| Trustworthiness antecedent | Empirical findings | Authors | |||
| Alignment: Adherence and acceptability of a set of principles, compatibility of beliefs and values (value congruence), and shared values and/or objectives, belong to a group and informal agreements [14] (27 articles) | |||||
| To adopt informal agreements | |||||
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| · To adherence to informal codes of conduct | Welter and Kautonen, 2005 | |||
| · To abidance by initially verbal agreement | Weber and Weber, 2011 | ||||
| · To develop transaction with the customer based on usual procedures without formal agreements | Presutti et al., 2011 | ||||
| · To keep informal agreements strict | Jansson, 2011 | ||||
| · To carry out an informal social contract | Bergh et al., 2011 | ||||
| To adherence to formal codes of conduct | Welter and Kautonen, 2005 | ||||
| To meet established incubator’s tenant acceptance criteria (by the incubators’ established tenant acceptance criteria) | Totterman and Sten, 2005 | ||||
| Common goals and shared value (actions confirm shared values and/or objectives) | |||||
| · To possess common culture | |||||
| To be involved in religious activities | Jenssen and Kristiansen, 2004 | ||||
| To share cultural attributes (e.g. attitude towards education) | Altinay, 2008 | ||||
| Being part of an ethnic minority group and sharing a common ethnicity To keep close cultural ties To possess similar language | Altinay et al., 2014 | ||||
| To share common religion | Altinay, 2008; Nwankwo and Gbadamosi, 2013 [82] ; Altinay et al., 2014; Phillips et al., 2013 [83] | ||||
| To share cultural qualities | Mobility: It refers to attitudes and habits in geographical travelling where the sense of mobility is part of a group’s collective subjectivity | Jenssen and Kristiansen, 2004 | |||
| Group cohesion: It means ethnic groups and religious sects have strong bonding qualities, moral conformity and ritual practices… | Jenssen and Kristiansen, 2004 | ||||
| · To have demographic tiles | |||||