Drawing together a wealth of research methods knowledge gained by trust researchers into one essential volume, this book provides an authoritative in-depth consideration of quantitative and qualitative methods for empirical study of trust in the social sciences. This second edition of the...

The Handbook of Research Methods on Trust provides an authoritative in-depth consideration of quantitative and qualitative methods for empirical study of trust in the social sciences. -- As this topic has matured, a growing number of practical approaches and techniques has been utilised across...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore mechanisms of supply chain inclusion in Base of the Pyramid (BOP) settings. It distinguishes micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSME)-led local supply chains on the one hand and multinational enterprises (MNEs)-led global supply chains...

This article addresses the relationship between trust and calculativeness. It summarises the arguments put forward by Oliver Williamson in 1993 (Williamson, O. E. [1993]. Calculativeness, trust, and economic organization. <italic>The Journal of Law and Economics, 36</italic>, 453-486) and the debate that...

The comment acknowledges Hardin's ‘Government without trust’ analysis, but raises conceptual issues that point to normative biases and limitations as well as unresolved issues for further trust research: first, Hardin stays within the perceived trustworthiness paradigm. Second, confidence...

The article encourages trust researchers to explore the empirical field of the arts and creative industries. This is based on the idea that processes of trusting are best studied in high-uncertainty and high-vulnerability contexts and on the notion of trusting as an art in itself, due to the...