As we move into a world of ubiquitous and pervasive computing, there is an increased interaction between people and smart devices, which have computing power. In such a world, computing power is moving from big desktops to very small and miniature devices and there is a seamless integration of computing power and day-to-day life. For such a world of computing, we believe that there is a need fo...

Lack of consumer trust is a critical obstacle to the success of online retailing. Knowledge is one important factor influencing the level of trust. However, there is no consensus on the relationship between knowledge and trust. Some studies argued a negative relationship between knowledge and trust while the others argued positive. This study discussed the relationship among knowledge, trust in...

Nowadays dozens of people share their content in the current Web 2.0 space, talk with friends in social networking sites such as Facebook and live on the Net in many other ways. They do all this quite naturally, forgetting the healthy cautiousness sometimes. In real life we rely on trusted people. Do we know how to reflect real-world trust mechanisms into on-line social software? In the article...

BACKGROUND In a demand oriented health care system based on managed competition, health insurers have incentives to become prudent buyers of care on behalf of their enrolees. They are allowed to selectively contract care providers. This is supposed to stimulate competition between care providers and both increase the quality of care and contain costs in the health care system. However, health i...

Many theories of trust emphasize that trust is most relevant to behavior in situations involving a conflict of interests. However, it is not clear how trust relates to behavior across situations that differ in the degree of conflicting interest: Does trust matter more when the conflict of interest is small or large? According to an interdependence perspective, trust becomes an especially import...

In the paper, it analyses the relationship between social capital and social security among the youth in sari(Northern Iran). Out of 65326 young people more than 118 ones were randomly selected through Cochran sampling method.The Alph- coranbach coefficient for the social capital were %85 and for social security were %83. According to Pearson correlation coefficient, there is a significant rela...

It is difficult to know whether different dimensions of trust have different effects on local residents' acceptance of nuclear power plants (NPPs). In previous research such trust has been considered as a single dimensional concept. This paper divides trust into goodwill trust and competence trust, and we explore the ways in which trust affects acceptance of NPPs through structural equation mod...

in spite of the much investment on using it in banking and in spite of users’ easy access, reports show that some people do not use it. this problem shows the need to explore factors which determine the acceptance of internet banking system by users. the purpose of this study is to establish the relationship between perceived security and trust in internet banking from the viewpoint of female c...

today, many companies have multiple channels, such as sales force, direct mail / catalog, internet and broadcast channels, telephone, etc. for providing goods and services to its customers. multiple distribution channels, despite having benefits, several challenges such as the incidence of conflict, allocation of product, free ride some members have being emerged. the aim of this study was to i...