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Trust in Large Organizations / Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silane, Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- La Porta, Rafael.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w5864.
- NBER working paper series no. w5864
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1996.
- Summary:
- Several authors suggest that trust is an important determinant of cooperation between strangers in a society, and therefore of performance of social institutions. We argue that trust should be particularly important for the performance of large organizations. In a cross-section of countries, evidence on government performance, participation in civic and professional societies, importance of large firms, and the performance of social institutions more generally supports this hypothesis. Moreover, trust is lower in countries with dominant hierarchical religions, which may have deterred networks of cooperation trust hold up remarkably well on a cross-section of countries.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- December 1996.
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