concept of personal moral codes and uses the theory to discuss which types of personal moral codes foster trust and distrust … theories of competition, to show the process by which trust-promoting, societal-level moral codes promote productivity and …Scholars agree that societal-level moral codes that promote social trust also promote wealth creation. However, what …

Hunt (2012) builds on his work concerning ethics and resource-advantage theory to link personal ethical standards …

The paper extends Breggren et al. (2008, EE) on "trust and growth: a shaky relationship" by incorporating recent … developments in the trust-growth literature and using a robust methodological underpinning that accounts for the presence of … documented positive trust-growth nexus is broadly confirmed. Second, when initial levels of growth come into play in determining …