How accounts shape lending decisions through fostering perceived trustworthiness

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69-84

  Sonenshein, Scott ^a   Herzenstein, Michal ^b   Dholakia, Utpal M ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounts; Auctions; Decision making under uncertainty; Lending; Peer to peer; Trustworthiness

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952739946     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2010.11.009     Document Type: Article

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