Burgeoning research on trust has revealed an incomplete understanding of how government trust shapes the R&D behaviors … standard deviation increase in the government trust index, an SME has a 15.2% increase in the standard deviation of their R … they trust the government, accounting for approximately 29% of the impact of government trust on an SME’s R&D investment …

role of trust in lender-borrower relationships. Trust may be expected to reduce transaction costs and agency costs, and … trust (via the intervening variables of perceived ability, benevolence and integrity of borrowers) was collected from a … the proposition that trust has a significant impact on credit granted to SMEs. The findings have important implications …

I empirically test the role of trust in strategic alliances by using survey data from 67 German small and medium …-sized enterprises (SMEs). Empirical findings indicate that high trust levels are a good predictor of alliance success. This result is … trust. Furthermore, the study shows that the level of safeguards used in an alliance is decreasing in the level of trust and …