Trust is increasingly important in the business world. In recent years globalization has allowed us to interact with a number of dissimilar cultures. Since trust is of extreme importance in forming business relationships, an examination of national culture, trust building processes, and trust in Taiwan and Canada revealed that national culture can affect the way in which a person forms inter-personal business relationships. The basis of this study focused on Hofstede’s cultural dimensions. This study attempted to show that individualism/collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity/femininity, and power distance can determine to what extent people from different national cultures form trust via a number of trusting building processes.

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