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 …

Control and trust are recurring themes in the analysis of the management of International Joint Ventures (IJVs). Both …, studies that have empirically tested the existence and nature of the mechanisms that are assumed to link control and trust to … taking place between the JV partners. Analysing the interaction processes in the context of control, trust and performance is …

-based incentive systems will induce a similar crowding outeffect of trust. Thus, the objective of our paper is to conceptually prove …,which considers trust as a relevant alternative for designing efficientcorporate governance systems... …