This paper examines the structure of trust modes and its evolution in entrepreneurial team. Four types of trust modes are distinguished according to interaction behavior among team members. The structure of each trust modes ...

As a result of a broad range of reforms, one significant change in the governance landscape in China is the multiple forms of enterprise ownership. This empirical study investigates differences between private and ...

Trustworthiness in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communication is a foundation for the success of e-Busincss. Numerous methods and techniques have been proposed to help establish trust between two communicating peers. These methods ...

To survive, and indeed thrive, in an open heterogenous information sharing environment, an agent's ability to evaluate the trustworthiness of other agents becomes crucial. In this paper, we investigate a procedure for ...

In Australia, as in many countries, the early advertising industry had a poor reputation for honesty. However, in 1920 "truth in advertising" and raising ethical behavior became the focus of the Second Convention of ...

Electronic-Services (e-services) involves various types, delivery systems, advanced information technologies, methodologies and applications of online services that are provided by e-government, e-business, e-commerce, e-market, ...

The paper discusses a perspective on information literacy in the workplace based on research into the information use of senior managers. Varying experiences of information use reflect different information use processes and ...

Nanoparticles of elements such as Au, Al or Ag have optical extinction cross-sections that considerably surpass their geometric cross-sections at certain wavelengths of light. While the absorption and scattering maxima for ...

The influence of a near-field tip on the spectral characteristics of a resonant mode of an active photonic crystal micro-cavity was investigated. The wavelength shift of the mode was theoretically and experimentally ...

The role of the plasma frequency omega(p) of conductors in their use for various solar energy and energy efficiency tasks, especially in transparent solar control window coatings, is analysed for a range of materials ...