The Social Constitution of Trust: Supplier Relations in Britain and Germany
研究信任如何减少企业间纵向关系的不确定性，基于英德比较实证分析，发现信任依赖稳定的法律、政治和社会制度，而非自发产生。
Trust is analysed as a means to reduce uncertainty and risk in vertical inter-firm relationships. Both theoretically and with reference to empirical comparative research (Britain and Germany), it is shown that trust-based relations between buyer and supplier firms rarely evolve spontaneously on the level of individual interaction but are highly dependent on the existence of stable legal, political and social institutions.