Credibility is a powerful and compelling notion. An amalgam of trust and believability, it provides a lens for examining and understanding economic, social, and political situations arising in many arenas, as two divergent but related situations that have come to my attention of late suggest. Consider the following interaction between a father, Abhinay, and his daughter, Aruna. Abhinay says to ...

Purpose: Based on signal theory and legitimacy theory, this paper examines whether firms with financial reporting misstatements (restatements) would prefer conservative to send signals regarding their determinants of improving credibility legitimate organizational image in Taiwan. This further these reduce the demand for after replacing managers reveal restatements.

The credibility of website is a sort of psychological feeling, in other words, a sense of trust and its intensity towards the enterprise’s website produced by the customers from individual or collective perspective. The credibility of website has become a decisive factor for the website’s survival and an important driving force of promotion and market expansion. Currently, the credibility of we...

This study aims to analyze the effects of YouTube influencers’ source credibility and information quality platform on destination image young travellers’ intention visit a destination. Stimulus-organism-response (SOR) theory was adopted develop tested research model. applied quantitative approach where primary data collected through online surveys 198 subscribers who had watched examined channe...

This study examines how bloggers establish and enhance the credibility of their blogs through a series of blogging practices. Based on an analysis of interviews with 22 independent bloggers who blog on a range of topics, we present audience-aware credibility as a theoretical construct. Audience-aware credibility is defined as how bloggers signal their credibility based on who they think their a...

This paper examines the influence of news credibility on corporate image broadcast media in Nigeria. The was anchored preliminary assumption that a relationship exists between disseminated and how public perceives it. Source Credibility Theory Perception were used as its theoretical framework. A Survey 375 respondents, eventual outcome distributed 400 copies questionnaire provided evidence conf...

The proliferation of user-generated content (UGC) is one of the distinguishing characteristics of Web 2.0. Internet users contribute content online through platforms such as blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, and sites that allow user feedback. Yet little is known of the credibility practices of these content contributors. Through phone interviews conducted with 29 online content contributors, ...

This article considers recent changes to legal provisions governing harassment at work, in particular sexual harassment, in the UK, in the light of EU Directive 2002/73/EC, and the remedies available in the courts and employment tribunals. This article then provides a statistical profi le of a total of 21,335 sex discrimination cases brought to nine employment tribunals in the UK between 2003 a...