The economic literature has discussed the links between trust and gender, and trust and social capital. Given that some empirical evidence shows also that gender and trust are somehow related and specifically women tend to trust less than men, I try to investigate the effect of social capital on generalized trust, controlling also for the “gender effect”. This latter could be due to the fact th...

Trust is an important variable in economics, as several transactions are based on it; unfortunately it is difficult to measure. The recent economic literature on social capital shows a positive association between this concept and trust. As social capital is easier to measure than trust is, this paper analyzes the possibility of assessing trust measuring social capital using experimental econom...

To discover ways that the biomedical research community can foster the public's trust essential to sustain the research enterprise, in 2005 the authors and their colleagues convened a group of national leaders from sectors outside of academic science and health care that are also dependent on the public's trust. These leaders provided information about what their sectors do to earn the public's...

Purpose – Business process outsourcing (BPO) has become so prevalent that a new term, the extended enterprise, has arisen to describe this approach to structuring an organization. The purpose of this article is to integrate the information systems and the interfirm governance literatures to develop a framework for the role of trust in the governance of extended enterprises. Design/methodology/a...

This paper tackles the notable concept of automated trust negotiation and presents preliminary results on its integration in the realm of multi-agent systems. First, a review of the relevant literature on automated trust negotiation is given and basic ideas are discussed. Then, a motivated introduction of a novel protocol for automated trust negotiation in multi-agent systems is presented and t...

The purpose of this exploratory study has been to provide insight into the success factors ECF campaigns and, in particular, explore role trust. In specific, research questions for are: (1) What dimensions have studied so far, and (2) is there any established literature on sustainability, blockchain technology trust realm ECF. To that end, a systematic review conducted by investigating ISI Web ...

Trust and conflict are inherent characteristics of any organizational arrangement and central for knowledge sharing; yet they have received limited attention in the knowledge management literature. In this paper, we undertake an investigation of both trust and conflict within the context of virtual inter-organizational arrangements, which represent linkages for value-laden shared knowledge. The...

This paper studies the need to integrate trust and Technology acceptance model (TAM) to understand the behaviour intention of the customer to use mobile banking. The present study focuses through literature review on trust related antecedents and technology related constructs and its influence on customer decision. It covers disposition to trust, institution-based trust, cognitive-base trust, s...

In response to weaknesses of current network security solutions, the zero-trust model follows idea that no – whether internal or external is trustworthy. The concept enjoying increasing attention in both research and practice due its promise fulfil complex new requirements. Despite zero-trust's advantages over traditional it has not yet succeeded replacing existing approaches. Uncertainty remai...

This study examines two aspects of organizational trust, as identified in the relevant literature: cognition-based (rational) trust and affect-based (relational) trust. Using hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), we explore and analyze the antecedents of organizational trust in the public sector at a hierarchical and multi-level ordering structure, and empirically test the effects of different ty...