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Antecedents And Consequences Of Trust In Supply Chain: The Role Of Information Technology, Qing Hu, Jinghua Xiao, Kang Xie, Nilesh Saraf Jan 2014

Antecedents And Consequences Of Trust In Supply Chain: The Role Of Information Technology, Qing Hu, Jinghua Xiao, Kang Xie, Nilesh Saraf

Qing Hu

Trust has been a central construct in studies of inter-firm relationships. Many operational, organizational, social, and cultural factors have been identified to have significant impact on inter-firm trust. In this study, we investigate the role of information technology in generating inter-firm trust and the consequences of this trust in the context of supply networks. Using structural equation modeling techniques, our data show that the level of information systems integration among the partner firms in a supply network significantly impacts the trust among the firms which, together with the integrated information systems, explains more than half of the variances in information …


The Impacts Of Trust And Feelings On Knowledge Sharing Among Chinese Employees, Michael J. Zhang Jan 2014

The Impacts Of Trust And Feelings On Knowledge Sharing Among Chinese Employees, Michael J. Zhang

New England Journal of Entrepreneurship

This article examines the differential effects of two types of trust (affect based and cognition based) and two types of feelings (ganqing and jiaoqing) on different knowledge-sharing processes (seeking, transfer, and adoption) among Chinese employees. The influences of these different types of trust and feelings on Chinese employees’ propensities to seek, transfer, and adopt explicit and tacit knowledge are also analyzed and discussed. The analysis shows affect-based trust increases knowledge transfer, while cognition-based trust is more important to knowledge seeking and adoption. Affect-based trust alone can facilitate the different processes of sharing explicit knowledge. Effective sharing of tacit knowledge, on …


The Influence Of Cognitive Trust And Familiarity On Adoption And Continued Use Of Smartphones: An Empirical Analysis, Efosa C. Idemudia, Mahesh S. Raisinghani Jan 2014

The Influence Of Cognitive Trust And Familiarity On Adoption And Continued Use Of Smartphones: An Empirical Analysis, Efosa C. Idemudia, Mahesh S. Raisinghani

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

In the information-driven and application rich environment of smartphones, power is closer to the user than ever before and it has the potential of helping them become more effective and efficient. Smartphones have become increasingly important for companies to create strategic opportunities and competitive advantage by adding value for its stakeholders and improving efficiency. Technological advances in smartphones have led to increased mobile applications and implications for theory and practice since they create strategic opportunities and competitive advantage by adding value for customers and improving efficiency through the use of mobile technologies. Understanding the factors that influence the continuance in …