While trust is seen as central to most social relations, most writers, including sociologists of science, assume that modern trust relations--especially those in regulatory relationships - tend towards the impersonal. Drawing on ethnographic material from one kind of scientific oversight body--research ethics committees based in the UK NHS--this paper argues that interpersonal trust is crucial ...

Over more than a decade, IS research has examined the role of trust in the context of technology adoption such as website acceptance (Gefen et al. 2003), successful online interactions (Coppola et al. 2004) and recommendation agents usage (Wang and Benbasat 2005). The primary antecedent of trust in the line of research is often trustee’s trustworthiness. However, Dashiti et al. (2011) articulat...

The interpersonal trust of 296 Brazilian development bankers was related to indicators of cultural modernism, satisfaction with supervisory behaviors, and individual reactions to different organizational climates. Contrary to theories which associate trust with national "culture" or "modernism", the Brazilian bankers scored higher on a four-item trust scale than Peruvian white-collar workers, a...