This paper contributes to the existing but scarce literature on customer-centric sustainability and measures consumers’ perceptions of fast-fashion brands regarding economic, environmental, social sustainability. Furthermore, it aims test impact each dimension customer–brand relationships, specifically brand trust, affective commitment, continuance commitment. A research model nine hypotheses w...

This paper develops a model to understand the influence of relationship bondings on the structure of trust between partners in American-Mexican strategic alliances. Results showed that American partners perceived structural and social dependency from their Mexican counterparts as building the cognitive component of trust negatively. Mexicans perceived that higher level of social bondings reflec...

nowadays, social capital plays more important role than other capitals. in absence of social capital, other capitals will lose their effectiveness and makes it difficult to reach the economic and cultural evelopment. the origin of social capital can be mainly based on social and cultural factors such as festivals. recognition of this capital and its evaluation as a kind of macro-management in t...

This paper proposes a measurement model for evaluating egovernment service quality, and generates quality indicators to assist practitioners in identifying the strong and weak points of service delivery. Our statistical sample is based on questionnaires of citizens’ preferences for the evaluation of an ideal e-government site. To accurately evaluate the influence of dimensions and criteria on s...

A major problem facing the full deployment of business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce is the development of trust on the side of the consumer. People develop trust in a business through their own previous experience with that business or through reports about that business from trusted third parties or other consumers. While a great deal of effort has been spent on privacy and secure transactions...

OBJECTIVES To explore perspectives and reported experiences of service users, community providers and policymakers related to volunteer health-worker services provision in a rural area of Myanmar. METHODS A qualitative interview study was conducted in rural communities with 54 service users and 17 community providers in Ayeyarwady Region, Myanmar, and with 14 national managers and policymaker...

BACKGROUND The association of social capital and alcohol consumption is one of the most robust empirical findings in health economics of the past decade. However, the direction of the relationship between the two is heavily dependent on which dimension of social capital is studied and which alcohol measure is used. In this paper, we examine the effect of social interactions and generalised trus...

The design of the interface for e-commerce transactions is one source of influence that can affect an online shopper’s trust in the merchant. This paper undertook a confirmatory factor analysis involving 14 trust-inducing interface design features that populated a conceptual framework proposed in our previous study. The factor analysis of self-reported ratings of the features, which were illust...