Restoring Trust in an Organization
after a Business School Rankings Scandal
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Publication date: 2022-03-21
Polish Sociological Review 2022;217(1):93-114
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ABSTRACT
This paper investigates how an organization tries to restore trust after an organizational-level scandal
by examining the trust repair process. The study adopts a qualitative research approach to analyze the case of
the scandal at Temple University’s Fox School of Business concerning the submission of false data to the ranking
body. This paper shows the importance of trust between education institutions and the society and how it is difficult
to rebuild it after violation. While dealing with trust rebuilding at the organizational level, we should consider not
only the prior reputation of the organization, but also appropriate timing of trust repair mechanisms and number
of actors involved in the trust failure situation. This paper also presents the trust rebuilding actions in a novel
institutional setting, that is, in case of the business school.
FUNDING
The paper was supported by Kozminski University grants.