Foundations of organizational trust: What matters to different stakeholders?

Organization Science

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1087-1104

  Pirson, Michael ^a   Malhotra, Deepak ^b  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Benevolence; Competence; Identification; Integrity; Organizational trust; Stakeholders; Transparency; Trust; Trustworthiness

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960862762     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1100.0581     Document Type: Article

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