Table 3 Integrated understanding of trust and suspicion, simplified and adjusted for the purpose of this paper after Lewicki et al. [155]
From: Conceptual framework for increasing legitimacy and trust of sustainability governance
Low levels of suspicion | High levels of suspicion | |
|---|---|---|
High levels of trust | Trust by normative congruence Poor incentive for monitoring and control Prone to emotional and ideological manipulation | Trust by verification High incentive for continuous monitoring and control Possibly prone to data manipulation, unless data quality is also monitored and controlled |
Low levels of trust | Limited interdependence Poor incentive for monitoring and control | Harmful motives assumed and potential paranoia and conspiracy theories Monitoring and control is disbelieved Believe in ideology or “pathos” and “ethos” and disbelieve in data or “logos” is common Prone to emotional and ideological manipulation |