Principals collectivize trust oversight to gain leverage through embedded ties.
Evidence
Other principals join membership associations and support public-interest group watchdogs or collectivize to share the costs and enjoy the economies of scale involved in protecting their trust. Collectivization also serves as an embeddedness strategy, since these associations are more likely than their constituents to have dense, repetitive, or ongoing ties to trustees that enable them to select, monitor, and control those who act on their behalf (Galanter 1974). — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 98
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Impersonal trust emerges where principals lose direct power to regulate agents. — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 51; Outside trust inspectors must infer trustee quality from indirect evidence. — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 98
Related
- Impersonal trust emerges where principals lose direct power to regulate agents. (similarity 0.81)
- Trust control is a specialized occupation that sidelines ordinary actors (similarity 0.81)
- Outside trust inspectors must infer trustee quality from indirect evidence. (similarity 0.80)
- Mechanisms for controlling impersonal trust themselves create new opportunities for abuse (similarity 0.79)
- Even honest guardians may not actually deliver the protection principals assume. (similarity 0.79)
- Impersonal trust persists despite agency tensions and varies greatly across conditions. (similarity 0.79)
- Principals mitigate distrust by hoarding wealth, self-sufficiency, or acquiring expertise. (similarity 0.79)
- Trusted agents face a dense lattice of institutional surveillance. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Impersonal trust emerges where principals lose direct power to regulate agents.
#expands(0.82) — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 51