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...
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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...
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
"The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" is the entry-level subject in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is required of all studen...
Self-Assembled Metal Colloid Monolayers: An Approach to SERS Substrates
The self-assembly of monodisperse gold and silver colloid particles into monolayers on polymer-coated substrates yields macroscopic surfaces that are highly active for surface-e...
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...
Demographic and Epidemiologic Drivers of Global Cardiovascular Mortality
The aging and growth of the population resulted in an increase in global cardiovascular deaths between 1990 and 2013, despite a decrease in age-specific death rates in most regi...
Rationale and Standards for the Systematic Review of Qualitative Literature in Health Services Research
Despite growing recognition of the need for qualitative methods in health services research, there have been few attempts to define quality standards for assessing the results. ...