Announcing
Cooperation and trust in the context of SMEs
A special issue of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and
Innovation, Volume 11, Number 2, May 2010
The guest editors set the scene for this special issue which examines
the relationship between trust and venture performance.
They propose a perspective and method that aims to reveal both the
differences and the complementary contributions of research projects on
trust based on a variety of partially overlapping definitions. They
argue that it is not necessary to find one unitary definition of trust
on which all researchers will agree but that researchers can position
themselves in a specific definitional corridor that provides both
flexibility and theoretical guidance.
To view the abstracts go to
www.ippublishing.com and select the journal
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
The articles
High-risk and low-risk cooperative exchanges and perceived benefits in
formal business, Terry L Besser and Nancy J Miller analyses the
determinants of perceived benefits of membership in business networks.
They find positive connections between trust and various dimensions of
network benefits and that trust is positively related to the number of
exchange relationships, regardless of whether they are high or low risk.
Does size matter? Balancing power in dyadic cooperation relationships,
by Dietmar Roessl, Matthias Fink and Sascha Kraus, looks at dependency
and power in cooperative relationships between small and large firms.
The issue of confidence is highlighted in Michael Troilo's paper, The
role of trust in new SME creation: differences in motivations and
opportunities, argues that trust is a 'societal belief in the honesty of
other actors' and shows some interesting differences between developed
and developing countries.
Cooperative micro-firm strategies: leveraging resources through learning
networks, by Leanna Reinl and Felicity Kelliher, highlights the
importance of cooperative learning and demonstrates that whilst business
owners may be reluctant to share their ideas, the confidence that owners
from the same industry will not take unfair advantage of shared ideas
and learning is crucial to cooperative learning.
Patrick Saparito and Kenneth Colwell's article, The multidimensional
form and role of trust in the small capitalization debt finance market
analyses the role of calculus-based trust, knowledge-based trust and
identification-based trust in the context of small firm-bank
relationships.
About the Guest Editors
The Guest Editors of this special issue are Matthias Fink, Assistant
Professor in the Department of Small Business Management and
Entrepreneurship at Vienna University of Economics and Business
Administration, Rainer Harms, Assistant Professor at NIKOS, the Dutch
Institute for Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship at the University of
Twente and Guido Mollering, Senior Research Associate at the Max Planck
Institute for the Study of Societies.
About the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation For
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Innovation see
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Anne Davenport
For IP Publishing Ltd, 258 Belsize Road, London NW6 4BT
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