Rethinking trust within emergency collaboration: The significance of negative affects

Author:

Sage Daniel1ORCID,Jörden Nina2,Zebrowski Chris3

Affiliation:

1. Work and Organisation, Loughborough Business School Loughborough University Loughborough UK

2. Department of Politics and International Studies Cambridge University Cambridge UK

3. International Relations, Politics and History School of Social Sciences and Humanities Loughborough University Loughborough UK

Abstract

AbstractStrong emergency collaboration is commonly assumed to involve a joyful passage to trust and confidence. Organizations are said to collaborate when fear and suspicion are overcome. Thus, negative, or sad, affects—such as anger, fear, disdain, despair, frustration—appear opposed to emergency collaboration. In this hybrid theoretical‐empirical paper we challenge these assumptions by elaborating the affect theories of the philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Baruch Spinoza with ethnographic research on emergency collaboration undertaken before and during the UK emergency response to COVID‐19. Moving beyond considerations of sad affects as either undermining collaboration, or as moderators of excessive trust, we explore how a range of sad affects are both prevalent and potentially beneficial within trustful emergency collaboration. Rather than celebrate such affects, our analysis contributes by drawing attention to the overlooked role of vacillations of affect between joy and sadness within emergency collaboration. In so doing our findings decentre but do not disregard the role of trustful confidence within theories and practitioner prescriptions of emergency collaboration.

Funder

Economic and Social Research Council

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Management Information Systems

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