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Social Networks and Trust : THEORY AND DECISION LIBRARY SERIES C, GAME THEORY, MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING, AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH - Vincent Buskens
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Social Networks and Trust

By: Vincent Buskens

Hardcover | 31 March 2002 | Edition Number 2

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This volume discusses two possible explanations for the emergence of trust via social networks. If network members can sanction untrustworthiness of actors, these actors may refrain from acting in an untrustworthy manner. Moreover, if actors are informed regularly about trustworthy behaviour of others, trust will grow among these actors. A combination of formal model building and empirical methodology is used to derive and test hypotheses about the effects of networks on trust. The models combine elements from game theory, which is mainly used in economics, and social network analysis, which is mainly used in sociology. The hypotheses are tested (1) by analyzing contracts in information technology transactions from a survey on small and medium-sized enterprises and (2) by studying judgments of subjects in a vignette experiment related to hypothetical transactions with a used-car dealer. The book should be of interest to academics in various fields within economics, sociology and political science such as game theory, organizational behaviour, social networks and rational choice theory.

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