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 …

social-cognitive theory of the firm and an analysis of processes by which trust is built up and broken down. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

, in the form of generalized trust and associational activity, is related to regional differences in economic growth. Based … on extensive robustness tests, we present evidence that Fukuyama's (1995) argument on trust does not hold and that Putnam …

We examine the effect of trust on financial investment and contracting decisions in a micro-economic environment where … trust is exogenous. Using hand-collected data on European venture capital, we show that the Eurobarometer measure of trust … partners further contributes to the effect of trust. Education and work experience reduce the effect of trust but do not …