How managers can build trust in strategic alliances: a meta-analysis on the central trust-building mechanisms
| Autor: | Martina Lütkewitte, Matthias Meier, Thomas Mellewigt, Carolin Decker |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Knowledge management business.industry Process (engineering) 05 social sciences Asset specificity Alliance Empirical research Human resource management Meta-analysis 0502 economics and business 050211 marketing Trust building Business and International Management business Strategic alliance 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Business Economics. 86:229-257 |
| ISSN: | 1861-8928 0044-2372 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11573-015-0777-1 |
| Popis: | Trust is an important driver of superior alliance performance. Alliance managers are influential in this regard because trust requires active involvement, commitment and the dedicated support of the key actors involved in the strategic alliance. Despite the importance of trust for explaining alliance performance, little effort has been made to systematically investigate the mechanisms that managers can use to purposefully create trust in strategic alliances. We use Parkhe’s (J World Bus 33:417–437, 1998b) theoretical framework to derive nine hypotheses that distinguish between process-based, characteristic-based and institutional-based trust-building mechanisms. Our meta-analysis of 64 empirical studies shows that trust is strongly related to alliance performance. Process-based mechanisms are more important for building trust than characteristic- and institutional-based mechanisms. The effects of prior ties and asset specificity are not as strong as expected and the impact of safeguards on trust is not well understood. Overall, theoretical trust research has outpaced empirical research by far and promising opportunities for future empirical research exist. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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