Trust in Japanese Interfirm Relations: Institutional Sanctions Matter

Truth, trust, and sanctions: On institutional selection in sender-receiver games

We conduct a laboratory experiment to investigate the impact of institutions and institutional choice on truth-telling and trust in sender-receiver games. We find that in an institution with sanctioning opportunities, receivers sanction predominantly after having trusted lies. Individuals who sanction are responsible for truth-telling beyond standard equilibrium predictions and are more likely ...

Should Institutional Trust Matter in Information Systems Research?

Overview 5 6 Given the importance of trust in online environments, information systems research has recently embraced trust research (e.g., 7 Ba and Pavlou 2002; Gefen et al. 2003, Jarvenpaa et al. 1999; McKnight et al. 2002; Stewart 2003). However, despite the 8 enormous interest in the topic of trust by IS researchers (with 129 published papers listed in ABI/INFORM), most of this research 9 s...

Development of Trust: A Study of Interfirm Relationships in Vietnam

The radical political and economic reforms sweeping through former socialist countries during the last decade have opened rich opportunities for privately owned businesses to emerge and develop. Since the market institutions and infrastructures in these countries are largely underdeveloped, private firms in transition economies rely extensively on interfirm partnerships. This raises the questio...

Trust in Interfirm Alliances: the Case Techmed-nippontech

Social sanctions or social relations? Microfinance in Mexico ¬リニ

a r t i c l e i n f o Microfinance is a vital source of funding for micro-entrepreneurs in emerging markets and underdeveloped nations. The emphasis in the literature on social sanctions as a mechanism for ensuring high repayment rates may be misplaced. We propose that the construct of harmonious social relations needs to be added in order to explain repayment rates and that high repayment rate...