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New Models of Collaboration: An Overview



The Keys to Success

Trust

All of the cases involved the development and exercise of trust. Two kinds of trust relationships were critical to the successful implementation of these projects:

  • public trust or the degree to which citizens and other groups in society believe the project or service program can be trusted to treat them fairly; and
  • professional trust or the degree to which people and organizations charged with developing and delivering a service believe they can rely on the motives and predict the performance of other participants. Three types of trust (calculus- based trust, identity-based trust, and institution- based trust) were evident in the ways that project teams handled issues they faced.