Firm organization is affected by structural characteristics of the firm’s environment such as competition. However, successful informal delegation to a manager by a CEO will depend on the ability to sustain co-operation in a repeated game: the co-operative equilibrium will be more easily sustained if the parties have greater trust. To explore this hypothesis we use an innovative survey tool to ...

Health systems are inherently relational and so many of the most critical challenges for health systems are relationship and behaviour problems. Yet the disciplinary perspectives that underlie traditional health policy analysis offer only limited and partial insights into human behaviour and relationships. The health sector, therefore, has much to learn from the wider literature on behaviour an...

This version: May 2002 Abstract: From a public database in Sweden we obtained a subject pool consisting of one group 20 years old and another group that was exactly 50 years older. The groups participated in a mail-based trust game. In the trust game the young cohort exhibited significantly more trust than the old cohort did. Furthermore, subjects preferred to place trust in co-players of their...

In this workshop paper, we examined how non-equivalent communication technologies impact on trust in partially distributed conceptual design teams. To incorporate the uniqueness of partially distributed team setting, we distinguished trust into two categories, which were trust towards distant partners (distant trust) and trust towards colocated partners (co-located trust). Findings revealed tha...

Co-hosted by the Dutch Ministry of Education, The Hague University of Applied Sciences and the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), this one-day seminar brought together state of the art research with country experiences and examples of building, maintaining, and restoring trust in education. The main themes included the challenges for today’s education systems arising ...

trust is one of the most important factors for the development of electronic banking. the purpose of this study is to determine effective factors on trust in e-banking in the form of a conceptual model. due to the rapid growth of electronic banking in the country, identify factors affecting trust in e-banking is very important. population of this study is customers of bank melli in urmia. we us...

This report summarizes the findings of a working group on ”Uncertainty and Trust” which met during Dagstuhl Seminar 08421 ”Uncertainty Management in Information Systems”. All participants of the working group are co-authors of this report. The aim of the working group was to analyse the relationship between trust and uncertainty in distributed reputation systems. We started by identifying sourc...

This paper addresses a specific problem that may arise as consequence of the globalization of the markets. This is the incompatibility between local and global standards of trust. The literature highlights the advantage of co-localization for the production of mutual trust. However, the type of trust produced may be informal and indeed largely incompatible with base of trust in open electronic ...

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 any s...