Management of public lands occurs today with high levels of scrutiny and controversy. To succeed, managers seek the support, involvement, and endorsement of the public. This study examines trust as an indicator of managerial success and attempts to identify and measure the components that most influence it. A review of trust literature yielded 14 attributes that were hypothesized to contribute ...

The purpose of the study is to integrate patient trust with the Technology Acceptance Model in order to explore the usage intention model of Telecare systems. The proposed framework is validated with 365 respondents from Nantou County, which is located in Taiwan. The findings show that patient trust (social trust and institutional trust) has significantly positive effects on the perceived ease ...

We study the effect of ownership structure on executive pay and succession in Japanese corporations. We find differences in the effects of domestic and foreign ownership that are based on the nature of owners' relationships with mana gers. Foreign ownership reduces executive pay and enhances the likelihood of executive succession when firms underperform. Domestic ownership has no effect. Our re...

Towards a different view of middle managers and their roles in strategic decentralisation processes-(7350 words) Summary Middle managers have often been blamed for being inflexible status quo defenders in organisational change processes. However, research results reported in this paper, drawn from in-depth case studies of company restructuring in Germany during the nineties, suggests that middl...

Many of the various forms of cooperative strategy that firms are pursuing in today’s economy entail the placing of important business functions in the hands of a partner. This paper examines the role of trust in the decision by a producer to place the marketing function in the hands of another entity, namely a cooperative. Although others have studied the effect of what may be termed general tr...

This study attempts to examine the antecedents and outcomes of e-trust in online auctions. Antecedents, technical and social bonds, and outcomes of e-trust were chosen in order to apply the concepts of relationship marketing to electronic commerce and to further develop this conceptual model in the context of online auctions by incorporating these factors into one model. A case has been made th...

Users’ recommendation intention has drawn greater intention by both scholars and managers under the context of electronic commerce. Based on TAM (Technology Acceptance Model), this study aims to examine factors affecting users’ recommendation intention of Taxi-hailing apps in Chinese context. Structural equation model is used in this study. Data collected from 261 Taxi-hailing apps users. The r...