TY - JOUR AB - Employee participation enhances organizational effectiveness. Trust in employees leads to encouragement and acceptance of participation in decision making. There has been recent and growing interest in understanding the basic characteristics of managerial mechanisms within township‐village enterprises (TVEs) in China and how these affect organizational performance. This empirical study investigates how trust influences managers’ decision‐making behavior in the township‐village enterprises in China. The findings of the study suggest that, although TVE managers develop a high level of trust in the dependability, predictability and good faith of their employees, only trust in employee dependability is positively related to participation in the decision‐making process. VL - 18 IS - 6 SN - 0268-3946 DO - 10.1108/02683940310494377 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/02683940310494377 AU - Wang Yuan PY - 2003 Y1 - 2003/01/01 TI - Trust and decision‐making styles in Chinese township‐village enterprises T2 - Journal of Managerial Psychology PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 541 EP - 556 Y2 - 2024/04/26 ER -