During the last years it has become recognized that trust is an essential component in the design of protocols in distributed systems If for example a Key Distribution Center KDC is employed to distribute public keys the receiver of such a key has to trust the KDC that the key is authentic Sometimes a trusted entity may recommend another entity as being trustworthy which in turn can recommend f...

The objective of this paper is to test the influence of individual factors on employee participation in decision making (PDM) among Malaysian middle and top level managers in the private sector. The individual factors involved are trust, demographic similarities and idiocentrism-allocentrism. Leader-member exchange (LMX) is included as a moderating variable for the individual factor – PDM relat...

BACKGROUND To examine the association between individual-level social capital and physical activity. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS In February 2009, data were collected in a population-based cross-sectional survey in Okayama city, Japan. A cluster-sampling approach was used to randomly select 4,000 residents from 20 school districts. A total of 2260 questionnaires were returned (response rat...

As the positive impact of trust on business success is widely undisputed, the question of how to measure trust naturally arises. Both expectations of trustworthy behavior and possible gains and losses from a trusting relationship influence the level of trust between two parties or individuals. This paper explores whether an exchange featuring (almost) equal expected gains and expected losses fo...

Trust investigation in B2C E-commerce is usually based on analyzing relative compositions of B2C E-commerce, and mainly focuses on direct perceived trust of consumers. But in real B2C E-commerce, recommended trust of mature consumer is an important channel to enhance trust for a new consumer. A recommended trust evaluation method in B2C E-commerce is proposed based on fuzzy analytic hierarchy p...

There is a general consensus among contemporary social scientists that social trust is important, as the small flood of recent publications on the topic shows. 1 The interest in trust covers, unusually in the increasingly ABSTRACT: This article identifies six main theories of the determinants of social trust, and tests them against survey data from seven societies, 1999– 2001. Three of the six ...

This paper examines the influence of college education on social trust at the individual level. Based on the literature of trust and social trust, we hypothesize that life experience/development since adulthood and perceptions of cultural/social structures are two primary channels in the causal linkage between college education and social trust. In the first part of the empirical study economet...

Retaining your customers is important for E-sellers to survive in the intensified competitive e-marketplace. We approach this issue from the perspective of “continuance intention”, a behavior intention that describes the willingness of customers to continue transacting with sellers. Drawing upon the trust-commitment theory, as well as institution-based trust factors, we examine two types of tru...

Automated support of design teams, consisting of both human and automated systems, requires an understanding of the role of trust in distributed design processes. By explicitating trust, an individual designer’s decisions become better understood and may be better supported. Each individual designer has his or her private goals in a co-operative design setting, in which requirement conflicts an...