Research on organizational and inter‐organizational trust has become an important field in management andmarketing … of whom we trust; is the person whom we are trading with trusted, or the organization,or just the product‐quality? Not … objective of this research study therefore is toidentify how well US exporters understand the elements of trust that establish …

Trust is a crucial basis for interactions among parties in large, open distributed systems. Yet, the scale and dynamism … participants in an open systemmust share information about trust. Traditional models of trust employ simple heuristics and ad hoc … formulas, without adequate mathematicaljustification. These models fail to properly address the challenges of combining trust …

This study investigates business-to-business interpersonal trust formation (trust that develops between boundary … first investigate whether trust can form at this stage. Then we examine two factors that may affect trust formation: the … levels of procurement complexity. Results show that trust formation does occur at the price determination stage; however, the …

In this paper we investigate the relationship between supplier trust in the buyer and transactioncosts, information … cost minimization. Thus, our findings indicate that trust in supplier-buyer relations can create economic value and may be …

are likely to succeed in environments capable of engendering high levels of commercial and social trust between the firms …

Trust and deception have been of concern to researchers since the earliest research into multi-agent trading systems … (MATS). In an open trading environment, trust can be established by external mechanisms e.g. using secret keys or digital …-agent trading system (MATS) and explore how fraud and deception changes the trust required in a multi-agent trading system …

explores trust mechanisms to achieve security in the network. This framework is one of the first steps towards the synthesis of … an integrated solution that demonstrates that security solely depends on the initial trust level that nodes have for each …

ABSTRACT The Differing Effects of Satisfaction, Trust, and Commitment on Buyer's Behavioral Loyalty: A Study into the …