that, unlike the partner market, the benefits of trust and trustworthy behavior go to the whole community and are not …

Scholars argue that direct knowledge about distant colleagues is crucial for fostering trust in global collaboration …. However, their arguments focus mainly on how trust accrues from knowledge about distant collaborators' personal … characteristics, relationships, and behavioral norms. We suggest that an equally important trust mechanism is "reflected knowledge …

trust and trade efficiency. Guided by feedback patterns observed on eBay and other platforms, we run laboratory experiments …, leading to more accurate reputation information, more trust, and more efficient trade. We discuss the implications for theory … building and for managing the redesign of market trust systems. <i>This paper was accepted by Teck Ho, decision analysis.</i> …

-scale, word-of-mouth networks. Best known so far as a technology for building trust and fostering cooperation in online …

seeker) was mediated by competence- and benevolence-based trust. Second, once we controlled for these two trustworthiness … provide access to nonredundant information. Third, competence-based trust was especially important for the receipt of tacit …