Special Issue: Trust in an Organizational Context: Trust as an Organizing Principle

By Bill McEvily, Vincenzo Perrone, Akbar Zaheer. Organ. Sci., 2003

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Do country-level institutional frameworks and interfirm governance arrangements substitute or complement in international business relationships? (2012, background): “informal institutions with relational governance is consistent with the notion of relationalism as an organizing principle economizing on cognitive resources (McEvily et al., 2003; Uzzi, 1997).”
Co-opetition, distributor's entrepreneurial orientation and manufacturer's knowledge acquisition: Evidence from China (2011, background): “One approach to advancing knowledge acquisition, from organizational learning theory, focuses on the properties of dyadic relationships between social organizations, such as cooperation and conflict (Song et al., 2005; McEvily et al., 2003).”
When Does Trust Matter to Alliance Performance (2006, background): “The existence of trust between alliance partners cannot be taken for granted, however; partners may not only have to cultivate trust intentionally (Parkhe, 1998; Sako, 1991), but may also incur substantial real and opportunity costs in its pursuit (McEvily et al., 2003; Poppo & Zenger, 2002).”
Coercive strategy in interfirm cooperation: Mediating roles of interpersonal and interorganizational trust (2006, background): “McEvily et al. (2003) point out that an organizing principle provides the logic to which actors refer when they formulate their behavior and routines in a specific exchange system.”
Measures for Dealing with Competence and Integrity Violations of Interorganizational Trust at the Corporate and Operating Levels of Organizational Hierarchy (2009, positive): “346) and other scholars who posit that trust and control systems should be considered to be alternative mechanisms ‘for dealing with risk in relationships’ (McEvilly et al., 2003; Schoorman et al., 2007, p. 346; Sitkin and George, 2005).”