E-Commerce’s virtuality poses questions concerning trust between buyer and seller. Web 2.0 formats have provided new complications for these questions. Companies are creating more social networking sites, experimenting with ways to use such networks for marketing purposes. This paper explores the issue of trust in social networking site transactions vs. those at more established e-commerce site...

Trust can best be understood as a relational attribute between (1) social actor and other actor(s) (interpersonal trust) / or (2) actors institutions (institutional systemic (3) (trusting) (trust shared expectations), where institutional frameworks define the nature strength of trust relationships different actors.

Abstract This study revisits the drivers of populist voting in Europe, focusing on interplay between economic insecurity and institutional trust. Specifically, it examines degree to which decision vote for a party is driven by insecurity, while explicitly accounting moderating role two types trust: trust national institutions European Parliament. The paper tests this effect primarily using Soci...

Abstract How the media influence trust that citizens have in institutions such as politics and science seems more important than ever, given decline of institutional Western societies, increasingly diversified landscape. This paper focuses on relationship between repertoires, trust, two socializing contexts (parents, social networks). Applying Latent Class Analysis, this examines (a) how parent...

Recent trust research in the information systems (IS) field has described trust as a primary predictor of technology usage and a fundamental construct for understanding user perceptions of technology. Initial trust formation is particularly relevant in an IS context, as users must overcome perceptions of risk and uncertainty before using a novel technology. With initial trust in a more complex,...

Individualistic cultures that prevail in predominantly developed economies thrive on ecommerce environments where consumer trust is facilitated through trust mechanisms such as institutional guarantees, laws and policies, information security mechanisms, and social controls. These trust mechanisms are based on individualist cultural norms of behaviour and values, and are not always relevant to ...