Purpose: The doctor-patient relationship is a crucial element of healthcare. Literature distinguishes between four models of the doctor-patient relationship: paternalistic, shared decision making, interpretative and informed choice. Socio-economic transformations also alter the nature of this...

This article aims at presenting the way how a suitably long time perspective together with the learning process contributes to generating trust in mutual relation between various entities and how it is possibly to abuse this trust though the application and recognition of characteristics leading...

Many authors have emphasized the importance of trust for achieving organizational success. Trust can provide sense of security what will help survival in complex environments. Nowadays, the degree of ambiguity and uncertainty is said to be increasing, thus increasing the need for change,...

Purpose: Trust is important, because it allows people to form relationships with others and to depend on others—for love, for advice, for help. But trust also involves the risk that people they trust will not pull through for them. The aim of the article is to present empirical research...