This paper examines the role of social networks in enterprise development by comparing personal trust (as inherent in social relationships) to collective and institutional trust (derived from the wider cultural, political and legal environment). The findings indicate that there is a shift from...

In this innovative book, international scholars investigate trust and its role in relation to the entrepreneurial behaviour of small firms across a variety of institutional and cultural settings. The contributors draw on original empirical material from a number of West European and East...

Bei der wirtschaftlichen Transformation von Plan- in Marktwirtschaften gewinnen externe Rahmenbedingungen unternehmerischen Handelns und das mit ihnen verbundene systemische Vertrauen mehr Bedeutung, als sie es zuvor hatten. Ziel des internationalen Projekts "Unternehmerisches Handeln und...