Moral and Amoral Conceptions of Trust, with an Application in Organizational Ethics

Across the management, social science, and business ethics literatures, and in much of the philosophy literature, trust is characterized as a disposition to act given epistemic states—beliefs and/or expectations about others and about the risks involved. This characterization of trust is best though...

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Authors: Cohen, Marc A. (Author) ; Dienhart, John William (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2013
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2013, Volume: 112, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-13
Further subjects:B Moral relationships
B Organizational Ethics
B Trust
B Transaction cost theory of the firm
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