Certification vs. Credibility in the Presence of Soft Information∗

Disclosure of Hard vs. Soft Information

This paper studies voluntary disclosure when (a) there is uncertainty about managerial propensity to report truthfully, (b) some components of the firm’s value may be certified for a cost (“hard”), (c) other components may be disclosed but not certified free of misstatements (“soft”). We establish that untruthful managers are more likely to certify hard information and that, among truthful mana...

Do Credibility Cues Affect the Persuasiveness of a Web Site ?

Previous studies have demonstrated that varying these cues can affect how user's rate online health information [4], [5]. To date however there has only been one study that investigated whether the presence/absence of these cues affected the persuasiveness of a health website [6]. The outcome measure of this study (N=85) was self reported alcohol consumption; the cues investigated included adve...

The Sustainable Forestry Initiative vs. The Forest Stewardship Council: Evaluating the Credibility of Competing Forest Certification Schemes

باورپذیری اطلاعات: از آغاز تا عصر دیجیتال

Purpose: the present paper aims to describe the history, dimensions, and research and application areas of information credibility especially in the web information environment. Methodology: reviewing related literature in communication, sociology, information science and computer science. Findings: credibility is a multidimensional and expansive concept for which an agreement has not been re...

Simultaneous Detection of Arabis Mosaic Virus, Cherry Leafroll Virus and Cucumber Mosaic Virus with Coamplification of Plant mRNA as Internal Control for Olive Certification Programs

Background and Aims: Certification programs of plant propagating materials rely on faster, cheaper and more importantly sensitive and reliable methods for detection of systemic pathogens as indicated in national and/or international health standards of plant propagating materials. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) has been documented as an alternative assay for certific...