Reputation is an important means to establish trust in decentralized environments such as the Semantic Web. In reputation-based trust management, an entity’s reputation is usually built on feedback from those who have direct interactions with the entity. A trust function is used to infer one’s trustworthiness based on such feedback. Many trust functions have been proposed in the literature. The...

This paper discusses elements of inter-entrepreneurial trust in regional networks and clusters in terms of influencing business processes and economic viability in today’s economy. The message that can be extracted from the literature is that competitive advantage strongly depends on interfirm collaboration and that networks with a high degree of trust lead to entrepreneurship and innovation. T...

Trust transitivity is a common phenomenon embedded in human reasoning about trust. Given a specific context or purpose, trust transitivity is often manifested through the humans’ intuition to rely on the recommendations of a trustworthy advisor about another entity that the advisor recommends. Although this simple principle has been formalised in various ways for many trust and reputation syste...

The promise of evidence-based management (EBMgt) is that educators and practitioners can access cumulative scientific information to guide their teaching and decision making. We argue that the EBMgt movement may be unable to live up to this promise to the extent that our cumulative scientific knowledge is not trustworthy. We review why the management discipline may not have trustworthy evidence...

Consumers’ attitudes to trust and risk are key issues in food safety research and attention needs to be focused on clearly defining a framework for analysing consumer behaviour in these terms. By creating a platform, or benchmark, it is hoped that more succinct policy programmes may be initiated to better communicate relevant issues to consumers. In order to achieve this, a detailed review of t...

This paper deals with the role of institutions in the development of trust in relationships between organizations. We review various strands of literature on organizational trust and examine the assumptions made about how trust building processes are influenced by institutional arrangements. Following this conceptual analysis, we discuss four mechanisms that are pivotal in the development of in...

The aim of this study is to examine the impact of culture on the trust determinants in e-commerce. The study adopts two broad trust building foundations (cognitionand affect-based trust) from cross-culture literature, focuses on one wellestablished cultural construct (i.e., individualism-collectivism) as groups of culture, develops a theoretical model of cognition-based versus affect-based e-Ve...

trust in god is a key concept in islamic ethics and mysticism. relying on the qur`an, the ethicists have advised muslims to realize this concept in their personal and social life. mystics treat it as one of the mystical stages passing through which is a must for every wayfarer. our written literature on ethics and mysticism frequently repeats the necessity of taking it into consideration. the n...

In any trust model, the two information sources that a peer relies on to predict trustworthiness of another peer are direct experience as well as reputation. These two vital components evolve over time. Trust evolution is an important issue, where the objective is to observe a sequence of past values of a trust parameter and determine the future estimates. Unfortunately, trust evolution algorit...