in india, over the last decade, a series of stewardship failures in the health system, particularly in the medical profession, have led to a massive erosion of trust in these institutions. in many low- and middle-income countries (lmics), the situation is similar and has reached crisis proportions; this crisis requires urgent attention. this paper draws on the insights from the recent developme...

In the analysis of trust, we are inevitably drawn to the complex two-way interrelationships between it, the economic and political fabric of society, and the individuals who constitute that society. On the one hand we may be concerned with its role in the creation of that fabric and its psychological impact on the individual, and on the other we may be concerned with how that fabric and the pro...

the key argument of this commentary is that patient choice has a broader meaning than suggested by consumerist choice models. in increasingly marketized health care systems with diversified and knowledge-based service arrangements, patients are continuously obliged to choose insurers, physicians or hospitals and treatments—whether they like it or not. however, health care users refer to a wide ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of interpersonal and inter-organizational trust in IT outsourcing success according to the mediating role of knowledge sharing in the credit Samen institute. Method in term of purpose is applied in term of nature is descriptive and survey and in term of branch is a field. The study sample consisted of 80 individuals who are associated with th...

We investigate how public administrations can influence citizens’ continued usage of public e-services and focus on the role of different trust elements. We review prior literature and derive a model of trust transfer and continued usage. Our results show that trust in the public e-service mediates the influence of both trust in the public administration and trust in the Internet on continuance...

Short Report " Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police, " Albert Einstein (1950) once said. Indeed, interpersonal trust is an essential element of social life in general and an important determinant of cooperative behavior in particular (Pruitt & Kimmel, 1977; Yamagishi, 1986). Afte...

We present a computational model capable of predicting-above human accuracy-the degree of trust a person has toward their novel partner by observing the trust-related nonverbal cues expressed in their social interaction. We summarize our prior work, in which we identify nonverbal cues that signal untrustworthy behavior and also demonstrate the human mind's readiness to interpret those cues to a...

Several researchers have studied technology trust in terms of the technological artifact of the technology. Two different types of trusting beliefs could apply to websites. First, the trusting beliefs may relate to interpersonal characteristics such as benevolence, competence, and integrity. Second, they may relate to technology characteristics such as helpfulness, functionality, and reliabilit...

This article integrates strategic factors influencing trust with social contextual factors to create a broader understanding of interpersonal trust across organizational boundaries. In contrast to more passive models of trust development, it introduces the construct of threat-reducing behavior as an active interpersonal strategy for building and maintaining trust. Using a sample of 207 executiv...