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Dear colleagues, We are negotiating with a major publishing house to publish a book titled "(Dis)honesty in Management: Manifestations and Consequences" in 2013. This volume aims to concentrate on different forms of honesty and dishonesty in management and their consequences for managers, firms and society. These issues are related to values and behavior patterns and thus, the basis of contemporary business. Honesty can be defined as the refusal to pretend that facts of reality are other than what they are while dishonesty ©¤ including lying, stealing, cheating, distortion, concealing of important information, failing to fulfill promises, and abruptly abandoning a business relationship ©¤ presents its opposite. Our preliminary results show that the understanding of (dis)honesty and (un)ethical behavior differs in different cultural, societal and organizational contexts. The fear of dishonesty may change a firm¡¯s local and international behavior, but also managers¡¯ attitude toward employees. Some firms avoid deeper relationship-oriented partnerships as they wish to control internal activities, avoid possible disinformation and prevent dishonesty/opportunism costs. As a result of distrust, they may also protect their firm-specific knowledge more, and this may result in a lower level of knowledge acquisition and reduce partnership satisfaction. Moreover, distrust may lead to more complex and costly contract negotiations and governance structures; complicate further business and lead to relationship termination or governance redesign. Still, sometimes dishonesty may pay off in the short term. If you are interested in these topics and would like to contribute to our book, please send us the title of your chapter, a short abstract (preferably up to 200 words) and full contact information (including your job title, phone and fax numbers, postal and e-mail address) by 5th of October. If your abstract is accepted, we expect full papers by 1st of March, 2012. Professor Maaja Vadi [log in to unmask] Senior Researcher Tiia Vissak [log in to unmask] ____ AIB-L is brought to you by the Academy of International Business. For information: http://aib.msu.edu/community/aib-l.asp To post message: [log in to unmask] For assistance: [log in to unmask] AIB-L is a moderated list.