Decision Making Using Trust and Risk in Self-Adaptive Agent Organization

Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the factors of formation and consequences of collective trust in schools. Methodology: The present study was conducted using a qualitative method using data foundation theory. The statistical population included education professionals and knowledge-based companies. The research sample consisted of 12 experts and experts in the field of education ...

This technical report classifies and compares the trust management approaches and the relevant trust models proposed by the literature and especially targeted at distributed environments. The report identifies the requirements of a distributed trust model for the NeP4B cooperative and competitive scenario. After this analysis, an initial design of the NeP4B trust model is proposed, with a speci...

Purpose – The aim of this paper was to investigate the role of perceived organizational support (POS) for employee risk-taking through its association with greater trust among supervisors and subordinates that the organization will take into account the individual’s intent to be helpful in the case of failure (failure-related trust). Design/methodology/approach – Data were obtained from 346 emp...

The possibility of resolving the tension between trust as a psychological condition and trust as a general organizing principle depends on assumptions about the convergence of expressed and perceived trust relations. In empirical organizational research these assumptions are frequently left implicit and only rarely modeled directly. Using data that we have collected on trust relations within th...

Many researchers observe that trust is of importance in online transactions. Most of them have focussed on the trust a buyer has in a seller. In an online C2C auction market, such as eBay, trust in the organization that facilitates the auction is an additional trust relationship that is of importance for the outcome of the transactions. Here we investigate which types of trust relationships are...

While trust is widely acknowledged as to be important for the efficient operation of interorganizational business arrangements, the formation of trust remains challenging. In this paper we discuss the trust building potential of inter-firm coordination roles as organizational means in virtual organizations. Thus, we introduce the coordination role concept and proceed by defining three different...

The concept of trust has become popular in public debate and academic analysis. In high income countries this interest is associated with concern for the decline of trust in governments and professionals, and in developing countries has been prompted by debates around the motion of social capital. Trust has been identified as a major factor influencing such things as capital investment, relatio...