Trust in a dynamic environment: Fast trust as a threshold condition for asymmetric technology partnership formation in the ICT sector

Trust under Pressure: Empirical Investigations of Trust and Trust Building in Uncertain Circumstances

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 127-147

  Blomqvist, Kirsimarja ^a  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

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EID: 34548816053     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781845427962.00011     Document Type: Chapter

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