In this paper we set out to introduce new elements when calculating the level of trust given a member virtual organization. Compared previous works, have introduced elements: initial whose value results from sociological and psychological considerations reassessment by introducing feedback in calculation formulas. The values thus calculated will be on which trust-based security policies organiz...

ethics is an essential requirement for a sound and healthy society. it is due to its positive individual, organizational, and social consequences that ethics has always provoked scholars, instructors, and organization managers to try to maintain and improve it. the adaptation of managerial solutions will gradually result in the improvement of trust, commitment, and effort which are all necessar...

Firms exhibit heterogeneity in size, productivity, and internal structure, and this is true even within the same industry. Our paper provides evidence of a link between an organization’s culture—specifically the trust environment—and its level of specialization. We show experimentally that exogenously imposed culture endogenously leads to variation in organizational form. We prime trust and dem...

Knowledge-based organizations base their competitiveness on knowledge and specific knowledge-related capabilities. The nature of knowledge is an important determinant enhancing understanding of firm behaviour and related organizing. In knowledge-based view of the firm trust is implicit. In this paper the role and nature of trust in knowledge-based organization is explored. Knowledge-based view ...

This chapter presents results from the qualitative field study conducted in a Silicon Valley-based American-Polish start-up joint venture. It investigates the issues of collaboration within one firm that is made up of individuals from two countries that differ dramatically in generalized trust: Poland and the United States. The authors explore differences between thick, knowledge-based forms of...

We propose an alternative market design to the current credit ratings industrial organization. An issuer delegates a pass-through non-monitoring trust to acquire ratings from credit ratings agencies (CRAs). The trust pays outcome contingent fees, such that truth-telling is incentive compatible for CRAs, eliminating ratings inflation. Moreover, because the trust acts as an intermediary, it elimi...