Such firms do not enjoy the benefits that size brings – they are Davids taking on Goliaths, and we have styled them “micro-giants”. Some small firms compete in markets against major multi-national firms and face the dauntingchallenge of having to develop sustainable strategies for building and maintaining relative competitiveness against much bigger firms. In doing so, our review offers a systematic and comprehensive view of the current state of the trust literature in organizational sciences and provides a blueprint for future research. Building on this foundation, we further identify the current strengths, weaknesses, and research gaps, offer recommendations for integration across levels and referents, and discuss lingering questions that research so far has overlooked. In this review, we adopt a levels of analysis approach to organize the research on trust between 20 in multiple referents that include interpersonal, teams, and organizations at the individual, team, and organizational levels and analyze the similarities and differences in antecedents, consequences, and theoretical perspectives dominant at each level. Moreover, as trust is a linchpin for divergent areas, such as negotiation, leadership, team processes, human resource management, organizational change, entrepreneurship, and strategic alliances, a multilevel-multireferent review of trust can facilitate integration in the field of organizational sciences. A systematic review of trust research across levels and trust referents is sorely needed to synthesize the growing number of both micro and macro studies on this topic. Despite of the importance of trust across multiple levels in organizations, extant reviews have focused predominantly on trust at the individual level.
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