Technology & Trust

The Architecture of Surrender: Re-framing Voluntary Agency Delegation as a Trust Engine in Modern Firms

Sonny Saggar, MD

Research brief by Sonny Saggar. The full paper is available on SSRN.

What this paper examines

Examines how delegation within firms can create or weaken trust.

Original research

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