TY  - BOOK
AU  - Porta,Rafael La
AU  - Lopez-de-Silane,Florencio
AU  - Shleifer,Andrei
AU  - Vishny,Robert W.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Trust in Large Organizations
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - December 1996; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w5864
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w5864
ER  -