Trust is a key enabler of cooperative human actions. Three main deficiencies about our current knowledge of trust are addressed by this paper. First, due to widely divergent conceptual definitions of trust, the literature on trust is in a state of construct confusion. Second, too little is understood about how trust forms and on what trust is based. Third, little has been discussed about the ro...

In the context of electronic commerce (eCommerce), trust is critical to business relationship, because no transaction will take place before a buyer trusts an unknown online seller. However, little has been known about the nature of online trust. In this paper, we propose a framework to categorize the transactional contexts within which trust takes place. Based on this framework, we then review...

Knowledge sharing is common place online nowadays. Drawing from trust literature, we find trust mechanism behind knowledge sharing behavior may lead to useful implications. However, there exists a gap between theoretical and managerial perspective on the role of trust especially in online knowledge transfer. This study will try to study how technological and community factors influence trust fo...

Banks spend a great amount of money on providing the Internet banking service to customers. Hence, the lack of adoption of Internet banking can bring negative consequences for the banks. As a result, banks continuously try to adapt their business strategies to increase customer satisfaction. This paper provides an overview of the extant research into the relationships between trust and Internet...

Trust has been recognized as a key component of agent decision making in the context of multiagent systems (MASs). Though diverse trust models and mechanisms, influenced by various fields of study, have been proposed, implemented, and evaluated, we believe that the literature has ignored key aspects of pragmatic and holistic trust based reasoning. In particular, the focus of trust research has ...

Despite the scholarly interest in contracts and trust governing interorganizational relationships, an understanding of how contracts influence trust remains limited by the way in which the interaction between the two constructs is conceptualized. By bringing together recent advances in the literature on interorganizational governance, I consider (a) the controlling and the coordinating dimensio...

Studies show that trust has a significant impact on users’ motivation, acceptance and willingness for e-commerce dealings. Existing literature investigates the role of trust in ecommerce environment within the conventional space but scarcely looks into the issue JIBC December 2013, Vol. 18, No. 3 2 from the Islamic perspective. Considering that Muslim users constitute a relatively significant p...

Aims and Objectives: To report a synthesis of the literature on the meaning of trust in the context of patients’ experiences of nursing. The review question was “How do patients describe the meaning of trust in the nursing relationship?” Background: Trust is essential in nursing as it has the potential to create opportunities for the human being to gain faith, hope and meaning in life as well a...

The importance of trust for information systems research has been shown in different domains such as e-commerce, virtual communities, and generally in the adoption of new technologies. Due to its importance, a plethora of studies has identified numerous antecedents helping to build trust. However, a recent study pointed out that measurement model mis-specification questions the reliability of e...

Although trust has been given much attention in alliance literature as an explanatory factor, little research has been devoted to defining and operationalizing trust. Trust is more or less seen as a magic ingredient, poorly understood much like the concept of luck, and usually attributed ex post; successful alliances seem to involve trust; unsuccessful alliances do not. The extant literature ha...