zofia Przymus
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Rafał Staszek Vel Staszewski
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Prof. Marta Strumińska-Kutra
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dr Marcin Wardaszko
Our projects: TiGRE (Horizon 2020)
Trust in Governance and Regulation in Europe
In TiGRE we investigate under which conditions regulatory regimes are trusted by analysing the interactions between the involved actors. We aim to draw a more encompassing picture of trust dynamics and understand their drivers as well as their political and socio-economic effects. TiGRE is a multidisciplinary research project which benefits from the expertise of nine top-level universities and research centres and one SME, from nine different countries, bringing together a broad range of theoretical and methodological skills. TiGRE receives funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The project started on 1 January 2020 and will run until 30 June 2023.
Our Projects: The National Science Centre
The growing importance of partnerships between companies is considered to be one of the most important trends. Despite the key role of trust and control in the management of inter-organizational relations, we still do not fully understand what the relationship is and how it evolves over time. In this research project we plan to run three interrelated field studies: (1) a quantitative survey among Polish businesses implementing cooperation strategies; (2) a qualitative field research to gain insight into the relationship between trust and control by looking at specific management practice; (3) a methodological study focused on the creation of research tools of trust and control in interfirm relations.
The project receives funding from National Science Center (grant number 2020/37/B/HS4/02940) and will run from 1.10.2020 till 1.10.2024.
Our Projects: Trust towards financial regulation in Poland
Trust plays a key role in relations on regulated markets. It enables the efficient functioning and development of the financial market.
Trust in the financial market is created in an interaction between three groups of actors: supervisory authority, suppliers of products and services and consumers. In the area of the regulated financial market in Poland, these actors are: The Polish Financial Supervision Authority (the KNF), suppliers of products and services in the area supervised by KNF (e.g., banks) and consumers.
Our research is the only project in Poland to comprehensively diagnose consumer trust in financial supervision. In the study, we rely on a complex, three-dimensional tool for assessing the trustworthiness of the Polish supervision agency; and on that basis evaluating trust. The three dimensions of the trustworthiness that we examined are: competence, benevolence, and integrity.
Link to the study from 2021 (report in Polish)
Link to the study from 2022 (report in Polish)
Link to the study from 2023 (report in Polish)
Grant Partners and Visting Scholars
Center for Trust Research at Kozminski University offers a Visiting Scholar & Graduate Student positions each academic year in order to support advanced research and writing on trust. We welcome graduate students within Koźmiński University Doctoral School (fully funded) https://www.kozminski.edu.pl/doctoral-school/.
To apply for a Visiting Scholar or Visiting Graduate Student position, please email your most current Curriculum Vitae (CV), Research Project Title and Abstract of about 2 pages, and the desired dates of stay to prof. Dominika Latusek-Jurczak (latusek@kozminski.edu.pl).
