:Studying the inter-play between social capital and corruption aversion in a context subject to institutional dysfunctions like Palestinian Territories may help understand mechanisms of governance legitimacy. By using unique survey conducted 2007 Territories, we find that increases with civic spirits is lower among individuals involved voluntary activities. Furthermore, increase trust importanc...

Purpose – Most theory and empirical research on the impact of e-government on citizens’ trust in government remains at the macro-level and misses out on the complexities of the interaction between e-services and citizens’ trust in government. The purpose of this paper is to provide a deeper understanding of this complexity. Design/methodology/approach – The research strategy is a comparative ca...

This paper investigates the implications of interorganizational-trust for the performance of exchange relationships and considers the role of varying antecedents of trust on this performance. It develops a theory of the relationship between exchange performance and two distinct sources of interorganizational-trust—trust arising out of past interactions or the institutional environment that exis...

Private-order market institutions founded on trust-based relational contracts suffer adverse selection and moral hazard problems, while public-order market institutions have a limited capacity to enforce contracts. We model agent selection between contract enforcement institutions and demonstrate that the state’s contract enforcement capacity is complementary to private-order contract enforceme...

What does the US public believe about the credibility of institutional actors when it comes to protecting information privacy online? Drawing on perspectives of environmental risk, this article addresses the question through a nationally representative telephone survey of 1200 adults who go online at home. A key result is that a substantial percentage of internet users believes that major corpo...

In this study we investigate the performance of investment trust new issues during their first 750 days of trading. Research on the initial performance of new issues has documented that abnormal returns are obtained during the first day of trading. We compare the performance of investment trust new issues with the performance of size and style-based matching investment trusts taking the multina...

Currently, the cloud computing is hot research both in scholars and enterprise, because of its good features such as low investment, easy maintenance, flexibility and fast deployment, reliable service. But to truly implement cloud computing, we need to gradually improve it in academic, legal and institutional. Especially, the issue of trust is one of the biggest obstacles for the development of...