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Trust plays a central role in organizational life. It facilitates exchanges among individuals, enhances cooperation and coordination, and contributes to more effective relationships. This volume brings together a cross-disciplinary group of contributors to present some of the latest, most exciting conceptual perspectives in the field and to demonstrate a variety of new methodological approaches to the study of trust. It includes discussions on: the psychological and social antecedents of trust; the effects of social and organizational structures on trust; and the broad effects of trust on organizational functioning.
Collaboration Structure and Information Dilemmas in Biotechnology: Organizational Boundaries as Trust Production
Collaboration Structure and Information Dilemmas in Biotechnology: Organizational Boundaries as Trust Production
Science norms urge sharing of information, science rewards require publication in refereed journals, and science training generally includes student access to new information as active components of ongoing research teams. In most sociology of science, it is assumed that the information being created has value but is treated as a public good: Scientists both contribute to and draw from a common resource pool that consists of discoveries and refinements of those discoveries. In most economic treatments, it is assumed that scientific discoveries have only fleeting value unless formal intellectual property rights mechanisms are used to ...
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