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Trust, Morality and International Business

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

George G. Brenkert
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Abstract:

This paper argues that trust is one of the crucial bases for an international business morality. To defend this claim, it identifies three prominent senses of trust in the current literature and defends one of them, viz., what I term the “Attitudinal view.” Three different contexts in which such trust plays a role in business relationships are then described, as well as the conditions for the specific kinds of Attitudinal trust which appear in those contexts. Difficulties for the international development of these forms of trust are briefly characterized and some of the possible responses are noted. Finally, the paper identifies morally important features of trust and some of their implications for an international business morality.

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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , April 1998 , pp. 293 - 317
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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 1998

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