The social context of well–being
Large samples of data from the World Values Survey, the US Benchmark Survey and a comparable Canadian survey are used to estimate equations designed to explore the social contex...
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Replication of Genome-Wide Association Signals in UK Samples Reveals Risk Loci for Type 2 Diabetes
The molecular mechanisms involved in the development of type 2 diabetes are poorly understood. Starting from genome-wide genotype data for 1924 diabetic cases and 2938 populatio...
Trust and suspicion
Whenever philosophers, poets, statesmen, or theologians have written about man's relationship to his fellow man, to nature, or to animals, the phenomena of and faith and resp...
The Social Control of Impersonal Trust
How do societies control trust relationships that are not embedded in structures of personal relations? This paper discusses the guardians of impersonal trust and discovers that...
Is Social Capital Declining in the United States? A Multiple Indicator Assessment
Despite a great deal of interest in a possible decline of social capital in the United States, scholars have not reached a consensus on the trend. This article improves upon pre...
Explaining the Limited Effectiveness of Legalistic “Remedies” for Trust/Distrust
Organizations frequently adopt formal rules, contracts, or other legalistic mechanisms when interpersonal trust is lacking. But recent research has shown such legalistic “remedi...
Toward Understanding and Measuring Conditions of Trust: Evolution of a Conditions of Trust Inventory
Ten conditions of trust were suggested by 84 interviews of managers, and two previous studies of managerial trust. Statements made in the interviews and the studies were used to...
Organizational Responses to Crisis: The Centrality of Trust
Within this division, there is a real problem with the lower level people not trusting the people at the top, because the people feel that the management doesn't tell them the t...
Integrating Variable Risk Preferences, Trust, and Transaction Cost Economics
Transaction cost economics (TCE) relies on three behavioral assumptions in predicting how firms choose governance structures—bounded rationality, opportunism, and risk neutralit...
Grounded theory, ethnography and phenomenology
Purpose The paper aims to look at some of the problems commonly associated with qualitative methodologies, suggesting that there is a need for a more rigorous application in ord...