High Growth Firms in Low Trust Environments - an Empirical Study
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https://doi.org/10.18559/SOEP.2017.9.3Keywords:
Entrepreneurship, Trust, Organizational trust, Qualitative research, Startup, Empirical researchesAbstract
According to existing studies, high growth enterprises flourish mainly in high trust societies. The article presents a qualitative study conducted among successful start-ups in Poland, where the level of social trust is extremely low.
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