... members' scores. In this article, the authors present and explore how EO-oriented behaviour within a team affect its performance, taking into account the team's trust in a manager and commitment to team and company goals. Design/methodology/approach This article focuses on a quantitative analysis...

.... It establishes that institutional trust has a negative effect on informal business creation and a positive effect on business registration; interpersonal trust drives entrepreneurship in the informal sector but has less impact on business registration; norms of trustworthiness are related to business...

...Karen Williams Middleton; Pamela Nowell The paper illustrates ways in which trust and control influence team dynamics during venture emergence. Trust Control Entrepreneurship New venture teams Exploration of trust and control during venture emergence emphasizes soft-skills...

... the relationship between environmental dynamism and dynamic capabilities of family businesses, and the moderating effect of trust on this relationship. Design/methodology/approach – A quantitative survey was executed with the sampling frame outlined based on the Hemscott Company Guru database. In total, 137...

...Elias Hadjielias; Panikkos Poutziouris Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the conditions underpinning the cooperative relationships between family businesses. The role of trust is also explored, given the focus on informal conditions nested within the cooperation between firms...

...Henry X. Shi; Deborah M. Shepherd; Torsten Schmidts Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical insights to understanding trust as a relational form of social capital, and its effects on entrepreneurial processes, in small- and medium-sized family businesses. Design...

...Sarah Jack; Professor Mary Rose; Fariba Darabi; Murray Clark Purpose To investigate the initiation and development of effective business relationships, including knowledge transfer partnerships, with the primacy of trust as a key factor for collaborative development. Specifically, the aim...

... of contractual relationships, trust, and constrained trust. Finally, the paper questions the impact of strategic alliances on the development of microfirms. Originality/value The research contributes to the knowledge of microfirms' strategic behaviours by showing new results about the functioning...

...Paula Durkan; Mark Durkin; Jenny Gillen The Internet presents many possibilities by which small firms can better identify and exploit marketing opportunities. A prerequisite to successful on‐line firm‐customer interactions is the existence of a trusting bond between the network players...

... law is inadequate for underpinning transactions with any sense of reliability. Lack of system trust (Wong, 1991, p.15) has pushed Chinese entrepreneurs to make use of their family model (Redding, 1991, pp. 36‐7). As will be argued below, by minimising transaction costs, Chinese family firms have...

...Mohammed Boussouara; David Deakins This paper examines the role of trust in the process of learning and acquisition of knowledge by high technology entrepreneurs in their relationship with external directors. It examines the literature on organisational learning which showed the importance...