All you need is trust? A critical review of the trust and entrepreneurship literature

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 193-212

  Welter, Friederike ^a  

^a JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Context; Entrepreneurship; Trust; Trust duality; Trust process

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859294143     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: 17412870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242612439588     Document Type: Review

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