Abstract:
This paper focuses mainly on social aspects concerning trust and network, especially
in higher education institutions. Trust plays a crucial role as social capital and
is an important factor of social order, especially in countries in transition. The
hypothesis that low trust is one major problem of entrepreneurship will be examined.
In low-trust environments, trust is abused as soon as it is placed instead of being honored.
Different strategies to avoid the abuse of trust, like control by contracts etc., are
not useful instruments. Whether networks help to increase trust is discussed briefly
in this paper.
Universities worldwide are in a process of change. In these change processes, the
entrepreneurial universities play a great role. Due to the lack of resources, income
generating becomes an important activity of universities. Although research is a quite
different activity from entrepreneurial ones, the paper examines the interrelationship
between both activities prospectively.
Machine summary:
"We have excluded the context in which trust can be organized in terms of min- imizing the risk and abuse of trust by developing certain tools, like net- works, and improving confidence, developing effective contracts, subcon- tracts and increasing honor trust, the trustfulness and trustworthiness in action with others.
Although we have been mentioning the importance of the acceptance of being depended from alter in case of trust, we must assume that the quality of depend- ency goes hand in hand with the confidence of individuals in buying ones own autonomy, becoming one's own master, and being independ- ent of any kind of timetable and controls imposed by supervision, either in a traditional society dominated by norms of the clan, ingroups and extended families, or by doing business in dependent systems of enterprise and in the public sector, especially focusing on the staff in public universities.
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However, research must be done on how to answer the following questions in relation to our hypotheses mentioned above: What can be learned through the social networks by the trustor, and what are the effects of learning related to indvidual and global parame- ters of the social network, especially in terms of cliental research activ- ities in low-trust environments?"