TY  - JOUR
U1  - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
A1  - Schomaker, Rahel M.
A1  - Bauer, Michael W.
A1  - Kappler, Moritz
T1  - Public-private partnerships caught in a trust-trap and the potential role of information: The burden of divergent rationales
JF  - European Journal of Government and Economics: EJGE
N2  - Trust is known to be beneficial for cooperation, though remains underdeveloped in public-private partnerships (PPPs), which are caught in a trust trap due to the cooperative regime’s internal heterogeneity. Accordingly, PPP’s inherent trust relationship is disentangled, and the burden of divergent actor rationales is introduced. We hypothesize that potential PPPs find themselves ex ante in a situation that requires certain repair mechanisms before the ‘usual’ venues of trust development can become effective. As such, exogenous information is theo-rized as quasi-substitute for relational experience that may support the development of a ‘leap of faith’. Theoretical considerations are tested by a vignette experiment with represen-tatives of both the public and the private sector. Within and between-group analyses find strong support for the burden of divergent rationales and stable levels of (role-based) trust. However, the effect of the information treatment on trust levels is limited.
Y1  - 2024
UR  - https://revistas.udc.es/index.php/ejge/article/download/9773/g9773_pdf
SN  - 2254-7088
SS  - 2254-7088
VL  - 13
IS  - 1
SP  - 5
EP  - 28
PB  - Servizo de Publicacións - Universidade da Coruña
CY  - A Coruña
ER  -