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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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A New Trust in Leadership Framework: A Cognition-Based and Affect-Based Process

Qin, Lei 05 August 2010 (has links)
No description available.
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The Impact of Trust Model on Customer Loyalty¡XA Study of Direct Selling Industry

Wang, Jau-Shyong 19 January 2005 (has links)
The role of trust in market exchange has been of consistent interest to marketing researchers over the past decade. Many researches in marketing have shown that customer trust in a company and its representatives can positively influence customer loyalty. However, a customer¡¦s deal with a particular product/service provider can also be influenced by the customer¡¦s trust in the broader marketplace¡Xfor example, trust in those who regulate the market and trust in the professionals who populate the marketplace. Drawing from a number of disciplines in addition to marketing, we identify three types of trust (Institutional Trust, Role Trust, Generalized Trust) in the broader marketplace that might influence trust (interpersonal trust, firm-specific trust) between two exchange partners. Using survey results collected from direct sellers of Taiwan¡¦s direct selling companies, we test competing theories about the influence of this trust. Our results show that the influence of broad-scope trust on customer loyalty is not direct, but is mediated by narrow-scope trust. Because the substitutional view implies a direct relationship between broad-scope trust and customer loyalty, this finding supports the foundational view of the relationship between broad-scope and narrow-scope trust.
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A matter of trust : A quantitative study dissecting individual predictors of trust, and one’s country of origin within a Swedish context

Schmidt, Viktor January 2017 (has links)
This thesis acts as an initial attempt to investigate how the relationship between one’s generational belonging, educational level, gender and membership in a variety of organizations on the matter of vertical and horizontal trust vary with one’s primary country of origin. Building on data from Riks-SOM 2014, it is shown that one’s primary country of origin not seem to have a unique effect on several of our selected variables on trust. Despite some variation amongst the variables, the results provide a picture of what in previous literature has been described as prosperous traits for the accumulation of trust amongst individuals still are of relevance within in the contemporary Swedish society. The primary focus is thus to be found at a micro-level. Also, the results show that the effect of one’s primary country of origin on our predictor variables is weaker than initially expected, leading to the rejection of some of our hypotheses. This does not indicate the absence of a trust-gap amongst Swedish citizens, as some results provide strength to such claims. However, the central point this thesis wishes to bring forth concerns that contemporary policy-makers should put its focus on promoting the importance of education post-high school level, and membership in certain organizations if the aim is to increase and promote trust for all within our contemporary Swedish society, as the logistic regression analyses here presented tells us a story of that such traits are beneficial for the accumulation of trust.
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Trust* : extending the reach of trust in distributed systems

Clarke, Stephen William January 2010 (has links)
Building trust is a common requirement in distributed environments especially since many transactions now occur on a person-to-person basis. Examples range from e-commerce on the Internet to peer-to-peer and grid resource sharing. Many solutions to the problem of requiring trust among unknown entities rely on the use of a reputation metric to assess the risk of a potential transaction. However, such reputation systems require (often implicitly) that trust is transitive which can be a problematic assumption. This dissertation proposes a novel mechanism which we call trust*. The trust* model uses guarantees to extend local trust between unknown end-points. Trust* can be used as a substitution for end-to-end trust. Principals provide guarantees within existing (local) trust relationships to build a chain of localised agreements between the unknown end-points. The guarantees are backed by local micropayments to provide deterrents and incentives. Trust* relationships can be composed transitively, and the guarantees reduce the risk for the trusting party when doing so. This is because a guarantee is only ever provided locally by a directly trusted principal. Thus, trust management can be reduced to a locally solved problem. This work aims to develop a new technique for assessing and reducing the risk involved in trusting others in a distributed environment. The thesis of this dissertation is that an electronic analogue of real-world guarantees, is a useful and interesting way to provide these assurances. We develop an extension of the notion of trust, which we call trust*, which is built upon local guarantees, and which provides a novel conceptual framework for analysing and reasoning about a wide variety of trust-related problems in distributed systems. We present the concept of trust* and apply it to a number of application scenarios where it would be beneficial. We simulate the trust* model in these environments for analysis. Also, we describe the key features and other issues related to the trust* model which became evident during its investigation and which are of wider interest.
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Religion and trust in Canada

Fairweather, Natasha A.D., University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science January 2009 (has links)
Research on social capital during the past two decades has shown that willingness to trust is linked to a host of individual and social outcomes, such as health, education, democracy, and robust economies. In this thesis I examine the ways in which religion may affect attitudes of trust, employing both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Specifically, three aspects of religion have been examined: denominational affiliation, spiritual belief, and the nature of the social interactions of the members of a faith community. Contextual factors relating a particular tradition to the broader society have also been included in the analysis. My findings suggest that although there is scant evidence to the effect of theology on trust, a much stronger influence on trust comes from the nature of social interactions (in the form of community‐building) and contextual factors (i.e., having a history of discrimination or being a resident of Quebec). / ix, 154 leaves ; 29 cm
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Trust development in International Healthcare Services: Elekta in Spain

Arrese, Sara, Wang, Liao January 2014 (has links)
Title: Trust development: a marketing strategy in the Internationalization of Healthcare Services.The case of Elekta in Spain Level: Master Thesis in Business Administration Author: Sara Arrese and Wang Liao Supervisor: Maria Fregidou-Malama Examiner: Akmal Hyder Date: 2014-10-02 Aim: The aim of this research is to examine how trust developing affects International Healthcare Services marketing while settling down into a new country. Our study is applied to Elekta in Spain. Method: In order to carry out this research, qualitative data is used, a single case study is applied, questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were carried out to collect the needed primary data. Result and Conclusions: In the case of Elekta Spain, the trust development between suppliers and customer took place during the entire relationship. In addition, the trust level at company level and individual level were found to be the most significant leaving aside the country level as there were different opinions between customers (which did not find it a deciding factor) and Elekta. Hence, for the marketing strategy, standardization and adaptations can improve trust development. Suggestions for future research: Generalization cannot be made after this research as a single case study in one country has been the subject for investigation. Consequently, future research of other service industries and countries could expand this study. Contribution of the thesis: This thesis offers a new theoretical framework of trust development in the Spanish Healthcare Industry. This framework not only can be adapted to further study of other countries, but also can be adapted to further study of other service industries.
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Trust Evaluation and Establishment for Multi-Agent Systems

Aref, Abdullah 09 May 2018 (has links)
Multi-agent systems are increasingly popular for modeling distributed environments that are highly complex and dynamic such as e-commerce, smart buildings, and smart grids. Often in open multi-agent systems, agents interact with other agents to meet their own goals. Trust is considered significant in multi-agent systems to make interactions effectively, especially when agents cannot assure that potential partners share the same core beliefs about the system or make accurate statements regarding their competencies and abilities. This work describes a trust model that augments fuzzy logic with Q-learning, and a suspension technique to help trust evaluating agents select beneficial trustees for interaction in uncertain, imprecise, and the dynamic multi-agent systems. Q-Learning is used to evaluate trust on the long term, fuzzy inferences are used to aggregate different trust factors and suspension is used as a short-term response to dynamic changes. The performance of the proposed model is evaluated using simulation. Simulation results indicate that the proposed model can help agents select trustworthy partners to interact with. It has a better performance compared to some of the popular trust models in the presence of misbehaving interaction partners. When interactions are based on trust, trust establishment mechanisms can be used to direct trustees, instead of trustors, to build a higher level of trust and have a greater impact on the results of interactions. This work also describes a trust establishment model for intelligent agents using implicit feedback that goes beyond trust evaluation to outline actions to guide trustees (instead of trustors). The model uses the retention of trustors to model trustors’ behaviours. For situations where tasks are multi-criteria and explicit feedback is available, we present a trust establishment model that uses a multi-criteria approach to help trustees to adjust their behaviours to improve their perceived trust and attract more interactions with trustors. The model calculates the necessary improvement per criterion when only a single aggregated satisfaction value is provided per interaction, where the model attempts to predicted both the appropriate value per criteria and its importance. Then we present a trust establishment model that integrates the two major sources of information to produce a comprehensive assessment of a trustor’s likely needs in multi-agent systems. Specifically, the model attempts to incorporates explicit feedback, and implicit feed-back assuming multi-criteria tasks. The proposed models are evaluated through simulation, we found that trustees can enhance their trustworthiness, at a cost, if they tune their behaviour in response to feedback (explicit or implicit) from trustors. Using explicit feedback with multi-criteria tasks, trustees can emphasize on important criterion to satisfy need of trustors. Trust establishment based on explicit feedback for multi-criteria tasks, can result in a more effective and efficient trust establishment compared to using implicit feedback alone. Integrating both approaches together can achieve a reasonable trust level at a relatively lower cost.
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Interpersonal online trust in new online social networks

Berger, Jonathan Michael 10 June 2012 (has links)
This research proposed a new model for online interpersonal trust based on eight properties of new online social networks. Two elements were found to have significant contributions. These were the ability for users to create an online personal profile where their real identity is disclosed, and the ability to create connections to other online users. The user's innate propensity to trust was also validated as a moderating force on online trust. These results have significant implications for further academic research and online practitioners.Online trust has long been understood as one of the biggest barriers to e-commerce and online business. Various online trust models have been developed and a common theme is the lack of an interpersonal trust component that exists in many real world trust models. Interpersonal trust has been excluded because the internet was considered an impersonal medium. This research argues that the internet has changed to become more personal, and that interpersonal trust is now possible online.The aim of this research was to assist businesses and web designers in understanding drivers of online trust on the new social web. From an academic perspective the aim was to challenge existing online trust knowledge to include interpersonal trust. An online survey was snowball sampled to South African users of Facebook. The survey tested the contribution of eight properties of new online social networks to online trust. The data was analysed using structural equation modelling and the model was found to have a good fit to the data. Further work however is required on the measurement instrument and sampling. / Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / unrestricted
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ABI and Beyond: Exploration of the Precursors to Trust in the Human-Automation Domain

Calhoun, Christopher Stephen January 2017 (has links)
No description available.
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Trust podle Common Law a institut svěřenského fondu v novém občanském zákoníku / Trust under Common Law versus the institute of "Svěřenský fond" under the new Czech Civil Code

Horn, Kryštof January 2014 (has links)
The purpose of this thesis is to describe the functioning of trust in the common law jurisdictions and its expansion to the civil law countries. It also focuses on the brand new Czech institute "Svěřenský fond" (trust fund) introduced by the new Czech Civil Code and aims to analyse its nature in regard to its trust context. The thesis is composed of three chapters, each of them dealing with different set of "trust" issues. Chapter One is descriptive. It deals with the history of fiduciary relationships in the Roman, medieval, Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak law as well as the current statutory provisions governing administration of property of others and trust funds in the Czech Republic. It also addresses a number of current ambiguities that have arisen from the recent re-codification. The Second chapter is comparative. Part One includes introductory remarks concerning comparative law issues. Part Two describes the nature and functions of trust in the common law jurisdictions and explains the trust taxonomy. Parts Three and Four provide an outline of several mixed jurisdictions as well as civil law jurisdictions and maps their approach to trusts. Chapter Three is analytical. First part examines the theoretical discrepancies in the civil law and common law notions of property along with other...

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