Christel Lane and Reinhard Bachmann (eds), Trust within and Between Organizations, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998, £45.00, xiii+334 pp.

Patrick Maclagan, Management and Morality. A Developmental Perspective, London: Sage, £45.00, paper £14.99, vii+212 pp.

Trust seems a useful test-case for business morality. According to Fukuyama it is the opposite of contractual relations, as it is ‘based on commonly shared norms . . . about deep “value” questions like the nature of God or justice, but it may also encompass secular norms, like professional standards and codes of behaviour.’ (Fukuyama 1995: 26).