It has been widely accepted that distrust is qualitatively different from trust. Yet scholarly knowledge about the antecedents of distrust is scarce, while the antecedents of trust have received extensive attention. Furthermore, little empirical research has explored how website factors impact on the formation of distrust in a user. Drawing upon the review of distrust literature and competence-...

Significant work has been initiated on trust in ecommerce settings, but little research has addressed distrust. Because of its connection to the insecurities that are found in risky situations, disposition to distrust is particularly suited to addressing issues of high risk, while disposition to trust is better suited for low risk issues. High risk issues include: a) perceptions that the Web is...

Trust and distrust are both considered to be crucial in online truster–trustee relationships. Although some research has proposed that trust and distrust are distinct, other research continues to hold that they are merely opposite ends of the same continuum. Given this debate, it is important to consider how distrust is distinguished from trust. To that end, this paper extends the nomological n...

Organizational transformation for digitalization is a daily challenge organizations. Successful change can be defined as the combined result of number factors, in which attitude, trust and/or distrust employees towards technology paramount importance. The aim this study was to explore factors most influence employees’ and how risk they pose mitigated. quantitative research analyzed 473 responde...

While trust is increasingly recognized as a factor that impacts on safety behavior, the exact nature of trust and its role in shaping organizational safety is poorly understood. This special issue contains six articles that examine the relationship between trust and safety behavior in a range of high-risk work contexts. The issue begins with two articles that introduce the complex nature of tru...

Trust and distrust are two increasingly important metrics in social networks. Since many of these networks are very large, it is only natural that not all users know each other. To this aim, propagation and aggregation operators are often used to estimate (dis)trust relations for users that are not directly connected through the network. In this paper, we introduce bilattice-based aggregation a...

leadership is important for nurturing employee creativity. although how leaders can influence employee creativity is somehow unclear, previous studies show that leadership can enhance employees’ willingness to share knowledge. this study examines how leader-member exchange (lmx) affects employees’ creative work involvement through knowledge sharing. data (n=385) was collected utilizing a questi...