Bei der wirtschaftlichen Transformation von Plan- in Marktwirtschaften gewinnen externe Rahmenbedingungen unternehmerischen Handelns und das mit ihnen verbundene systemische Vertrauen mehr Bedeutung, als sie es zuvor hatten. Ziel des internationalen Projekts "Unternehmerisches Handeln und...

This research asks how a strong personal relationship (strong tie) between a small business ownermanager and their professional or informal advisor affects the relationship between the advisor's recent performance and the owner-manager's perceptions of the advisor's trustworthiness in terms of...

Purpose: A conceptual model is developed to examine the influence of four antecedent factors (personal trust, institutional trust, perceived control and experience) on consumers' willingness to participate in permission-based mobile marketing. We empirically test our model across three European...

Human resource flexibility is important in entrepreneurial ventures that need to respond to the changing challenges of growing the new business. This research investigates the impact of previously well-known people (strong ties) as entrepreneurial team members on the human resource flexibility...

This paper investigates the factors that affect the availability and robustness of trust as a governance mechanism in inter-firm relations. By adopting a broad ‘embedded' perspective, the analysis focuses both on the factors that affect trust within the inter-firm relation (endogenous...