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Bridging East And West To Develop New Products And Trust: Interdependence And Interaction Between A Hong Kong Parent And North American Subsidiary

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  • DEAN TJOSVOLD

    (Department of Management, Lingnan College, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, P. R. China)

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Trusting relationships have been theorised to be critical for specialists to work together but little research has clarified how trust can be fostered. Deutsch's theory of cooperation and competition was used to examine how trust is developed among new product specialists based in the Hong Kong parent and its Canadian subsidiary. Effective conflict management may be critical for both the innovation needed to create new products and for trust. The study proposes that trust is tested and strengthened when people disagree with each other openly and use each other's ideas to be more productive. Results indicate that cooperative goals contribute to an open-minded discussion of views that lead to productive collaborative work, which in turn, results in trust.

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  • Dean Tjosvold, 1999. "Bridging East And West To Develop New Products And Trust: Interdependence And Interaction Between A Hong Kong Parent And North American Subsidiary," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 3(02), pages 233-252.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:03:y:1999:i:02:n:s1363919699000116
    DOI: 10.1142/S1363919699000116
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