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motive influences presence of trust, power sharing and different risk acceptance levels as
          factors impacting collaboration. Whereas the motive of Cost and Risk Reduction is found
          to  influence  large  partner  size  and  resource  inadequacy  as  factors  impacting
          collaboration.

          The  results  of  the  study  also  empirically  identify  trust  in  SME  collaborations  as
          Composite  Trust  –  which  involves  trust  at  interpersonal  as  well  as  interorganizational
          level. This finding supports existing literature which highlights the impact of interpersonal
          trust on interorganizational trust in the SME context. SMEs are also found to assess trust,
          both - favourably and unfavourably, predominantly with dependability dimension of trust.
          Additionally,  SMEs  tend  to  be  influenced  with  affect  when  presence  of  trust  enables
          collaboration.  Finally,  the  study  reveals  that  composite  nature  of  trust  moderates  the
          relationship between presence of trust and power balance as enablers. Also, composite
          trust  is  found  to  moderate  the  relationship  between  and  lack  of  trust  as  inhibitor  with
          Smaller  Partner  Firm;  Uncertainty  and  Difference  in  Risk  Propensity  as  inhibitors.  This
          result is supplementary to extant literature.

          Keywords: SMEs; Collaboration; Motives; Enablers and Inhibitors; Trust









































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