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Book cover Organizational Trust

Part of the book series: Contributions to Management Science ((MANAGEMENT SC.))

Abstract

The lack of a unified and standardized trust definition across all schools of thought leads to a general lack and fragmentation of understanding of the trust and Management Accounting phenomena. Due to the scarce existing literature this research naturally involves some explorative elements. This chapter is about discussing the research methodology and elaborates different possibilities to provide one solution, which is believed to be the best choice for this research. The research methods are presented in the end of this chapter.

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Mühl, J.K. (2014). Research Methodology. In: Organizational Trust. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04069-1_4

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