In successful supply chain collaborations, effective communication and the development of inter-organizational trust are a key factor. The purpose of these literature review paper is to initially review the previous literature on the relationship between the adoption of e-collaboration technology and factors influencing the development of trust in supply chain collaborations. This study is impo...

The paper explores conceptually the relationship between trust and deception. The author advances five main propositions, which concern deceptive signals of trustworthiness, the suspension of uncertainty in trust, the moral implications of trusting and deceiving, the trustor’s self-deception, and the reversibility of trust. The overall conclusion is that trust and deception both enable and prev...

The trust network is a social network where nodes are inter-linked by their trust relations. It has been widely used in various applications, however, little is known about its structure due to its highly dynamic nature. Based on five trust networks obtained from the real online sites, we contribute to verify that the trust network is the small-world network: the nodes are highly clustered, whi...

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

Successful e-commerce user experience design depends on a large number of factors. This paper focuses on consumers’ acceptance of and trust in an e-commerce system, based on the transaction’s value and perceived risk. The model of trust for ecommerce (MoTEC) by Egger (2000) provides a framework making explicit factors likely to affect customer trust. For each model component, design principles ...