ICIS Panel Summary: Should Institutional Trust Matter in Information Systems Research?

Should Institutional Trust Matter in Information Systems Research?

Overview 5 6 Given the importance of trust in online environments, information systems research has recently embraced trust research (e.g., 7 Ba and Pavlou 2002; Gefen et al. 2003, Jarvenpaa et al. 1999; McKnight et al. 2002; Stewart 2003). However, despite the 8 enormous interest in the topic of trust by IS researchers (with 129 published papers listed in ABI/INFORM), most of this research 9 s...

Panel: Grand Challenges for Information Systems Research

Research Directions in Information Systems: Toward an Institutional Ecology

Neil C. Ramiller School of Business Administration Portland State University

Panel Summary: Incentives, Markets and Information Security

Economics and information security should be naturally related: the former deals with the value and distribution of scarce resources, while the latter focuses on protecting and controlling valued resources. Indeed, the observation that information security should be informed by economic theory is not new. Anderson [1] and others have explicitly highlighted the relationship, which can be seen as...

Why different trust relationships matter for information systems users