Exploring the Role of Trust in the Deal–Making Process for Early–Stage Technology Ventures
通过实证研究早期技术创业中的交易过程，发现交易者在不同阶段依赖不同形式的信任，并据此提出了信任在整合强关系和弱关系中的过程模型和命题。
The deal–making process requires entrepreneurial actors to create and maintain wide networks of weak ties while simultaneously developing stronger collaborative ties that will enable opportunities to be realized. We currently lack an adequate account of how these activities are integrated by deal–makers under conditions of risk and uncertainty. In an empirical study of deal making in early–stage technology ventures, we find that deal–makers rely on different forms of trust in the early and later phases. Based on this study, we develop a process model and propositions on the role of trust in integrating strong and weak ties in deal making.