Annotated Bibliography

Castaldo, S., Premazzi, K., & Zerbini, F. (2010). The meaning(s) of trust. A content analysis on the diverse conceptualizations of trust in scholarly research on business relationships. Journal of Business Ethics, 96(4), 657-668. doi: 10.1007/s10551-010-0491-4

This journal article discusses how trust in ethics has to be addressed to have a successful business. The researcher assesses the content of the most significant trust research in the realm of the relationship of the business. The article focuses on and explores the nature of trust conceptualization, while taking the proposed definition into consideration; it also reconstructs the order of trust processes taking in consideration the patterns of the mind. The article focuses on the market relationships. This is important for settings of interest in business ethics issues and ethical values.

This article will be very useful and relevant to my paper on small businesses and their economic structure, because it gives me a guideline on how the study was conducted, the content analysis and the resulting set of definitions was reduce redundancy. The purpose of the study was to allow an encompassing definition, which includes all the identified current research and scientific data base. Each study was put together through quantitative content analysis with the out coming of trust scholars may underestimate the risk of over-trusting trust by using the word ‘‘trust’’ without necessarily controlling for content validity, while taking the construct’s face validity for granted. The research was based on cooperative behavior focused on shared values and ethics.

Chow, H. K., & Choy, K. M. (2009). Analyzing and forecasting business cycles in a small open economy: A dynamic factor model for Singapore. OECD Journal.Journal of Business Cycle Measurement and Analysis, 2009(1), 19-41. Retrieved from ttp://search.proquest.com/docview/861323924?accountid=8289

This article explains the concepts of macroeconomic variables and global economic indicators with the initial objective of analyzing business cycles in a small economy. The study takes place in Singapore from a large panel dataset dynamic factor model. The factor model explains the observed fluctuations in a real economic activity and price inflation in their business cycles. The problem is approached on an ad hoc basis, using foreign variables to estimate external shocks to the economy. The study had problems with degrees-of0freedom associated with loss of efficiency in regression-type models like single equations, large-scale macro econometric models and vector auto regressions. The stand points of the models were used from a theoretical standpoint driven by small number of common shocked and idiosyncratic components. The article demonstrates the analysis and prediction of business cycles in an archetypal small open economy and its business practices in Singapore.

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