A considerable amount of research has examined trust since our 1995 publication. We revisit some of the critical issues that we addressed and provide clarifications and extensions of the topics of levels of analysis, time, control systems, reciprocity, and measurement. We also recognize recent research in new areas of trust, such as affect, emotion, violation and repair, distrust, international...

This paper describes an empirical study to capture the influence of owner-manager general trust (GT) on organizational structure and performance in SMEs. Hypotheses are tested with data from a sample of 103 Irish manufacturing SMEs. The results indicate that owner-manager GT has a positive influence on performance in hightech SMEs but a negative effect in low-tech SMEs. The hypotheses on the re...

Positivist accounts of the KM literature neglect the diverse and socially created nature of knowledge and organizational relations. However, more critical accounts stress a less epidermal approach to the interpretation of KM phenomena and emphasize the contextual and situated nature of KM phenomena. The paper builds on this critique and proposes an alternative approach to trust that allows for ...

doubtlessly, the two categories of social capital and organizational learning have significance importance in today’s societies.the subject of this research involves the evaluation of the effects of social capital on organizational learning in guilan department of youth and sport learning in this research. this research is an applied one and its statistical society includes the headquarters’ ma...

Background: Moral intelligence is one of the dimensions of intelligence that can provide a framework for proper human functioning. The purpose of this study is to investigate the position of moral intelligence in the management of organizational trust of credit institutions. Method: The research is developmental-applied in terms of purpose and mixed (qualitative-quantitative) in terms of metho...

Internet-mediated virtual teamworking is increasingly becoming an integral part of the work life for many people in information societies. This paper reports an investigation on the development of trust relationships in virtual teamworking. The main objectives of this study are to identify forms of trust relationships in virtual teamworking and to understand how such trust relationships operate...

Awareness of employees’ attitudes has always been used as one of the important management tools in organizations. Because, employees’ attitudes can affect their behavior in the workplace. Therefore, it's important to understand what factors can affect it. In this regard, due to the increasing level of employees' maturity in many organizations and becoming knowledge-based, two factors of organiz...

trust is an important element in human relations and cooperation between members of the organization. trust can be the interpersonal or inter-group, in special mode; or be generalized and related to the whole organization in general mode. special-generalized trust as a complex interactive process is influenced by various personal and social factors and variables. some of the most important fact...

Purpose – The aim of this paper was to investigate the role of perceived organizational support (POS) for employee risk-taking through its association with greater trust among supervisors and subordinates that the organization will take into account the individual’s intent to be helpful in the case of failure (failure-related trust). Design/methodology/approach – Data were obtained from 346 emp...