in the present study, a number of iranian it professionals and electronic commerce managers are surveyed in order to investigate their viewpoints about the level of importance for determinant factors affecting the generation of trust among the internet consumers. to accomplish this, a model, which is adopted from the existing models in the e-trust literature, is offered to represent the crucial...

Charitable giving is one of the essential tasks of a properly functioning civil society. This task is greatly complicated by the lack of organizational transparency and by the information asymmetries that often exist between organizations and donors in the market for charitable donations. The disclosure of financial, performance, donor-relations, and fundraising-related data is thus an importan...

Electronic transactions are of increasing use due to its openness and continuous availability. The rapid growth of information and communication technologies has helped the expansion of these electronic transactions, however, issues related to security and trust are yet limiting its action space, mainly in what concerns business to business activity. This paper introduces an Electronic Institut...

Laws have been used to deal with theoretical and practical issues regarding notions of openness and unpredictably of open multiagent systems. In order to achieve a higher degree of predictability and confidence, practical applications of distributed agents need to describe the interaction structure of the system, and this interaction structure must be regulated. Governing agent interactions can...

This research seeks to map out the expressions of Banyumas Muslim community in responding dynamics state problems post-reformation with Big Five theory (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neurotism). not only maps potential involvement Islamic civil society, but also contributes an important perspective as effort stabilize society its various social groups. The method...

Trust, along with transparency, is an important indicator of a satisfactory relationship between a government and the public. Considering transparency as the key to trust in government, the purpose of this paper is to postulate a link between transparency and trust taking into account satisfaction as a psychological factor. This paper tries to find the answer of these questions: “Is there...

Social trust is an important component of social development and modern development that has special significance in social science debate today. One of the main factors of social trust is the trust in organizations that are considered as institutional trust in social researches. This type of trust is analyzed in the present study and it has been tried to determine this kind of trust in the soc...

the purpose of performing this research was studying relationship of religious orientation and interpersonal trust with educational progress of students. the research was descriptive correlation one.statistical population included all highschool students of birjand city in educational year 93-94 ,which was based on morgan table and random cluster method ,355 samples was chosen and studied. to g...

Recent findings in cognitive science suggest that the epistemic subject is more complex and epistemically porous than is generally pictured. Human knowers are open to the world via multiple channels, each operating for particular purposes and according to its own logic. These findings need to be understood and addressed by the philosophical community. The current essay argues that one consequen...

In this paper we investigate under which conditions the composition of two set-valued maps enjoys the linear openness property. To obtain our results, we use the Nadler’s fixed point theorem, and Lim’s lemma which provides an estimate for the distance between the sets of fixed points of two (set-valued) contractions. As an application, we obtain the Lipschitz property of the implicit solution m...