On the Need to Include National Culture as a Central Issue in E-Commerce Trust Beliefs

Abstract

Deliberate exploitation of natural resources and excessive use of environmentally abhorrent materials have resulted in environmental disruptions threatening the life support systems. A human centric approach of development has already damaged nature to a large extent. This has attracted the attention of environmental specialists and policy makers. It has also led to discussions at various national and international conventions. The objective of protecting natural resources cannot be achieved without the involvement of professionals from multidisciplinary areas. This chapter recommends a model for the creation of knowledge-based systems for natural resources management. Further, it describes making use of unique capabilities of remote sensing satellites for conserving natural resources and managing natural disasters. It is exclusively for the people who are not familiar with the technology and who are given the task of framing policies.

Interpersonal Trust and Platform Credibility in a Chinese Multibrand Online Community

“…These characteristics may partly result from the severe and persistent product safety issues in China, which prompt consumers to turn to their peers to seek product and consumption information. These distinct consumer-related and institutional characteristics also point to the real need to expand research to cultures other than the United States (Gefen and Heart 2006).…”

Software Services for e-World

“…[1,10,23]). After examining several ontologies, we decided to use [12,21,23,25,27,33] as reference ontologies based on the shared subject and their broad scope for comparison. By building upon an information security standard that is specifically used to certify information security management systems (ISMS) we cannot make the claim to deliver such a contribution either.…”

“…Contrary the 'vulnerability' concept plays a vital role in the operationalization of ontologies like [12,33] and should be considered for adoption in a more general metamodel of the information security domain. Contrary the 'vulnerability' concept plays a vital role in the operationalization of ontologies like [12,33] and should be considered for adoption in a more general metamodel of the information security domain.…”

“…According to the U&G [26], individuals interact with media in a goal-oriented fashion to fulfill a core set of motives or gratifications, which are similar to performance expectancies. SNS have been portrayed to be a great venue for people to look for self [32][33][34]. Since SNS are a typical Internet application, we also adopt the similar approach.…”

Who is out there?

“…While generally true, trust is particularly important when risks and uncertainties dominate the transaction climate, as is the case at the inception of most business relationships (Bensaou, 1997;Luhmann, 1979;Nicolaou and McKnight, 2006). With the increasing prevalence of online business since the 1990s, trust has been established as a crucial factor for transacting online for both B2C (Ba and Pavlou, 2002;Einwiller, 2003;Gefen, 2000;Gefen and Heart, 2006) and B2B ecommerce (Dyer and Chu, 2003;Franke et al, 2005;Grossman, 2004;Hart and Saunders, 1997).…”