Trust in Large Organizations /
Porta, Rafael La.
Trust in Large Organizations / Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silane, Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1996. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w5864 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w5864. .
December 1996.
Several authors suggest that trust is an important determinant of cooperation between strangers in a society, and therefore of performance of social institutions. We argue that trust should be particularly important for the performance of large organizations. In a cross-section of countries, evidence on government performance, participation in civic and professional societies, importance of large firms, and the performance of social institutions more generally supports this hypothesis. Moreover, trust is lower in countries with dominant hierarchical religions, which may have deterred networks of cooperation trust hold up remarkably well on a cross-section of countries.
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Trust in Large Organizations / Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silane, Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1996. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w5864 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w5864. .
December 1996.
Several authors suggest that trust is an important determinant of cooperation between strangers in a society, and therefore of performance of social institutions. We argue that trust should be particularly important for the performance of large organizations. In a cross-section of countries, evidence on government performance, participation in civic and professional societies, importance of large firms, and the performance of social institutions more generally supports this hypothesis. Moreover, trust is lower in countries with dominant hierarchical religions, which may have deterred networks of cooperation trust hold up remarkably well on a cross-section of countries.
System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.