Further, trust and commitment are interrelated and these two are the key elements of relational governance (Morgan & Hunt, 1999; Zhou & Xu, 2012).Overall, it can be expected that partnerships relying on relational/cooperative norms as the major mechanism for governing mutual inter dependencies provide a more motivating (or less arduous) basis for knowledge sharing and joint problem solving than partnerships in which relational norms are weak or absent (Heiman & Nickerson, 2004).