Online trust systems are playing an important role in to-days world and face various challenges in building them. Billions of dollars of products and services are traded through electronic commerce, files are shared among large peer-to-peer networks and smart contracts can potentially replace paper contracts with digital contracts. These systems rely on trust mechanisms in peer-to-peer networks...

One of the major issues involved in establishing new trading relationships is the lack of an a priori trust relationship between the parties. Without a solution of this trust problem it is virtually impossible to establish new trade relationships. This is an old and well-known problem in international trade. One way to create the necessary trust is by using trade procedures that involve exchang...

Consumer trust is widely heralded as an essential element for the success of electronic commerce, yet the concept itself is still clouded in confusion by the numerous definitions and points of view held across multiple disciplines. It is the aim of this paper to synthesise the viewpoints from across the disciplines and bring them together in a multidimensional trust model. It is hoped that in d...

Trust management has received a lot of attention recently as it is an important component of decision making for electronic commerce, Internet interactions and electronic contract negotiation. However, appropriate tools are needed to effectively specify and manage trust relationships. They should facilitate the analysis of trust specification for conflicts and should enable information on risk ...

Over more than a decade, IS research has examined the role of trust in the context of technology adoption such as website acceptance (Gefen et al. 2003), successful online interactions (Coppola et al. 2004) and recommendation agents usage (Wang and Benbasat 2005). The primary antecedent of trust in the line of research is often trustee’s trustworthiness. However, Dashiti et al. (2011) articulat...

Privacy invasion, surveillance and profiling are some identified vulnerabilities as a consequence of trusting context-aware technologies such as smart-phones. With PC-enabled e-commerce transactions, the technological ecosystem was smaller with a corresponding simpler chain of trust. Context-aware technologies such as smart-phones are increasingly being used in initiating and completing commerc...

The aim of this study is to examine the impact of culture on the trust determinants in e-commerce. The study adopts two broad trust building foundations (cognitionand affect-based trust) from cross-culture literature, focuses on one wellestablished cultural construct (i.e., individualism-collectivism) as groups of culture, develops a theoretical model of cognition-based versus affect-based e-Ve...

This study presents a cross-national examination of e-government adoption in the United Kingdom and the United States. The results of partial least squares analysis indicate that disposition to trust is positively related to internet trust and government trust. Perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness have a significant impact on intention to use. Internet trust has a positive effect on i...

Several researchers have studied trust in the electronic commerce context. Much of this work is aimed at establishing initial trust, with some recent research on maintaining on-going trust between consumer and vendor. This paper examines a related aspect of trust in the e-Commerce environment, namely trust violations and their subsequent repair. It draws upon research in professional trust rela...

User perceptions of trust in a Business to Consumer (B2C) electronic commerce website could influence its adoption and subsequent use. Prior research has examined various techniques for enhancing user trust in e-commerce websites. This study examines the role of typography and typefaces in influencing user perceptions of trust. Typefaces are viewed as possessing distinct personalities. When use...