Trust in the balance: How managers integrate trust-building and task control

Handbook of Trust Research

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 87-106

  Long, Chris P ^a   Sitkin, Sim B ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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