Institutional IS research focuses on explaining IS adoption depending on its alignment with a set of coherent institutional pressures. In contrast, institutional logics research emphasises the institutional complex and contested nature of most organisational contexts where multiple and often divergent institutional logics interact to shape organisational action. Adopting an institutional logic ...

Information retrieved from open distributed systems can be of uncertain reliability and sifting through a large amount of data can be a complex procedure. In real life, we handle such problems through the social mechanisms of trust and word-of-mouth, or reputation. We propose a sociologically motivated trust and reputation model for the problem of reliable information retrieval and present an e...