Trust is modelled as either enforceable or intrinsic. Antecedents of trust in history, human nature, personality and culture are analyzed. The implications of these for the dynamics of trust in business-to-business networks of organizations are discussed. Finally an agenda for empirical research is proposed, of which the author argues there is great need because of the crucial role of trust in ...

To elicit an affected population’s preferences for, e.g., better health or environment stated preference (SP) methods are often used. SP methods are based on hypothetical market settings which necessitates validity tests of the results. This study describes a validity test on the basis of theoretical predictions and empirical findings for private and public safety measures. According to the tes...

Improving biological sustainability through health and wellness improvements in the built environment is currently being applied to high-end real estate development in both the residential and commercial environment in the United States. However, the market for health and wellness extends well beyond the top income bracket. This study adopts a choice experiment (CE) approach to investigate indi...

The article addresses the subject of gender pay gap, providing an in-depth analysis decision on merits European Committee Social Rights regarding complaint no. 136/2016, against Portugal. To this end, it renders overview most relevant international and provisions matter explanation Portuguese legal regime. sociological reasons for disparity are also discussed, as well difficulties associated wi...

The expansion of higher education raises the risk environment for school-leavers as more occupations become partially graduate with the result that occupational signals are fuzzy. This makes the educational decision more difficult and more risky, especially with more of the cost of higher education being transferred to the individual. After a discussion of the nature of risk, derived from Beck,...

Do people from different countries and different backgrounds have similar preferences for how much more the rich should earn than the poor? Using survey data from 40 countries (N = 55,238), we compare respondents' estimates of the wages of people in different occupations-chief executive officers, cabinet ministers, and unskilled workers-to their ideals for what those wages should be. We show th...

INTRODUCTION Gender disparities in income continue to exist, and many studies have quantified the gap between male and female workers. These studies paint an incomplete picture of gender income disparity because of their reliance on notoriously inaccurate or incomplete surveys. We quantified gender reimbursement disparity between female and male healthcare providers using objective, non-self-re...

With the emergence of fast and standardized communication infrastructures over which separately designed agents of different organizations can interact in real-time, there is an increasing demand for cooperation mechanisms that allow to carry out inter-organizational cooperations in a safe way. The lack of external control over an agent’s decisions, resources and actions hamper the usage of tra...

Provisioning resources for network services introduces the con icting requirement for both deterministic tra c models to isolate and police users, and statistical multiplexing to e ciently utilize and share network resources. We address this issue by introducing two complimentary schemes for QoS management for deterministically policed ows. The rst is adversarial mode resource allocation: here ...