It isn't a matter of just being funny: Humor production by organizational leaders

This study explored whether organizational leaders recognize humor as part of their management style and how compatible the leaders ‘ humor strategy is with their overall communication style. Results reveal that leaders use more pro‐social humor than anti‐social humor in the workplace. Several relationships between the emotional aspects of humor production and the communicator style constructs indicate that leaders use humor as a socially acceptable communication technique to control groups and enhance their own communicator image.     

Validity of the management communication style construct

A relatively recent addition to the organizational communication literature is the Management Communication Style (MCS) measure developed by Richmond and McCroskey (1979). Although the reliability of this measure has been reported, estimates of validity are noticeably missing. The present study assesses the validity of the MCS instrument by examining the relationship between employees perceptions of supervisors on the MCS and pertinent communication behaviors. Results support positive relationships between MCS and listening, understanding, and quality of communication. Findings provide preliminary evidence supporting the validity of the MCS instrument. Implications for future research are discussed.     

A meta-analysis of antecedents and consequences of trust in mobile commerce

Awareness of antecedents and consequences of trust in m-commerce can enable m-commerce service providers to design suitable marketing strategies. Present study conducted a meta-analysis of 118 related empirical studies. The results indicate that antecedents namely perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, system quality, information quality, service quality, user interface, perceived risk, perceived security, structural assurance, ubiquity, and disposition to trust, while consequences namely attitude, user satisfaction, behavioral intention, and loyalty have significant relationship with trust in m-commerce. Further, all the relationships were found to be moderated by culture except perceived ease of use, disposition to trust, and attitude.     

社会资本：区域经济发展的软实力

社会资本是一种不同于物质资本、人力资本的无形资本形式,以社会参与网络为载体,以信任、合作、规范及文化认同为核心,是区域经济发展的软实力。社会资本有利于降低交易成本、促进企业间的信任与合作：有利于区域内产业集群的形成：有利于增强区域整体的创新能力。因此,政府在关注区域有形资本和人力资本的投入时．也要致力于社会资本的培育和建设。具体而言,地方政府应加强信用制度供给,培育创新、信用、合作、开放的区域文化,加强商会、行业协会等民间组织的作用。创建区域与外界交流的平台,加强区域对外沟通交流。     

The open kimono: How Intel balances trust and power to maintain platform leadership

A small group of companies including Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco have used “platform leadership” with great effect as a means for driving innovation and accelerating market growth within their respective industries. Prior research in this area emphasizes that trust plays a critical role in the success of this strategy. However, many of the categorizations of trust discussed in the literature tend to ignore or undervalue the fact that trust and power are often functionally equivalent, and that the coercion of weaker partners is sometimes misdiagnosed as collaboration. In this paper, I use case study data focusing on Intel's shift from ceramic/wire-bonded packaging to organic/C4 packaging to characterize the relationships between Intel and its suppliers, and to determine if these links are based on power in addition to trust. The case study shows that Intel's platform leadership strategy is built on a balance of both trust and a relatively benevolent form of power that is exemplified by the company's “open kimono” principle, through which Intel insists that suppliers share detailed financial data and highly proprietary technical information to achieve mutually advantageous objectives. By explaining more completely the nature of these inter-firm linkages, this paper usefully extends our understanding of how platform leadership is maintained by Intel, and contributes to the literature by showing how trust and power can be used simultaneously within an inter-firm relationship in a way that benefits all of the stakeholders.     

试论人际交往信任机制的完善

现今社会,随着经济的飞速发展,人际交往也日益频繁,良好的人际交往能力也成了人们社会生存所要具备的重要因素之一。面时复杂的社会现实,伴着形形色色的诱惑和欲望,人际交往过程中,出现了种种信任缺失的行为现象。因此,建立完善的信任机制,是人际交往面临的一大社会问题,也是社会发展中人际交往走向成熟的重要标签。     

A Cultural Comparison of Trust in eLearning Artifacts

A significant body of literature focuses on learning mediated by technology (eLearning). We conceptually develop and empirically test a model of trust antecedents with online undergraduate students. Contributing to the student eLearning success literature, we posit that eLearning students require the support of technologies and trust in those technologies to feel satisfied with their learning and perceive that they will have a positive learning outcome. This study considers the effect of culture by comparing the trust and satisfaction of American and Latin American students in eLearning technologies. By conducting this study in two countries that differ in terms of national culture power distance and individualism, we learned that culture directly and significantly impacts trust in learning technologies. Culture also significantly changes the strength of the relation between trust and satisfaction. Future research directions and implications for researchers and higher education instructors are discussed.     

基于petri网的自动信任协商理论研究

在以往的自动信任协商研究中,Petri网很少被用于构造策略模型。提出一种基于petri网的自动信任协商进行合理建模和分析,提供了形式化建模方法和验证,并通过VC程序对其进行了模拟验证,达到了对自动信任协商理论研究的目的。     

信任对教师团队学习的影响机制及其培养策略

教师团队学习对学校的发展尤为重要,而信任是团队学习得以顺利进行的必要保障。本文从团队成员、团队领导、学校三个层面分析了信任对教师团队学习的影响机制以及教师团队信任的培养策略,提出了研究信任如何影响教师团队学习的新视角。     

论高校思想政治理论课中的师生信任

高校中的师生信任是决定高校思想政治理论课教育效果的重要一环。本文从师生信任的特点,导致师生不信任的原因．塑造师生信任的途径几个方面对高校师生信任问题进行剖析,对解决高校师生信任问题提出了自己的见解,