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Towards an Interdisciplinary Conceptualization of Trust: A Typological Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2015

Peter Ping Li
Peter Ping Li*
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California State University, USA
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Abstract

Adopting a diversity-in-unity perspective that identifies all shared dimensions and typical delineations, both as structure-similar yet content-diverse configurations, this paper proposes an interdisciplinary conceptualization of trust with primary trust ideal-types. This conceptualization contains three components: (i) a typology of four trust dimensions related to trust conditions and trust functions; (ii) a typology of four trust delineations derived from the four trust dimensions; and (iii) a typology of four trust ideal-types built upon the first two typologies. These typologies jointly serve as a salient platform to unify the fragmented trust literature.

Keywords

diversity-in-unitydualitytrust-as-attitudetrust-as-choicetypology of trust多元统一矛盾体态度信任行为信任分类法。
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Management and Organization Review , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , November 2007 , pp. 421 - 445
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Copyright © International Association for Chinese Management Research 2007

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