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An Examination of the Nature of Trust in Buyer-Seller Relationships
The authors integrate theory developed in several disciplines to determine five cognitive processes through which industrial buyers can develop trust of a supplier firm and its ...
The Theory of Economic Regulation
The state—the machinery and power of the state—is a potential resource or threat to every industry in the society. With its power to prohibit or compel, to take or give money, t...
Distribution of the Elements in Some Major Units of the Earth's Crust
This paper presents a table of abundances of the elements in the various major units of the Earth's lithic crust with a documentation of the sources and a discussion of the choi...
A Model of Distributor Firm and Manufacturer Firm Working Partnerships
A model of distributor firm and manufacturer firm working partnerships is presented and is assessed empirically on a sample of distributor firms and a sample of manufacturer fir...
Peeking Inside the Black-Box: A Survey on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
At the dawn of the fourth industrial revolution, we are witnessing a fast and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in our daily life, which contributes to acceler...
DOES FAMILIARITY BREED TRUST? THE IMPLICATIONS OF REPEATED TIES FOR CONTRACTUAL CHOICE IN ALLIANCES.
Exploring the factors that explain the choice of governance structures in interfirm alliances, this study challenges the use of a singular emphasis on transaction costs. Such an...
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
* Introduction: The Visible Hand * Modern Business Enterprise Defined * Some General Propositions * Part I. The Traditional Processses of Production and Distribution *1. The Tra...
All that is solid melts into air : the experience of modernity
A bubbling caldron of ideas . . . Enlightening and valuable. Mervyn Jones, New Statesman. The political and social revolutions of the nineteenth century, the pivotal writings of...
Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction
Platinum metals are depleted in the earth's crust relative to their cosmic abundance; concentrations of these elements in deep-sea sediments may thus indicate influxes of extrat...
Relationships between Providers and Users of Market Research: The Dynamics of Trust within and between Organizations
The authors investigate the role of trust between knowledge users and knowledge providers. The kind of knowledge of special concern is formal market research. Users include mark...