Despite the widespread acceptance of trust as an informal governance institution, our understanding of its origins is nascent. Our review of the literature identified two distinct explanations: trust emerges from either a shadow of the past (i.e. prior history) or a shadow of the future (i.e....

Our study takes a local firms’ viewpoint to examines how African dealers may benefit from their participation with foreign suppliers. We suggest that African dealer participation is positively associated with dealer performance, and this positive effect is stronger when dealers operate in low...

It is a common practice of manufacturers to involve suppliers in new product development (NPD). Extant literature indicates that supplier integration has mixed effects on manufacturers' NPD and the contradicting findings result from either the external contingent factors or the tactical...

The study aims to explore whether internationalization by state-owned enterprises is a curse or blessing in the context of aspirant industrial economies, such as China. What do state-owned enterprises' global production aspirations, such as outward foreign direct investment, bring into their...

Previous research has found that people consult closeness or proximity cues when they evaluate the plausibility or likelihood of a counterfactual alternative to reality. In this paper we asked whether the plausibility of counterfactuals extends to dynamic proximity cues that signal a sense of...

Road accidents involving autonomous vehicles (AVs) will not only introduce legal challenges over liability distribution but also generally diminish the public trust that may make itself manifested in slowing the initial adoption of the technology and call into question the continued adoption of...

Bi2O3 is a kind of photocatalyst with excellent performance, which can generate photo-generated electrons under light. Through the recombination of Bi2O3 and BiOI, photogenerated electrons are more easily generated. UiO-66 is added to form a ternary composite material, which improves the...