Mutual trust
Leadership
About this scale
To measure the construct, the authors relied on scale items previously used by Zaheer et al. (1998), and Inkpen & Currall (1997).
Notes
It is a bit surprising that the factor loading for the first item, which actually asks for "mutual trust", is lower than the one of the fourth item; this might indicate that the scale slightly misses what it is intended
Source & citation
Lavie et al. (2012): Organizational Differences, Relational Mechanisms, and Alliance Performance. Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 33, No. 13, pp. 1453–1479
Source & licence. This scale entry is compiled from the Wikibooks Handbook of Management Scales, used under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence. Always consult the original publication (cited above) for the complete item set and permission to use.
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