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This paper explores what constitutes a trustworthy message in the context of e-learning. We did this by asking students to produce messages that they believed people like themselves would trust and then analyzed the data they produced. Coming from a user experience (UX) perspective, our interest is in improving the design of e-learning systems. We found that students reinforced and reiterated several...
Due to Internet and social media web, the world as we know it is deeply changing integrating two different aspects of the social interaction: the one that develop in the real world and the one that develop in web society. In this paper we focus on the importance of generalized knowledge (agents' categories) in order to understand how much it is crucial in these two worlds. The cognitive advantage...
This study aims to theoretically construct a research model based on literature review in order to investigate the trust factors that affect the adoption of cloud-based supply chain management (SCM) systems. A new research model is comprised of six antecedent trust factors (communication, learning capacity, participation, usability, security, and reliability) that should influence the supply chain...
This communication aims to identify factors fostering Information Technology (IT) acceptance by nurses in Morocco. It suggests a model based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Usage of Technology [1] extended by a new construct called “Trust”. The study was conducted in public and private healthcare organizations located in Agadir city, south of Morocco. It concerned 250 nurses, representing...
This study aims at investigating the effect of organizational, trust, social, information technology, external factors and knower's attitude on knowledge sharing in a South African financial institution. The results shows that organizational, information technology, social, trust factors, and knower's attitude have a significance impact in knowledge sharing in an organization. The study implies that...
In this paper we present TRHIOS: a Trust and Reputation system for HIerarchical and quality-Oriented Societies. We focus our work on hierarchical medical organizations. The model estimates the reputation of an individual, RTRHIOS, taking into account information from three trust dimensions: the hierarchy of the system; the source of information; and the quality of the results. Besides the concrete...
Partially distributed teams (PDTs) are increasingly common in organizations as they collaborate across distance. A PDT has at least two collocated subteams that are geographically distant and communicate by electronic media. This paper reports on a two semester quasi-experimental study of students in global PDTs in the role of software developers designing an emergency management information system...
Marketing channel as the downstream end of a supply chain plays a crucial role in generating cash flow and meeting the demands of customers. The extant body of literature postulates that antecedent-consequence links that customer perceived value and service quality foster customer loyalty, leading to long term profitability. Nowadays, given the proliferation of global hypermarket organizations and...
This paper proposes a conceptual model of inter-organizational relationship, information sharing and new product development (NPD) performance, and conducts empirical study based on the survey of domestic manufacturing enterprises. The results show that trust, commitment and interdependence have positive impacts on information sharing, commitment and information sharing have positive impacts on NPD...
This research paper tries to add trust and Guanxi into the western frame of supplier selection to explain the mechanism of supplier search in China. On the basis of this analysis we make a number of recommendations for improvement of firmpsilas order getting capabilities in China.
The growing number of PKIs (Public Key Infrastructure) and the increasing number of situations where partners of a transaction may carry certificates signed by different CAs (Certification Authority) point out the problematic of trust between the different CAs. The degree to which a relying party can trust a CA depends upon the quality of its announced policy and its commitment to this policy. In...
This study develops an integrated model of trust, open-mindedness, knowledge application and organizational performance. We analyze the model using a structural equation model approach, and 208 manufacturing and service firms in China are selected as the samples of this study. The results conclude that: (1) Trust is positively relative open-mindedness; (2) Trust is a function of its knowledge application;...
The purpose of this paper is to analyze a series of factors that affects innovation and demonstrate that innovation are positively related to performance during business process integration and re-engineering based on e-commerce. According to prior research, the paper develops a number of testable hypotheses. It examines how trust, coordination, process innovation influence improvements in performance...
Reputation is a crucial factor in trust and thus in Web communities. Trust strategies may involve investigating user reputation or directly using transitive reputation to form the Web of Trust. We suggest an approach that takes advantage of both strategies without increasing the cost of investigation. Several systems nowadays form what we call ldquouser Web communitiesrdquo. In these communities,...
Knowledge sharing is crucial for success of companies operating in turbulent and uncertain environments. Knowledge sharing need to be introduced at a rapid pace while at the same time companies have to absorb market information and integrate knowledge during information technology application. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to develop a general model on the critical antecedents and outcome of...
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