Types of Trust and Team Performance in Inter-Organizational Teams,

The present study investigates inter-organizational teams, composed by entrepreneurs and managers of different companies that join together the reach common goal/s. This type of team offers a valuable context in which different kinds of trust (inter-organizational and team trust) may develop and impact the performance of the team. A questionnaire was used to collect information; this includes the following independent variables: team identification (Mael & Ashfort, 1992); trust in the team (Costa & Anderson, 2011), inter-organizational trust (Norman, 2002) and prior knowledge of the other partners. The dependent variables are: perceived team performance (Hoegl & Gemueden, 2001, scale that measures team effectiveness and team efficiency) and team satisfaction (Smith & Barclay, 1997) and individual member commitment with the inter-organizational collaboration (Allen & Meyer, 1990).