Beyond Ability-Benevolence-Integrity: Trust Violations Across Cultures and Moral Foundations

The study of interpersonal trust in organizations has largely relied on the framework developed by Mayer, Davis, and Schoorman (1995). The framework proposes ability, benevolence, and integrity as the bases of trustworthiness perceptions of trustors. However, given the Western bias in sampling and theory development, integrity and benevolence, which rely on an understanding of morality that prioritizes fairness and justice concerns on the one...