F.R.C.S., and W. A. rrost, F.R.C.S. London: Cassell & Co. 1887. The book before us well maintains the excellent reputation of The Clinical Manuals for Practitioners and Students of Medicine. Our authors are well-known ophthalmic surgeons, thoroughly competent to write upon their speciality, both from large practical experience and from wide literary knowledge of it. This volume is very readable...

The way corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication relates to reputation has attracted an increasing amount of attention from and business researchers practitioners. To place our study in the context CSR employee communication, we proposed a communication—motives—organizational identification—corporate model. Data collected online Qualtrics survey (n = 811) supported all hypotheses lin...

This study investigates how corporate governance affects the financial reporting quality of selected banks in Iraq, focusing on role IFRS adoption. The research collected data from 298 questionnaires distributed among diverse private banks, including IS Bank, Vakif RT Cihan Bank and TD Bank. Sobel analysis was used to analyze mediation between variables. results demonstrate that adoption plays ...

Parties of reputation systems rate each other and use ratings to compute reputation scores that drive their interactions. When deciding which reputation model to deploy in a network environment, it is important to find the most suitable model and to determine its right initial configuration. This calls for an engineering approach for describing, implementing and evaluating reputation systems wh...

A reputation protocol computes the reputation of an entity by aggregating the feedback provided by other entities in the system. Reputation makes entities accountable for their behavior. Honest feedback is clearly a pre-requisite for accurate reputation scores. However, it has been observed that entities often hesitate in providing honest feedback, mainly due to the fear of retaliation. We pres...

The current design of BGP implicitly assumes the existence of trust between ASes with respect to exchanging valid BGP updates. This assumption of complete trust is problematic given the frequent announcement of invalid — inaccurate or unnecessary — updates. This paper presents AS-CRED, a reputation service for ASes which quantifies the level of trust one can have with respect to its announcing ...

In this paper we provide experimental evidence for the importance of reputation in markets with experience goods. In this type of markets high quality cannot be enforced by complete and enforceable contracts. This leads to low efficiency or even the breakdown of markets. A potential remedy to overcome these inefficiencies is reputation formation. In order to study the causal effect of reputatio...

M recommendation and decision processes depend on eliciting evaluations of opportunities, products, and vendors. A scoring system is devised that induces honest reporting of feedback. Each rater merely reports a signal, and the system applies proper scoring rules to the implied posterior beliefs about another rater’s report. Honest reporting proves to be a Nash equilibrium. The scoring schemes ...