The effective smoothening factor in different forms of collaboration has proven to be getting trustworthy partner organizations. Nowadays, trust among the 21st century organizations should be analyzed and assessed with a look from a different angle than how it has been conceptualized and addressed for such organizations in the past. In the past as it has been commonly practiced, the concept of ...

Trust is a broad and multidimensional concept that has been widely studied in many disciplines, such as psychology, sociology, and management. In addition to interpersonal relations trust also plays a significant role when technology acceptance is concerned. Information technology (IT) is not an exception but there is a growing interest for understanding the mechanisms of trust formation as wel...

Digital environments have generated tremendous benefits for various entities. Individuals and organizations have utilized these environments for performing transactions, sharing information, and engaging in collaboration. However, the benefits that digital environments offer also attract a number of dishonest entities. These entities perform malicious activities that further disadvantage other ...

This paper proposes a theoretical model incorporating information privacy concerns and consumers’ options and rights as the two antecedents for trust in an organization. We posit that by providing the users with choice and access to the information collected about them, an organization can help reduce the tensions that arise due to consumer’s information privacy concerns while increasing the tr...

Increased connectivity and data availability enable new ways of conducting business, but they also create new security vulnerabilities. For example, to streamline a financial transaction, an organization might want to give certain strangers — that is, parties from outside its security domain — access to some of its local resources. Before doing so, however, the organization must establish firm ...

In today's business environment, competitive advantage increasingly requires the open sharing of knowledge by organizational members [22]. Although the practitioners place emphasis on the importance of knowledge sharing, empirical researches on knowledge sharing are still limited, and little research has been done to understand the factors that influence knowledge sharing in organizations. This...

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