2000 International Student Paper Award Winner: Trust Building on Corporate Collaborative Project Teams

Trust has been identified as a success factor in successful collaboration. Senior managers may learn to trust each other during collaborative venture negotiation. However, corporate collaborative team members may have no choice regarding fellow collaborators. This paper focuses on collaborative team trust building. It discusses research considerations, current practices, literature, methodology, and results. The paper explains research implications and recommends specific actions for building corporate collaborative team trust. Proposed is a people-oriented model for trust-based project management. Integrating trust-building approaches into the collaborative team environment will help position teams and their respective companies for strategic competition in the marketplace.