Trust remains one fundamental challenge that is holding back the success of mas. Although the available literature is rich with trust mechanisms and strategies, the notion of trust remains a vague notion. In this paper we try to bring these trust theories to a concrete level. We present a mechanism for specifying and verifying the various trust strategies and mechanisms of the available literat...

Despite its important role in interpersonal interactions, narcissism has rarely been examined in the context of negotiations in which individuals cooperate and compete with their counterpart. As negotiations occur frequently in daily life, empirical findings of the role of narcissism in negotiation settings can enhance the understanding of the functions of narcissism in common situations in whi...

Due to concerns about data security and privacy and the lack of trust, many individuals and organizations are reluctant to use cloud services. Thus, gaining users’ trust in cloud computing is considered as a challenge faced by cloud providers. Previous studies in the field of trust and cloud computing mainly focus on technical aspects such as improving security. While this is important, trust i...

Despite being relatively new in mathematics education research, qualitative researchapproaches need special attention as attempts are being made to enhance the credibility and trustworthiness of this approach. It is important that researchers are aware of the limitations associated with these methods so that measures are put in place to try and minimize the effects of these limitations Philosop...

In a dynamic network, cyber physical devices collect and share data by opportunistically connecting with each other. By their very nature, computations in dynamic networks may be distributed among several untrusted devices, some of which may be malicious in intent. It is therefore key to have mechanisms that allow one device to establish the trustworthiness of another device in the dynamic netw...

We apply an organizational embeddedness perspective to examine international assignees’ retention with the organization. Specifically, we hypothesize that assignees’ social ties within and their perceived fit with the host unit positively relate to two sacrifices with leaving the organization: their firmspecific learning during the assignment and their perceived career prospects in the organiza...

Internet of Things (IoT) is going to create a world where physical objects are seamlessly integrated into information networks in order to provide advanced and intelligent services for human-beings. Trust management plays an important role in IoT for reliable data fusion and mining, qualified services with context-awareness, and enhanced user privacy and information security. It helps people ov...