Trust is recognised as an important component for Business-to-Business (B2B) e-commerce success and consolidation among the agribusiness operators, but few studies link trust and e-commerce in agri-food markets. The implementation of trust into technical and organisational solutions is a prerequisite for using the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) potential in the agribusiness netw...

Suppliers have experienced unexpected consequences for their businesses due to changing situations for their important customers. Such events may also occur at short notice, at least when it comes to necessary and radical decisions. Often suppliers are not aware of the full extent of these events until it is too late for them to take countermeasures, i.e. develop appropriate strategies. With in...

Scholarly interest in the study of trust and distrust in organizations has grown dramatically over the past five years. This interest has been fueled, at least in part, by accumulating evidence that trust has a number of important benefits for organizations and their members. A primary aim of this review is to assess the state of this rapidly growing literature. The review examines recent progr...

The aim of this study is to examine the impact of culture on the trust determinants in e-commerce. Adopting two broad trust building foundations (cognition-based and affect-based trust) from cross-culture literature and focusing on well-established cultural constructs as groups of culture, this study develops a theoretical model of cognition-based versus affect-based e-vendor trust, and empiric...

The use of RFID technology in complex and distributed environments often leads to a multi-domain RFID system, in which trust establishment among entities from heterogeneous domains without past interaction or prior agreed policy, is a challenge. The current trust management mechanisms in the literature do not meet the specific requirements in multi-domain RFID systems. Therefore, this paper ana...

The success of virtual teams depends largely on building and maintaining trust between the team members. Trust is crucial because it is the defining feature of a virtual collaboration. Trust has been identified as the most important component, which makes partnerships, strategic alliances, and networks of small firm successful (Lane and Bachmann, 1998). The purpose of this paper is to describe ...

Online market exchanges are usually characterized by uncertainty and risks. Establishing trust and providing trust-building mechanisms are thus crucial for marketplace providers to reduce uncertainty and risks of online transactions. Business models that focus on consumer-to-consumer (C2C) transactions are growing and prospering. For these business models, establishing trust between consumers i...

relations has largely been overlooked in the burgeoning literature on trust in the social sciences (Cook 2001; Hardin 2002); yet it is central to understanding how trust develops. In the absence of monitoring and the sanctioning of opportunistic behavior, trusting always involves some risk.1 We define trust building as the process through which social interaction opportunities involving risk ar...

This paper explores the use of the web to build trust among value web chains. Businesses tend to concentrate on the traditional tangible elements of the supply chain and ignore the crucial importance of using the web to build, develop and enhance trust in the e-marketplace. Through an extensive literature review, the major dimensions of trust are highlighted and a more precise definition and ch...

In the literature, several different definitions of trust and models have been presented to aid researchers as they apply the concepts of trust within their systems. The multiplicity of trust definitions creates a high level of ambiguity. This paper takes a step away from models of trust and attempts to define and categorize several attributes, methods of discovery, and methods of evaluation th...