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The role of trust as mediator between contract, information and knowledge within business incubators
November 13, 2014 Editor 0
The role of trust as mediator between contract, information and knowledge within business incubators
Benjamin Vedel; Inès Gabarret
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol. 23, No. 4 (2014) pp. 509 – 527
The relationship between the incubator team and the tenants is very important to the success of the incubation process. A good relationship is based on cooperation and both parties need to be committed (Rice, 2002). From a monitoring point of view, incubator managers can use two mechanisms to build good relationships with their tenants: the contract and trust. We analysed 177 incubated firms using multiple regression analysis and a structural equation methodology. Our results show that trust acts as a mediator between the contract and both information disclosure and knowledge acquisition.Related Posts
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