This study uses theories on trust and opportunism to investigate the economic behaviour and business practices of …

, including alliances, joint ventures, and networks. Trust is one of the most important factors of success for any business … the problems of trust in alliance networks. The conclusion of the text is that trust building in alliance networks has an …

When can you cheat some people without damaging your reputation among others? In a trust game between a firm and a … correspondingly smaller. If the majority is sufficiently large it gains nothing from a solidarity strategy of punishing opportunism …

, including alliances, joint ventures, and networks. Trust is one of the most important factors of success for any business … the problems of trust in alliance networks. The conclusion of the text is that trust building in alliance networks has an …

, the potential opportunism of the co-contactors obviously has a disastrous impact: how can one engage in a continuing … counter-productive for relationships between inter-organisational networks members. Only long-term involvement and total trust …” opportunism could at last have an unsuspected positive impact on the functioning of inter-organisational networks. The point of …

impairments can be used as a mean of signalling trust to absent owners and that the institutional element of tradition cannot be … tested separately from the agency element of opportunism. …