Facing an increasing competition, service providers are forced to develop trust and commitment in order to stabilize … and extend their market position. Based upon a theoretical framework, the paper discusses strategies to provide trust … and, therefore, draws hypotheses how consulting companies are enabled to create and enhance trust using communication …

In this article a simple game is used to develop a concept of trust that takes account of boundedly rational behavior … there remains a risk that the second mover does not perform as promised. Trust consists of accepting this risk. The paper … also discusses the efficiency of trust and the role of the law in separating trustworthy from non trustworthy people. …

Existing evidence on the relationship between ethnic heterogeneity, social capital (trust, voluntarism, associational … Diversity, Social Trust, and Civic Engagement, financed by the German Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women …

This paper reports a negative relationship between the size of the shadow economy and generalized trust, in a sample of … endogeneity. It is independent from trust in institutions and from income inequality, and is mainly present in the sample of … developing countries. Those findings suggest that the tax compliance effect of trust dominates its role as a substitute for the …

be differentiated. The essential conditions for ethically grounded entrepreneurial decisions are primarily trust … of ethics of responsibility. Trust and responsibility are two fundamental values, “which are inextricable from … entrepreneurial decision making in an ethically grounded economy” (Schweitzer, M., 2011(I), p. 77). Trust and responsibility are …

individual and county-level data, we document large causal effects on trust and ethnic identity of an exogenous outburst of … decreases generalized trust and increases ethnic identity. The effects are quantitatively large and robust to a number of …

Many students of trust see it as a way to mitigate risk through the development of strong institutions that create … trust. I offer an alternative view of trust, moralistic or generalized trust, that depends upon a psychological foundation … of optimism and control. This form of trust, in contrast to arguments by Paldam and others, has “value” independent of …