Research on the Influencing Factors of Trust Networks of Construction Project Participants

The latest research on the governance of construction projects has centered on the cooperation efficiency among project participants and the enhancement of project performance. Trust networks can exert a remarkable role in this aspect, facilitating the cooperative behaviors of all project participants and achieving project value. Nevertheless, the facilitating factors of trust networks remain unclear, and the traditional classification factors of trust relationships between binary subjects have not been verified from the perspective of relationship networks. Hence, this study carried out a structural equation model analysis on 139 valid questionnaires to disclose the influence mechanism of trust types and trust networks, while taking into account the moderating effect produced by the objective situation of asymmetric dependence. The research indicates that cognition-based and affect-based trust positively affect the trust networks. Affect-based trust on trust networks is positively moderated by asymmetric dependence. Based on this, the trust networks research in construction project governance has established a distinct set of influence paths, and relevant governance measures will be systematically implemented.