Abstract This article discusses how institutions, including the law, can artificially produce trust between people and organizations through imposition of standards behavior, procedures competencies. Building on rational choice theory, institutionalism constructivism, this study systematizes theoretical empirical findings in three ideal types. The types have been called “calculative trust”, “in...

BACKGROUND Social capital is one of the social determinants of health, but there is still a lack of studies comparing its significance for health in different cultural settings. This study investigates and compares the relations between individual cognitive social capital and depressive symptoms and self-rated health in Sweden and Ukraine for men and women separately. STUDY DESIGN Two cross-s...

Promissory organizations like IS analysis companies or academic institutions have started to play an increasingly important role in the way organizations make sense of IS innovations. Research has so far neglected how the trust that potential adopters place in these promissory organizations affects institutional pressures that promissory organizations exert on them. In this research-in-progress...