This paper focuses mainly on social aspects concerning trust and network, especially in higher education institutions. Trust plays a crucial role as social capital and is an important factor of social order, especially in countries in transition. The hypothesis that low trust is one major problem of entrepreneurship will be examined. In low-trust environments, trust is abused as soon as it is p...

BACKGROUND Diabetes requires significant alterations to lifestyle and completion of self management tasks to obtain good control of disease. The objective of this study was to determine if patient trust is associated with reduced difficulty and hassles in altering lifestyle and completing self care tasks. METHODS A cross-sectional telephone survey and medical record review was performed to me...

this research aims at defining effective causes of trust andsurveying trust effect on innovation enhancement in iran and tehrandistrict, through a case study of pardis science and technology park.this research concentrates on systems thinking approach. researchsample was based on 105 people located in the mentioned area with64 sample. data was analyzed with spss and lisrel software in orderto e...

social capital has received considerable attention in all branches of social sciences, and has recently been the focus in the field to explain about procreator elements. trust is one of the social capital elements and plays an important role in specifying consequences incidental to social capital. nearly two decades ago, robert putnam proposed an explanation of trust relying on associational li...

We present a novel component-based approach to hardware/software co-verification of embedded systems using model checking. Embedded systems are pervasive and often mission-critical, therefore, they must be highly trustworthy. Trustworthy embedded systems require extensive verification. The close interactions between hardware and software of embedded systems demand co-verification. Due to their ...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the institutional economics of co-operation and the political economy of trust. It is reviewed the transactions costs, the principal-agent theory, market power, increasing-returns theory and value creation, strategic management, competitive forces, resource-based theory, organizational knowledge and learning, strategic choice theory and the collective efficie...

We argue that a general theory of trust in networks of humans and computers must be build on both a theory of behavioral trust and a theory of computational trust. This argument is motivated by increased participation of people in social networking, crowdsourcing, human computation, and socio-economic protocols, e.g., protocols modeled by trust and gift-exchange games [3, 10, 11], norms-establi...

social capital is one of the most important criteria related to social network resilience. in trust networks as the most important factor of social capital in adaptive governance, sensitivity to disorders and irregularities is considerable and resiliency improvement and compatibility capacity depends on trust level in network. this research is applied in zangooi village, south khorasan province...

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...

this study adopted a survey research strategy to examine the impact of servant leadership and its dimensions on team effectiveness and trust in teams. the servant leadership, a new model of leadership, in recent years has been an area of interest to researchers and administrative staff. furthermore, institutions of higher education in the third millennium, need to maintain and increase the reli...