Endorsing performance measures is a matter of trust

A matter of trust.

W do you have to gain if your customers trust you? Recent thinking suggests that “corporate believability” and consumer expectations of company behaviour have changed dramatically – and that businesses today can’t ignore the change in mindset. The U.K.based communications consultancy Corporate Culture, for example, conducted a “belief analysis” among thousands of consumers last year and identif...

Consent to publish is a matter of trust.

The IJTMB is endorsing the CARE Statement

The value of writing and of publishing case reports in a profession has long been recognized; multiple articles explain the importance of case studies, (1,2) and how to do them. (3-6) However, having recommendations to publish case reports and in what to include in those reports doesn't automatically result in either a uniform approach to published reports, or inclusion of all appropriate or ne...

A Matter of Trust: Networks and Entrepreneurs

This paper discusses elements of inter-entrepreneurial trust in regional networks and clusters in terms of influencing business processes and economic viability in today’s economy. The message that can be extracted from the literature is that competitive advantage strongly depends on interfirm collaboration and that networks with a high degree of trust lead to entrepreneurship and innovation. T...

Trust measures for competitive agents

The role of trust measures is particularly relevant in competitive multi-agent systems. Recent studies highlight the importance of correctly balancing direct measures, as the reliability, and indirect measures, as the reputation. The key problem is that an agent may have an insufficient direct knowledge of another agent, showing the necessity of using a reputation measure, computed using some “...