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This chapter reviews some key points in the analysis of trust, based on Nooteboom (2002)i.The following questions are … addressed.What can we have trust in?What is the relation between trust and control?What are the sources of trust? And what are … its limits?By what process is trust built up and broken down?What are the psychological mechanisms involved?The chapter …
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that direction, it summarizes and discusses an agentbased model of the build-up and adaptation of trust between multiple … producers and suppliers.The central question is whether, and under what conditions, trust and loyalty are viable in markets ….While the model incorporates some well known behavioural phenomena from the trust literature, more extended modeling of human …
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This paper analyzes the relations between social capital, institutions and trust.These concepts are full of ambiguity … and confusion.This paper attempts to dissolve some of the confusion, by distinguishing trust and control, and analyzing … institutional and relational conditions of trust.It presents a tool for the analysis of the foundations of trust and a diagnosis of …
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In many contexts, players interact only with a subset of the whole population, i.e., players interact on a network. This paper a setting in which players are located on a network and play a fixed game with their neighbors. Players have incomplete information on the network structure. They have a...
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social-cognitive theory of the firm and an analysis of processes by which trust is built up and broken down. …
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Trust is full of puzzle and paradox.Trust is both rational and emotional. Trust can go beyond calculative self …-interest, but has its limits.People may want to trust, while they may also feel threatened by it.If trust is not in place prior to a … better understanding of the puzzles and processes of trust, this chapter applies the perspective of 'embodied cognition', and …
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dictator game, the ultimatum game and the trust game. All subjects in a session earn the same participation fee, but their … split of the waiting time. In the trust game, there is substantial trust and reciprocity. Overall, social preferences are … evident in time allocation decisions. Received laboratory results from dictator, ultimatum, and trust games are robust to the …
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In different treatments of an intergenerational common resource experiment, monetary payoff maximization by each generation causes either negative or positive externalities for future generations.Two behavioral types have been observed previously in single generation games: equity motivated...
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Abstract: This paper studies the strategies employed by Catholic and Protestant nonprofit hospitals in Germany and traces them back to the theological foundations of those religions, which shape managers' values. We find that Catholic nonprofit hospitals follow a strategy of horizontal...
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We develop an evolutionary approach to explain altruistic preferences. Given their preferences, individuals interact rationally with each other. By comparing the success of players with different preferences, we investigate whether evolution favors altruistic or selfish attitudes. The outcome...
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