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Facets of Trust in Relationships – A Literature Synthesis of Highly Ranked Trust Articles

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This article offers a literature synthesis of 800 highly ranked trust articles published between 1966 and 2006. The literature synthesis is a tool for the development of a general trust model.

The empirical findings support eight main clusters gained from forty identified key variables and three trust interaction types: trust between persons, trust between organizations, and trust between a person and an organization.

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Ebert, T. Facets of Trust in Relationships – A Literature Synthesis of Highly Ranked Trust Articles. J Bus Market Manage 3, 65–84 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12087-008-0034-9

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