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...

The use of reputation systems has been proposed for various applications, e. g., to estimate the trustworthiness of sellers and buyers in electronic transactions. Reputation systems collect opinions of users about properties of certain services, subjects and other users and evaluate these opinions. It is important that the results of reputation systems are consistent with intuitive expectations...

relations has largely been overlooked in the burgeoning literature on trust in the social sciences (Cook 2001; Hardin 2002); yet it is central to understanding how trust develops. In the absence of monitoring and the sanctioning of opportunistic behavior, trusting always involves some risk.1 We define trust building as the process through which social interaction opportunities involving risk ar...

these days, due to growing the e-commerce sites, access to information about items is easier than past. but because of huge amount of information, we need new filtering techniques to find interested information faster and more accurate. therefore recommender systems (rs) introduced for solving this problem. although several recommender approaches have proposed, collaborative filtering (cf) appr...

The emergence of inter-organizational system has facilitated easy and fast flow of information among the trading partners. This has affected the business relations among the trading parties involved. Though the inter-organizational systems have helped a lot in improving the business relations, the vulnerability and the virtual environment of such systems raise the issues of trust that may affec...

the purpose of this paper was to measure the social capital of the medical students of mashhad medical sciences university in the place they lived (their neighborhood), and the factors affecting it. the statistical universe was the university with a total of 5383 students. the sample was 244. the sampling was done using the systematic classification method, the classes being the faculty and sex...

While trust is seen as central to most social relations, most writers, including sociologists of science, assume that modern trust relations--especially those in regulatory relationships - tend towards the impersonal. Drawing on ethnographic material from one kind of scientific oversight body--research ethics committees based in the UK NHS--this paper argues that interpersonal trust is crucial ...

This article introduces the special issue on New Perspectives on the Trust-Control Nexus in Organizational Relations. Trust and control are interlinked processes commonly seen as key to reach effectiveness in interand intra-organizational relations. The relation between trust and control is, however, a complex one, and research into this relation has given rise to various and contradictory inte...