. Those impacts are argued to be seriously harmful to society. Trust is crucial to public acceptance of intrusive measures … trust, firstly in the assertions of national security and law enforcement agencies, and secondly in the politicians who have …

indicates that given lower levels of opportunism, bilateral idiosyncratic investments and interpersonal trust enhance … opportunism, goal congruence becomes a more powerful safeguard, while interpersonal trust becomes less effective. Bilateral …

While most trust scales have their original versions in English, few attempts have been made to study the reliability … and validity of their translated versions. Among the trust scales available in the literature, McAllister's cognition- and … affect-based trust scale is a self-rating scale, developed to test the trust relationship between managers and professionals …

reputation-building mechanisms and complex contracts. We argue that the underlying reason for cooperation is trust and … either absolutely trust each other and cooperate when sharing forecast information, or do not trust each other at all … determine (i) when trust is important in forecast information sharing, (ii) how trust is affected by changes in the supply chain …

facilities, employees, and equipment, and employees' responsiveness and empathy are unobservable. In contrast, trust may play a … central role here in enhancing customer satisfaction. We model trust as an endogenously formed entity that ultimately impacts … customer satisfaction, and we elucidate the linkages between trust and other factors related to the performance of the online …

We invited “residents” of a virtual world who vary in real-world age and occupation to play a trust game with stakes … suggestive text was added to the instructions, or both a photo and text were added. We find high levels of trust and reciprocity … photographic and textual cues influenced the level of trust but not that of trustworthiness. …

This paper analyzes the determinants of social capital, as generalized trust, from a microeconomic perspective. We … accumulation of generalized trust, while data are consistent with institutional quality being a consequence and not a cause of … trust. …

Several recent studies show that immigrants exhibit higher levels of trust in public institutions than natives. This … standing matters less for the level of trust of immigrants than it does for natives. The ‘frame of reference effect’ weakens … part of immigrants’ higher trust levels and of the dual frames of reference effect are mediated by the more conservative …