Ana Cristina Costa
Senior Lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Studies
Contact Details
Brunel University
Uxbridge
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Summary
Ana Cristina Costa (PhD) holds an MSc degree in Social and Organizational Psychology from the ISPA Institute, University of Lisbon in Portugal, and a PhD in Trust in Organizations from Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She is Senior Lecturer Human Resource Management - Organizational Behaviour and has CIPD Academic membership. She has taught a variety of classes including Organizational Behaviour, HRM, Knowledge Management, Research Methods, Teamwork and Conflict Management on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate including MBA and PhD courses.
Her research interests include Trust in Organizations, HRM, Social Capital and Teamwork, and Innovation and Knowledge Management in Organizations. Ana Cristina is co-founder of the Innovation Collaborative Research Network (www.icrn.org.uk) funded by The Leverhulme Trust which investigates creativity and innovation at work and their effects on job performance, HRM, and employee well-being across Europe in collaboration with Maastricht University (The Netherlands) and University of Valencia (Spain). She is currently visiting Associate Professor at the Research Institute of Personnel Psychology at University of Valencia in Spain.
Ana Cristina is a member of several editorial boards and has been guest editor of special issues for Journals such as Group and Organization Management, International Sociology and Social Science Information. She currently serves as Associate Editor for the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology.
Teaching and Research
Teaching
Leading People and Managing Organizations (MBA)
Conflict Management Skills (MBA)
Research Interests
- Trust within and between Organizations
- Teamwork, Performance and Innovation
- Knowledge Transfer
- Social Capital
Research Centres
Publications
Publications
Journal Papers
(2012) Anderson, N., Costa, AC. and Salgado, JF., Sustainability and Industrial, Work, and Organizational Psychology: Globalization, Contribution, and Psychological Sustainability, Industrial and Organizational Psychology 5 (4) : 487- 490
(2012) Anderson, N., Costa, AC. and Salgado, J., Sustainability and IWO Psychology:Globalization, Contribution and Psychological Sustainability., Industrial and Organizational Psychology: perspectives on science and practice
(2012) Anderson, N., Ahmed, S. and Costa, AC., Applicant reactions in Saudi Arabia: Organizational attractiveness and core self-evaluations, International Journal of Selection and Assessment 20 (2) : 197- 208
(2012) Singh, S., Darwish, T., Costa, AC. and Anderson, N., Measuring HRM and organisational performance: Concepts, issues, and framework, Management Decision 50 (4) : 651- 667
(2011) Costa, AC. and Anderson, N., Measuring trust in teams: Development and validation of a multifaceted measure of formative and reflective indicators of team trust, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology 20 (1) : 119- 154
(2009) Costa, AC., Bijlsma-Frankema, K. and De Jong, B., The role of social capital on trust development and dynamics: Implications for cooperation, monitoring and team performance, Social Science Information 48 (2) : 199- 228
(2009) Costa, AC. and Peiró, JM., Trust and social capital in teams and organizations – antecedents, dynamics, benefits and limitations: An introduction, Social Science Information 48 (2) : 131- 141
(2007) Costa, AC. and Bijlsma-Frankema, K., Trust and control interrelations: New perspectives on the trust—control nexus, Group and Organization Management 32 (4) : 392- 406 Download publication
(2007) Costa, AC. and Bijlsma-Frankema, K., New perspectives on the trust-control nexus in organization relations. SI (ed.), Group and Organization Management 32 (4)
(2005) Bijlsma-Frankema, K. and Costa, AC., Understanding the trust-control nexus, International Sociology 20 (3) : 259- 282
(2004) Costa, AC., Developing and maintaining trust upon different basis: Implications for cooperation monitoring and performance of temporary project teams, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY 39 (5-6) : 42- 42
(2004) Costa, AC., Trust, Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology 611- 620
(2003) Costa, AC., Measuring trust in teams: Development and validation of the trust team inventory, AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY 55 120- 120 Download publication
(2003) Costa, AC., Work team trust and effectiveness, Personnel Review 32 (5) : 605- 622
(2001) Costa, AC., Roe, RA. and Taillieu, T., Trust within teams: The relation with performance effectiveness, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology 10 (3) : 225- 244
Book Chapters
(2012) Costa, AC. and Anderson, N., Trust and Social Capital in Organizations: Key Issues and Advances. In: Costa, AC. and Anderson, N. eds. Major Works: Trust and Social capital in Organizations. London : Sage (1)
(2010) Anderson, N. and Costa, AC., Innovation and Knowledge Management: The Constant Idyll of Change. In: Anderson, N. and Costa, AC. eds. Innovation and Knowledge Management. Sage Publications Ltd xxi- xli
(2010) Bijlsma-Frankema, K. and Costa, AC., Consequences and antecedents of managerial and employee legitimacy interpretations of control: a natural open system approach. In: Sitkin, SB., Cardinal, LB. and Bijlsma-Frankema, K. eds. Control in Organizations: New Directions in Theory and Research. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press 396- 433
(2009) Costa, AC., Diversity, trust climate and social capital in teams. In: Zijlstra, F., Iterson, A. and ten Horn, L. eds. Time Changes Work. Maastricht : Datawyse/Universitaire Pers Maastricht 52- 74
(2008) Daskapan, S. and Costa, AC., Reengineering trust in global information systems. In: Kautonen, T. and Karjaluoto, H. eds. Trust and new technologies: Marketing and management on the Internet and mobile media. Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc 244- 266
Books
(2012) Costa, AC. and Anderson, N., Major Works: Trust and Social Capital in Organizations. Sage
(2010) Anderson, N. and Costa, AC., Major works: Innovation and Knowledge Management. Sage Publications Ltd
