Trust and Entrepreneurship

Edited by Hans-Hermann Höhmann, Honorary Professor of Political Science, University of Cologne and Coordinator of the Economic Culture Programme, Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen and Friederike Welter, President and Managing Director, Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn and Professor, University of Siegen, Germany

'The volume addresses an interesting and important topic indeed, of substantial relevance to scholars of trust, entrepreneurship, international management, and organizational networks. . . Especially valuable are the insights the book provides into the impact of cultural and legal institutions as supporting and constraining entrepreneurship. The editors are to be particularly congratulated for avoiding simplistic answers, and facing up to the complexity and context-specificity of trust at the micro, meso and macro-level.'

• Contents: Introduction Part I: Concepts, Evolution, Measurements 1. The Concept of Trust: Some Notes on Definitions, Forms and Sources 2. Culture versus Branch? Looking at Trust and Entrepreneurial Behaviour from a Cultural and Sectoral Perspective 3. The Dark Side of Trust: Corruption and Entrepreneurship – A Cross-National Comparison between Emerging and Mature Market Economies 4. Social Capital in Western and Eastern Europe 5. A Societal View: The Institutionalism of Trust 6. Measuring Trust and Trustworthiness Part II: Trust and Entrepreneurial Behaviour in Transition Environments 7. Trust-Building in Different Forms of Systemic Transition 8. Establishing Trust in a Distrustful Society: The Case of Russian Business 9. Trust-Milieus of Russian SMEs: Cross-regional Comparisons 10. The Effect of Trust in Courts on the Performance of Ukrainian SMEs 11. Emergence of and Changes in Trust in SMEs in Estonia 12. Trust as a Matter of Experiences? Findings from the ICT Sector of East Germany and Poland Part III: Trust and Entrepreneurial Behaviour in Mature Market Economies 13. Trust in Small-firm Business Networks in East and West Germany 14. Trust, Co-operation and Networking in an Immigrant Business Community: The Case of Chinese-owned Businesses in the UK 15. Global Competition and Entrepreneurial Behaviour in Industrial Districts: Trust Relations in an Italian Industrial District 16. Local Policies and Trust Relations: The Case of the Vato Territorial Pact Index