The value decline in the EU has manyfold consequences. It jeopardizes very essence of Europe as a community values. At same time it endangers legal principles, such mutual recognition, which is based on trust presuming that all Member States are rule law and protect fundamental rights. Once rebutted, States' judicial authorities will refuse to cooperate recognise each other's judgments order no...

In this behavioral observation study, the authors tested predictions derived from various trust models concerning how individuals who are high vs. low in chronic trust perceive and behave during strain-test discussions with their romantic partners. Partners in 92 married/cohabitating couples identified and discussed 2 major strain-test issues in their relationship. Each partner (when in the rol...

Mutual trust is essential in performing economical transactions. In modern internet-based businesses, however, traditional trust gaining mechanisms cannot be used and new ways to build trust between e-business partners have to be found. In consequence, a lot of models describing trust and the mechanisms to build it were developed. Unfortunately, most of these models neither provide the right fo...

As the investment in outsourcing continues to grow, both service provider and receiver face an increasing pressure to exhibit the value of outsourcing. Improving the quality of a relationship between service provider and receiver has frequently been suggested as the best way to meet this challenge. Recent studies stress that the most critical time for a successful interorganizational relationsh...

0140-3664/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2008.07.014 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +4142885222. E-mail address: [email protected] (S.I. Aham To cope with the challenges posed by device capacity and capability, and also the nature of ad hoc networks, a Service discovery model is needed that can resolve security and privacy issues with simple solutions. The use of...

Interorganizational coordination (IOC) is a critical part of planning, because planning mostly involves multiple organizational interactions. Investment and employment are considered as multi-dimensional and multi-sectional challenges that the management of them requires intersectional and interorganizational cooperation. The goal of this research is the investigation of the interorganizational...