Which Type of Trust for Inter-firm Learning?

Ayse Eli-super-˙f Sengun

Industry and Innovation, 2010, vol. 17, issue 2, 193-213

Abstract: This study investigates the association between types of trust and inter-firm learning in buyer-supplier exchanges in an industrial cluster. More specifically, the study explores the impact of trust types on knowledge sharing among manufacturer and retailer SMEs in a furniture cluster. The results of empirical data from 158 manufacturers suggest no significant association between trust based on competence, reliability and predictability and inter-firm learning and a significant positive association between trust based on goodwill, benevolence and non-opportunism and inter-firm learning. The study findings integrate research on the relational and knowledge-related aspects of knowledge exchange at the dyadic inter-firm level.

Keywords: Goodwill trust; competence trust; inter-firm learning; clusters; furniture industry; buyer-supplier exchanges; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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