Electronic commerce (e-commerce) is changing the way people make business transactions, especially in the business-to-consumer (B2C) area, and it is becoming a significant global economic force. Since Internet technologies and infrastructures to support e-commerce are now in place, attention is turning to psychological factors that affect e-commerce acceptance by online users and their percepti...

Trust has been studied across disciplines for years, with the focus looking at trust between individuals, between individuals and organizations, and between organizations (Lee & See, 2004). Establishing trust between people has been an issue for decades (Simpson, 2011), but defining it has proved difficult as well. Within the aviation industry, there has been a lack of research exploring how tr...

Mobility leads to unplanned interactions between computer systems as people use devices to access services in varied environments. Before two systems agree to interact, they must trust that each will satisfy the security and privacy requirements of the other. In this paper we introduce trust overlays, a systematic approach to building such trust. Our solution exploits the increasing availabilit...

In this paper we extend the generic trust model that was introduced in Tan and Thoen. The model of Tan and Thoen addresses in a generic way the issues related to how to build trust for conducting a first trade transaction in electronic commerce (i.e. a trade transaction in an electronic environment between two possibly international parties who are new to each other or have not conducted trade ...

Theory and research point to different ways moral conviction and religiosity connect to trust in political authorities to decide controversial issues of the day. Specifically, we predicted that stronger moral convictions would be associated with greater distrust in authorities such as the U.S. Supreme Court making the ‘‘right’’ decisions regarding controversial issues. Conversely, we predicted ...

Trust, along with transparency, is an important indicator of a satisfactory relationship between a government and the public. Considering transparency as the key to trust in government, the purpose of this paper is to postulate a link between transparency and trust taking into account satisfaction as a psychological factor. This paper tries to find the answer of these questions: “Is there...

The interactions between people who do not know each other have been greatly increased with the on-going increase of people’s cyberspace activities. In this situation, there exist potential risk factors such as the possibility of fraud, so we need a method to reduce or eliminate those risk factors. Concerning this necessity, rating systems are widely used, and many trust metrics calculated from...

nowadays organizations should be conducted in a completely challenging environment with extraordinary changes. in such situations, managers don,t have enough time to control employees and should delegate most of their tasks to their subordinates. the employees could do the tasks delegated right only when they have enough ability and knowledge and related skiles. the empowerment process is a too...

Ever since the creation of the first human society, people have understood that the only way of sustaining and improving their societies is to rely on each other for exchanging services. This reliance have traditionally built on developing, among them, trust, a vague, intuitive to a large extend and hard to define concept that brought together people who worked towards the progress we all witne...