An experiment on the effects of embeddedness in trust situations: Buying a used car

Rationality and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 227-253

  Buskens, Vincent ^a   Weesie, Jeroen ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Embeddedness; Social networks; Trust; Vignette experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044519134     PISSN: 10434631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/104346300012002004     Document Type: Article

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