中间信任与动态性交易：一项个案研究

本文从“嵌入性”视角,将社会关系网络———信任———经济行动者三者整合起来分析。在中国社会中,经济行动者间的信任是不同于其他个体间的信任情况,一方面他们具有工具性目的(赚钱),另一方面他们在交易过程中建立起一定的情感性关系,因而他们间信任中既有工具性信任又有情感性信任,即所谓的中间信任。另外本文结合个案分析,还提出两个假设:一是经济行动者间存在的信任中工具性成分总是大于情感性成分,二是经济行动者随着交易处于不同阶段时会相应地形成不同的信任状况(工具性成分和情感性成分的不同组合)。

Middle Trust and Dynamic Transanction:A Case Study

This article analyzes social network, trust and economical actors in an integrated way in an embedded perspective. In Chinese society, the trust between economical actors, different from that between other kinds of individuals, is middle-trust, for the trust is both instrumental and emotional. The economical actors have instrumental purpose, that is, make money and they establish emotional relationship in the process of transactions. With the case analyses, the article argues that the trust between economical actors is more instrumental than emotional and the trust will differ in the different stage of transaction, that is to say, the composition of instrumental trust and emotional trust will be different along with the transaction process.