Trust is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon. Organizational trust is an important part of professional relationships between co-workers, between managers and employees, or between employees and managers. Trust can be either interpersonal or institutional in nature. To measure, understand, and explain trust in an organizational context, it is important to identify different dimensions of ...

What is the relationship between trust and quality of political institutions in a society? According to an influential cultural perspective, social trust—the belief that most people can be trusted—is value inculcated during individuals’ formative years, remains fixed afterward. A second perspective holds reflects experiences throughout life course, particularly interactions with public official...

Social computing and online communities are changing the fundamental way people communicate and share information. Social computing focuses on how users may have more autonomy to express their ideas and participate in social exchanges in various ways, one of which may be Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing. Given the risk of opportunistic behavior by malicious and/or criminal communities within the...

Social computing and online communities are changing the fundamental way people share information and communicate with each other. Social computing focuses on how users may have more autonomy to express their ideas and participate in social exchanges in various ways, one of which may be peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing. Given the greater risk of opportunistic behavior by malicious or criminal co...

The industrialization of agriculture and the potential problem of small-scale farmer marginalization calls for a fresh approach to the design of agribusiness supply chain arrangements in developing countries. The objective of the paper is to contribute to a better understanding of institutional arrangements that can promote stable smallholder agribusiness contracting arrangements in a developin...

In his seminal 1985 paper, Mark Granovetter criticises classical and neoclassical economists’ underand modern sociologists’ over-socialised conceptions of economic action. He argues that individuals do not maximise their utility functions independently of each other, but also that their actions are not the result of a behavioural script being executed since they internalised it through socialis...

Research in the area of attitudes towards immigration could benefit from a more thorough discussion of the relationship between degrees of political engagement and trust towards specific social institutions and the variance of political and social tolerance towards immigrants. Drawing upon three general theories: realistic group conflict theory, social identification theory, and institutional t...

Research in the area of attitudes towards immigration could benefit from a more thorough discussion of the relationship between degrees of political engagement and trust towards specific social institutions and the variance of political and social tolerance towards immigrants. Drawing upon three general theories: realistic group conflict theory, social identification theory, and institutional t...

In order to authenticate and authorize users and other peer-services, Grid services need to maintain a list of authorities that they trust as a source for issuing credentials. Grids inherently span multiple institutional administration domains and aim to support the sharing of applications, data, and computational resources in a collaborative environment. In this environment there may exist hun...