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Entrepreneurs and trust

Author(s): Łukasz Trembaczowski
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: sociological theory of trust; interpersonal trust; positional trust; procedural trust; procedural trust; institutional trust; system trust; entrepreneurs

Summary/Abstract: The article presents research results of the study of entrepreneur’s trust objects. Within studied sample, entrepreneurs indicated extraordinarily high levels of general trust. The theoretical framework of the study was based on Piotr Sztopka’s sociological theory of trust. In relation to thit theory, further, more specified research questions were formulated, concerning different types of trust, mainly: interpersonal trust, positional trust, procedural trust, institutional trust, system trust. The research was conducted in Poland utilizing standardized sociological interviews as a research method on a sample of 249 randomly selected participants in the 2008.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 192-206
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish