Ökologische Ökonomen trafen sich per Zoom in den Jahren 2021 und 2021 regelmäßig mit Mitarbeitern des Vatikans, um in einem Circle of Ecological Economic Elders (CoEEE) wichtige Impulse aus der 2015 veröffentlichten Enzyklika von Papst Franziskus "Laudato sí. Über die Sorge für das...

Vertrauen bildet das Fundament stabiler Gesellschaften und ist essenziell für das reibungslose Funktionieren von Demokratien, Wirtschaftssystemen und sozialen Strukturen. Doch in Zeiten multipler Krisen - von wirtschaftlicher Unsicherheit über politische Polarisierung bis hin zu den...

Money, capitalist market societies' paramount contract, relies on the belief in its enduring value. However, we still know surprisingly little about the social foundations that sustain that belief. How is our collective trust in the enduring value of money socially built, and what happens if...

Dieser Sammelband bietet keine Antworten auf alle im Vorwort aufgeworfenen Fragen der aktuellen Arbeitswelt. Vielmehr soll er als Anregung und Inspiration für die Gestaltung der Gegenwart und nahen Zukunft dienen. Die Grundlage liegt im hohen Praxisbezug der Kapitel. Die Autorinnen sind...

Using a large-scale incentivized trust game experiment conducted across all 27 EU member states, we find that sexual minorities exhibit greater prosocial behaviour toward another vulnerable group but not toward an unknown counterpart, compared to heterosexual individuals. The observed effects...

Purpose This research aims to explore the intricate dynamics influencing the adoption of AI-driven smart tourism technologies within the specific context of the United Arab Emirates. It seeks to address the following key questions: How do ethical AI practices and personalization impact tourist...

Trust plays a crucial role in refugees’ integration. This study examines how social information about trust levels among peers from home and host countries affects non-Western refugees’ trust. Using a trust game, we measured experimentally trust levels among Swiss citizens, Turkish refugees,...

Based on Stimulus-organism-response theory, this study examines the significant role of green practices in influencing green revisit intentions through the creation of green image and green trust. The quantitative research involved reliability analysis, exploratory factor analysis, measurement...

The success of open innovation (OI) partnerships depends on the careful management of diverse relational dynamics, including trust, knowledge-sharing, and problem-solving interactions. This study applies multilayer network analysis to examine the relational dynamics of three distinct OI...

While traditional behavioral finance theories such as the TRA, TPB, and TAM have provided substantial insights, their application to the rapidly evolving digital finance sector, particularly cryptocurrency markets, has been limited. Addressing this gap, our study integrates Digital Trust Theory...

Background During the post-pandemic era, there has been growing anxiety regarding health security, especially among the middle class worldwide. The public's confidence in the healthcare system encompasses their expectations and perceptions of the healthcare system's ability to meet their needs...

Purpose This study proposes a hierarchic segmentation that develops a tree-based classification model and classifies the cases into groups. This allows for the definition of e-commerce user profiles for each of the groups. Additionally, it facilitates the development of actions to improve the...

Trusted flaggers have long played a role in content moderation: a bilateral, voluntary affair between online platforms and individuals or organisations that are afforded prioritised access to the content moderation process. Due to their expertise, they are trusted to 'flag' illegal or harmful...

This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of FinTok influencers in preventing online travel scams by enhancing consumer trust, financial literacy, and data privacy concerns. The research examines how these influencers can contribute to improving consumer protection and safety in digital...

Objective of this research is to find out the relationship between customers' perceptions of an organization's privacy information practices and their information-sharing intention in the context of omnichannel retailing. The study aimed to address the gap in research regarding privacy concerns...

LLMs are emerging as information sources that influence organizational knowledge, though trust in them varies. This paper combines data from a large-scale experiment and the World Values Survey (WVS) to examine the determinants of trust in LLMs. The experiment measures trust in LLM-generated...

The vast majority of Europeans continues to support action to combat climate change, but many are losing faith in governments to deliver a transition that is effective and fair. Based on a large-scale questionnaire answered by nearly 8000 people in five EU countries in 2024, with a comparison to...

A robust Research & Innovation (R&I) ecosystem is essential for progress, economic resilience, and addressing complex challenges. At the heart of this ecosystem, knowledge fuels innovation and further discovery. However, knowledge leakage (the loss of valuable information) can disrupt this...

In recent months, there has been an intensifying debate over whether Europe can still rely on US extended nuclear deterrence or should begin to consider alternatives that are independent of Washington. A binary approach - trust or no trust - is of limited analytical value here; the subject matter...

This paper investigates how institutional and social trust respond to crisis situations, and to what extent different kinds of trust interact in such a context. In an online survey experiment on 4,400 representative respondents from Italy, participants are exposed to a real-world flooding...

The project 'Building capacity for evidence-informed policymaking in governance and public administration in a post-pandemic Europe' was inspired by the need of Member States to respond to complex policy issues requiring specialised knowledge, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic led to a...

The "Trust in Science for Policy Nexus" workshop, held in Ispra, Italy, on September 12-13, 2024, convened by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, the International Science Council, and co-sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, explored the intricate dynamics of trust in...

Background: This research aims to comprehensively evaluate the influence of firm capabilities, resources, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) on supply chain financing within the Jordanian context. It also analyzes the mediating role of blockchain technology and trust in these relationships....

This paper explores the relationship between loneliness, trust, and populist voting across both extremes of the ideological spectrum. The contribution of this research is mainly two-fold. First, it considers different dimensions of loneliness and accounts for its predetermined component stemming...

We investigate whether eponymous hedge funds-those named after their founder/manager-signal managerial ability or ethical behavior. While such funds do not outperform non-eponymous peers, they exhibit lower operational and fraud risks. Survey evidence supports these findings. Eponymous funds...

Mental models help people navigate complex environments. This paper studies how people deal with model uncertainty. In an experiment, participants estimate a company's value, facing uncertainty about which one of two models correctly determines its true value. Using a between-subjects design, we...

Health, inherently rich in multi-modal data, could profit significantly from artificial intelligence (AI)1 . Yet, adoption of AI in health remains challenging due to three key issues: (1) The "trust barrier": while a plethora of documents based on AI (ethical) principles are available, there...

This study examines how overconfidence shapes individuals' preference for redistribution. We contend that overconfidence inflates individuals' income expectations, which reduces the perceived benefits of redistribution for these individuals and thereby weakens their preference for such policies....