Leveraging the Ties of Others to Build a Reputation for Trustworthiness Among Peers

By Sze-Sze Wong, W. Boh. 2010

123 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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In Sociology and Political Science

1. Gokhan Ertug
2. Charles Galunic
3. Martin Gargiulo
4. Michele J. Gelfand

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

1. Gokhan Ertug

Citations in the corpus

• At What Level (and in Whom) We Trust (2012, background): “Wong and Boh (2010) found that the trustee’s network density, heterogeneity, and nonoverlapping contacts have positive effects on interpersonal trust, presumably because embeddedness lowers the likelihood that the trustee would “shortchange” the trustor and nonoverlapping contacts provide new and…”
• The Positive Externalities of Social Capital: Benefiting from Senior Brokers (2012, background): “The finding that second-order social capital matters when it is associated with specific roles in an actor’s network is consistent with recent work by Wong and Boh (2010) and by Sparrowe and Liden (2005).”