Drawing on the existing theoretical literature, a conceptual model of trust is developed. The model suggests that trust in technology, institutional trust, and social trust are three dimensions of the overarching trust construct that should be considered in models of technology acceptance. The preliminary empirical evidence suggests that institutional trust and social trust are important factor...

Ecocentric management has grown in interest business sustainability research, driven by recent debates on sustainability-as-flourishing and novel nature-based approaches. While relevant promising, examination explanations remain anchored conventional dualistic thinking piecemeal logics. In this article, we seek to understand what conditions or combination of enable the formation ecocentrism man...

causative constructions play an important role in the mental and linguistic system of human beings. the methodology that is used in this paper for studying causative constructions in persian is the combination of the morphology-based approach and song’s model (1996, 2001). emphasizing the causer np and the causee np, we draw the semantic map of the causer np (based on the animacy hierarchy). in...

To better understand how drawings are used in design, this chapter and the next one describe controlled protocol studies of designers conducted by the author. Specifically, these chapters attempt to answer two questions: 1) What different activities and drawings consistently appear in the conceptual stages of design? and 2) How are symbols and drawing conventions associated with different desig...