published_or_final_version / Psychology / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 180-191).

Thesis advisor: William F. Stevenson / An important and basic question, highly-relevant to managerial practice, which has been only partially asked and answered in the organizational literature, concerns the development of initial trust among co-workers. In this dissertation, I develop and test the theoretical idea that individual reflection upon affectively-charged work experience will have considerable influence on present attributions of initial trustworthiness to co-workers. The theory is primarily based in the scholarly literature on attribution theory, affective forecasting and trust concepts. Empirical results from testing across three distinct vignette-based scenarios show that the valence of relevant indirect experience is significantly and positively related to the level of initially attributed trustworthiness. Two experiential indicators, relational self-efficacy and organizational identification, are also found to be situationally and positively related to the level of initially attributed trust. The discussion details important implications for scholarship and management practice. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2008. / Submitted to: Boston College. Carroll School of Management. / Discipline: Organization Studies.

We propose an identity management system that supports role-based pseudonymsthat are bound to a given set of services (service contexts) and supportthe use of reputation systems. Our proposal offers a solution for the problemof providing privacy protection and reputation mechanisms concurrently.The trust information used to evaluate the reputation of users is dynamic andassociated to their pseudonyms. In particular, our solution does not requirethe support or assistance from central authorities during the operation phase.Moreover, the presented scheme provides inherent detection and mitigation ofSybil attacks. Finally, we present an attacker model and evaluate the securityand privacy properties and robustness of our solution.

"Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration from the Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009." / Advisor(s): Powley, Edward H. ; Nissen, Mark E. "December 2009." "MBA Professional report"--Cover. Description based on title screen as viewed on January 29, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Trust, Trust Antecedent(s), Structure, Hierarchy, Edge, Performance Outcomes, Speed, Accuracy, Organizational Theory, Contingency Theory, Integrated Product Team(s), Defense Acquisition Program. Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-81). Also available in print.

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Thesis (M.S. in Human Systems Integration)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2009. / Thesis Advisor(s): Shattuck, Lawrence G. "June 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on July 10, 2009. Author(s) subject terms: trust, automation, reliance, mental model. Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-74). Also available in print.

Thesis (doctoral)--Göteborg University, 2005. / Abstract inserted. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (doctoral)--Göteborg University, 2005. / Abstract inserted. Includes bibliographical references.

Master-Arbeit Univ. St. Gallen, 2008.