The special issue on "Trust and Community on the Internet" of the journal Analyse & Kritik has some article about trust on Ebay: http://www.analyse-und-kritik.net/archiv/2004_1/inhalt.htm Best wishes, Uwe Matzat
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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:20:34 +0300 From: Jonas Holmstr?m <jonas.holmstrom@hanken.fi> Subject: [Air-l] Anyone know of published, qualitative studies of trust on e-bay? To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <CFD16FBD-BE25-4744-BD6B-BB22653DE9E8@hanken.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
These might also be relevant:
The evolution of trust(worthiness) in the net http://ideas.repec.org/p/esi/discus/2004-21.html
The Digitization of Word-of-Mouth: Promise and Challenges of Online Feedback http://ideas.repec.org/p/mit/sloanp/7346.html
Reputation distribution and consumer-to-consumer online auction market structure: an exploratory study http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2004.07.006
The Dynamics of Seller Reputation: Theory and Evidence from eBay http://ideas.repec.org/p/cpr/ceprdp/4345.html
/Jonas
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