Understanding Trust Transfer in Construction Project Marketplace of China

摘要

Initial trust has been proved to be a crucial antecedent of Proper Risk Allocation(PRA)which benefits the improvement of construction project management.However,In the context of China,employer’s lack of trust in the unfamiliar contractor without prior trade experience is the main obstacle that prevents employer from using the RPA.The aim of this paper is to create a better understanding of a specific path of building trust named trust transfer.In this paper,we first reviews related literatures and sum up the main feature of the trust transfer from the other context(e.g.E-business),and proposed the conceptualization of trust transfer in construction project marketplace.And then,according the feature of the trust transfer,we describe the basic model of the trust transfer in the construction project marketplace including employer as the trustor,the third party(source)and the unfamiliar contractor as trustee(target),and the relationship between these three nodes.At last,we analyze the type of the third party and the relationship of the trust transfer in the context of construction project.