This article integrates strategic factors influencing trust with social contextual factors to create a broader understanding of interpersonal trust across organizational boundaries. In contrast to more passive models of trust development, it introduces the construct of threat-reducing behavior...

Aim was to measure impact of existing social networks on social entrepreneurship behaviour of college students and understand if it can be inculcated in during college years. Data was collected from 240 students of a fashion college in India through an empirical survey. The data was run through...

I examine how social network members affect the use of formal care in old age. In doing so, I explore not only their provision of informal care, but also of other types of support, including information and peer effects. I use SHARE data for 11 European countries to analyse the use of...

I estimate how increased similarity with one’s friends in a social network member leads one to engage further with the social network. Participation is modeled based on user utility derived both from participating in events close to their preferred “location” and from their friends’...

We examine friendships and study partnerships among university students over several years. At the aggregate level, connections increase over time, but homophily on gender and ethnicity is relatively constant across time, university residences, and different network layers. At the individual...

Social interactions determine many economic behaviors, but information on social ties does not exist in most publicly available and widely used datasets. We present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel data that contains no information on social ties between...