This paper proposes a multi-agent architecture and a trust model with which to foster the reuse of information in organizations which use knowledge bases or knowledge management systems. The architecture and the model have been designed with the goal of giving support to communities of practices which are a means of sharing knowledge. However, members of these communities are currently often ge...

Relationship marketing typically requires organizations to continually collect customer information. Two distinct approaches co-exist to encourage customers to disclose information: reducing privacy concern and building trust, which in the past have been examined in isolation. In the present study, Regulatory Focus Theory was used to integrate both approaches and examine their distinct response...

These day, supply chains (SCs) have become more and more complicated and have extensively expanded and due to these complexities, the supply chain management (SCM) has encountered several uncertainties, and, as a result, trust and assurance between members in SCs has become essential for a successful SCM. Although trust is an inevitable component in nearly all fields in SCs, like cooperation, c...

The National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) released new fluid guidelines following data suggesting 20% of patients receiving fluids suffer adversely (2013). This quality improvement group assessed fluid prescribing in a tertiary teaching centre and introduced a new fluid- prescribing chart to align practice with NICE recommendations. Notes and corresponding fluid prescription charts w...

Global software development has become an extremely important issue for organizations at present in the climate of increasing tendency towards globalization and global outsourcing. A number of studies have been conducted which have identified a set of problematic areas which are common across projects, including language and cultural differences, trust factors, communication across temporal and...

Job satisfaction is of great importance to employees, because sometimes due to the lack of trust in the organization and the lack of job satisfaction, employees are looking to leave the organization and seek a different job. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between organizational trust and job satisfaction of employees of the Agricultural Bank. The research applied in ter...

today, e-commerce has considerable portion in commercial businesses, and it has been developing. one of the most important steps in e-commerce is e-payment that has been done through different tools such as e-banking, and e-cheques. in this type of electronic transactions, there are always different worries both for payers and payees due to untruthfulness. for example, amount modifying, date mo...

Centre for Genomics and Child Health, Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, 4 Newark Street, London E1 2AT, UK Stem Cell Laboratory, National Bowel Research Centre, Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, 2 Newark Street, London E1 2AT, UK Wellcome Trust Sanger...