The Trust Mechanism between Enterprises in Traditional Industrial Clusters: Some Empirical Evidence from Zhejiang Area of China

As a particular spatial organizational form, the industrial cluster has exhibited extraordinary energy in the economic systems throughout the world nowadays and has attracted increasing attentions from both researchers and decision-makers in many fields. On the basis of reviewing the theory of trust between organizations, this paper focuses on the industrial clusters in Zhejiang province. We explore the establishment of trust between enterprises within industrial clusters and try to find the main source and the characteristics and key factors in the different stages of trust establishment