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:
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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
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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.