Trust portfolio toward an integrative framework: the emerging themes of trust context and trust complexity

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Before I introduce the articles published in the second issue of JTR in 2016, I would like to take the opportunity to share a couple of noteworthy news items with you. First, the number of submissions in the first half of this year (up to the end of June) has substantially increased, already higher than the number for the whole of 2015. This may be related to the inclusion of JTR in the journal list in the Academic Journal Guide 2015 from the Association of Business Schools (ABS) in UK, thus the higher recognition of JTR due to the greater exposure of the ABS listing. I hope this momentum will continue in the rest of this year and also in years to come. Second, it is my great pleasure to congratulate Neve Isaeva from the University of Birmingham for winning the privileged award, theMichael K. O’Rourke Best Publication Award, which is to recognise the outstanding achievement in the publication of a postgraduate researcher. Neve received the 2016 award for the best publication in the College of Social Sciences, and this article was published in JTR as a special-forum article (Isaeva, Bachmann, Bristow, & Saunders, 2015). Only five winners are selected each year for this award, one for each of the five colleges at the University of Birmingham with approximately 5000 postgraduate research students. I strongly recommend this award-winning article to all JTR readers, and in fact would like to share with you again my view on this article as published in the second issue of JTR in 2015 (Li, 2015a):