Trust in business is an essential factor that has been being studied by the Academy for decades. From the seminal proposal of Mayer et al. (1995) about the concept of trust and how it is developed inside organizations we propose a revision of the model described by the contributions of Spaemann,...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to propose a wider and more humanistic understanding of the phenomenon of trust and “trust building” through a dialogue between ethics and social sciences. Design/methodology/approach – This paper offers a constructive critical review of the explanation...

Purpose: Achieving employee participation in continuous improvement (CI) systems is considered as one of the success factors for the sustainability of those systems. Yet, it is also very difficult to obtain because of the interaction of many critical factors that affect employee participation....