Mobile services have rapidly become an important way for consumers to communicate, encounter services and exchange information. Marketers are increasingly using this channel for brand related advertising communications. However they have found that consumers are reluctant to try and adopt new mobile services and/or other products/services in response to advertising, unless the consumer has esta...

The extent to which people trust each other influences the performance of organizations to which they belong and the growth rates of countries in which they reside. Trust also positively impacts Internet adoption. We argue that trust levels can be increased through the use of trust enhancing mechanisms. Reputation management systems, such as ebay’s Feedback Forum, are examples of such mechanism...

Understanding the antecedents and consequences of trust in an online and on-demand outsourcing context is important. This study explores the effects of service quality on trust, which in turn affects a client firm’s post-adoption use in SaaS. A research model was developed based on the dedication-constraint framework of social exchange theory to measure service quality, trust, and SaaS post-ado...

This research tested the effects of system reliability information and interface features on human trust and reliance on individual combat ID systems. Experiment I showed that participants had difficulty in estimating the reliability of the ‘unknown’ feedback from these systems. Providing the reliability information led to appropriate reliance on that feedback. Experiment II showed that partici...

investigating sociological factors affecting job alienation this research is a study on the efficient sociological factors on job alienation across elementary school teacher of tehran. the research data was collected through a surveying method, and participants were 380 persons out of 18452 among elementary school teacher of tehran. with consideration of previous research and the theoretical fo...

The ever-changing sea state constitutes an integral part of situational awareness for vessels at sea. In this paper, a computationally efficient estimation algorithm is extended by (1) automatic gain and tolerance calculation, (2) trust measure wave filtering condition identification. resulting can run online in control system without the need user input, producing estimates parameters (signifi...

The purpose of research was identifying the relationship between social capital and performance of agricultural extension experts, Khouzestan province, Iran. The method of research was a descriptive-correlative. The sample size was agricultural extension experts (n=98). A five-point Likert-type scale was used as instrument to gather data in order to measure the social capital. Data were analyze...

This paper aimed at examining the role of various interactive technologies in aiding Electronic Customer Knowledge Management Systems (E-CKMS). The development of E-CKMS encounters several challenges including trust and knowledge hoarding, and comparative studies that evaluate the potential of interactive technologies are lacking. Therefore, an investigation was carried out to uncover this pote...