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Muldoon, Jeffrey, Antonina Bauman, and Carol Lucy. "Entrepreneurial ecosystem: do you trust or distrust?" Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy 12, no. 2 (May 14, 2018): 158–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jec-07-2017-0050.
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Purpose The purpose of the paper is to examine the role of trust and distrust in social networks within the entrepreneurial ecosystem and to develop a conceptual scheme of the impact of trust and distrust on productive and unproductive entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach This study develops a conceptual scheme, founded on the social capital and resource-based view of a firm, by exploring the impact of trust and distrust on entrepreneurial behavior in a social network. Findings As the paper indicates, trust within an entrepreneurial ecosystem has a positive impact on productive entrepreneurship, while distrust within the ecosystem is expected to be unproductive and destructive (or potentially illegal) to an economy. Research limitations/implications The research implication of this paper is that it connects levels of trust and distrust within the ecosystem to the type of the behavior exhibited by entrepreneurs leading either to productive or unproductive entrepreneurial endeavors. As this study is based on the theoretical review resulting in a conceptual scheme, it requires further investigation of proposed interactions. Practical implications This paper offers strategic alternatives for entrepreneurs seeking to enhance future endeavors by strengthening trust within social networks for the mutual benefits of the ecosystem and businesses within it. Social implications This study highlights the importance of two social constructs of trust and distrust in maintaining existing and developing future ecosystems. It also reviews potential outcomes of entrepreneurial behavior and their impact on economies. Originality/value This research examines both trust and distrust (two separate social constructs) as significant predictors of future outcomes in the entrepreneurial ecosystem that go beyond productive entrepreneurship.
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Rehman, Muhammad Habib ur, Khaled Salah, Ernesto Damiani, and Davor Svetinovic. "Trust in Blockchain Cryptocurrency Ecosystem." IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management 67, no. 4 (November 2020): 1196–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tem.2019.2948861.
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Cobben, Dieudonnee, and Nadine Roijakkers. "The Dynamics of Trust and Control in Innovation Ecosystems." International Journal of Innovation 7, no. 1 (January 2, 2019): 01–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.5585/iji.v7i1.341.
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Within the innovation ecosystem literature, scholars have considered governance mechanisms as an important instrument for focal entities to mitigate the risks of opportunistic behaviour. Scholars have not focused yet on how these mechanisms work. In the alliance literature, governance mechanisms have been extensively researched and described. As innovation ecosystems are a subset of alliances, constructs from the alliance literature are used to understand how governance mechanisms are employed by the focal entity within innovation ecosystems. Scholars have also considered the importance of partner alignment for successful innovations. To mitigate the risks of opportunistic behaviour and to align partners, this research has focused on understanding how the focal entity uses governance mechanisms to influence partner alignment. Based on an exploratory multiple case study research, this research has found a list of partner stimulators, like for example leadership and expectation management, that influence the effectiveness of governance mechanisms used by focal entities in aligning partners. When partner alignment stimulators are present, the effectiveness of governance mechanisms is enhanced and partners feel more aligned. We have also developed a model that explains the relation between partner alignment stimulators, governance mechanisms, and partner alignment. In addition, we have found that constructs from the alliance literature can be applied to an innovation ecosystem setting when partner alignment stimulators are considered in addition to governance mechanisms. We contribute to the innovation ecosystem literature by explicitly considering partner alignment stimulators that influence the relation between governance mechanisms and partner alignment. Future research could focus on using quantitative methods to strengthen the findings of this research.
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Ruotsalainen, Pekka, Bernd Blobel, and Seppo Pohjolainen. "Privacy and Trust in eHealth: A Fuzzy Linguistic Solution for Calculating the Merit of Service." Journal of Personalized Medicine 12, no. 5 (April 19, 2022): 657. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jpm12050657.
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The use of eHealth and healthcare services are becoming increasingly common across networks and ecosystems. Identifying the quality and health impact of these services is a big problem that in many cases it is difficult determine. Health ecosystems are seldom designed with privacy and trust in mind, and the service user has almost no way of knowing how much trust to place in the service provider and other stakeholders using his or her personal health information (PHI). In addition, the service user cannot rely on privacy laws, and the ecosystem is not a trustworthy system. This demonstrates that, in real life, the user does not have significant privacy. Therefore, before starting to use eHealth services and subsequently disclosing personal health information (PHI), the user would benefit from tools to measure the level of privacy and trust the ecosystem can offer. For this purpose, the authors developed a solution that enables the service user to calculate a Merit of Service (Fuzzy attractiveness rating (FAR)) for the service provider and for the network where PHI is processed. A conceptual model for an eHealth ecosystem was developed. With the help of heuristic methods and system and literature analysis, a novel proposal to identify trust and privacy attributes focused on eHealth was developed. The FAR value is a combination of the service network’s privacy and trust features, and the expected health impact of the service. The computational Fuzzy linguistic method was used to calculate the FAR. For user friendliness, the Fuzzy value of Merit was transformed into a linguistic Fuzzy label. Finally, an illustrative example of FAR calculation is presented.
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Oumaima, Smyej, and Ben Massou S. Mohamed. "The Conditions of the Emergence of Innovation Ecosystems: A Panoramic View." International Journal of Business and Management 17, no. 12 (November 3, 2022): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijbm.v17n12p44.
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Based on a bibliographic study, this contribution explores the conditions of birth of innovation Ecosystems (IEs). The main purpose is to give an overview of the current thinking on the theme. The conceptual models drawn from the literature including the factors of birth of an ecosystem constitute the result of this paper work. The main ambition is the study of the possibility of setting up an IE with analysis of the existing situation. Thanks to an exploratory study, we were able to proof that an ecosystem community come into existence through both emergent and deliberate strategies. Three major phases characterize ecosystems arrival: knowledge ecosystem (KE), IE and business ecosystem (BE). During the birth phase, many factors are likely to enhance its advent, in particular: the diversity of ecosystem’s actors, the sharing of knowledge between members, the training for collaborative and inter-organizational skills and the establishment of a climate of trust within the community.
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D'Hauwers, Ruben, Nils Walravens, and Pieter Ballon. "Data Ecosystem Business Models." Journal of Business Models 10, no. 2 (November 3, 2022): 1–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.54337/jbm.v10i2.6946.
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Purpose: Organizations evolve from using and governing data internally towards the exchange of data in multi-organizational data ecosystems. The purpose of this research is to determine a business model framework for actors operating in and/or entering a data ecosystem. Methodology: To determine a business model framework in data ecosystems. an analysis was made based on how the research fields of “business models”, “data governance”, “data ecosystems”, “data sharing”, “business ecosystem” complement each other. A business model framework was created, which was applied to three use case studies in the field of Smart Cities and Urban Digital Twins: The Helsinki Digital Twin, the Rotterdam Digital Twin, and the Smart Retail Dashboard in Flanders. Findings: The business model of actors in a data ecosystem is determined by value and control factors. Value is determined by the capability to create value through the exchange of data in the ecosystem, and to capture value through revenue (sharing) models and cost (sharing) models. Control is determined by ecosystem control. Governance models on the ecosystem level are required to enable the collaboration and to ensure trust to allow for the willingness to share data. Additionally, data governance on an ecosystem level is required, enabling the data exchange between the actors. Research Limitations: The model was applied to three use cases in Smart Cities and Urban Digital Twins. Consequently, the data ecosystems concern a high presence of public actors, yet also includes private companies. The applicability needs to be identified in other sectors in further research. Additionally, as the scope of the study was on business models, data governance, data-sharing and data ecosystems, abstraction was made of fields of study beyond these topics. Value and practical implications: The Data Ecosystem Business Model framework can serve as a guideline for organizations entering a data ecosystem, as well as for actors aiming to establish novel data ecosystems. Additionally, the framework can serve as a high-level overview for further research into the field of business models in data ecosystems.
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Liu, Bo, Yun-Fei Shao, Guowei Liu, and Debing Ni. "An Evolutionary Analysis of Relational Governance in an Innovation Ecosystem." SAGE Open 12, no. 2 (April 2022): 215824402210930. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21582440221093044.
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Despite considerable research highlighting the significance of relational governance in inter-organizational relationships, few have involved the connections between relational governance and innovation ecosystems. This study explores this issue to discover the influential mechanisms of relational governance in innovation ecosystem co-evolution. Building an evolutionary game model, we embody trust and reciprocity (two dominance of relational governance) into co-evolutionary relationships of an innovation ecosystem composed of focal firms, research institutes, customers, and governments, and discuss how relational governance affects innovation strategies of actors. Moreover, the impacts of benefit distribution are also examined. We reveal that (1) focal firms and governments prefer cooperative strategies; (2) reciprocity and trust foster cooperation; increasing benefit distribution drives all actors to collaborate except research institutes; (3) governments finitely encourage cooperation through regulation; and (4) the power of relational governance is restricted due to the below-the-average strategies of customers and research institutes and the neutralizing effects of benefits. Our findings offer a complementary and novel framework for relational governance and extend a deeper understanding of innovation ecosystem studies.
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Marche, Claudio, and Michele Nitti. "Can We Trust Trust Management Systems?" IoT 3, no. 2 (March 23, 2022): 262–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/iot3020015.
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The Internet of Things is enriching our life with an ecosystem of interconnected devices. Object cooperation allows us to develop complex applications in which each node contributes one or more services. Therefore, the information moves from a provider to a requester node in a peer-to-peer network. In that scenario, trust management systems (TMSs) have been developed to prevent the manipulation of data by unauthorized entities and guarantee the detection of malicious behaviour. The community concentrates effort on designing complex trust techniques to increase their effectiveness; however, two strong assumptions have been overlooked. First, nodes could provide the wrong services due to malicious behaviours or malfunctions and insufficient accuracy. Second, the requester nodes usually cannot evaluate the received service perfectly. For this reason, a trust system should distinguish attackers from objects with poor performance and consider service evaluation errors. Simulation results prove that advanced trust algorithms are unnecessary for such scenarios with these deficiencies.
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Zhang, Hui, Huanhuan Xiong, and Jianxin Xu. "Dynamic Simulation Research on the Effect of Governance Mechanism on Value Co-Creation of Blockchain Industry Ecosystem." Sustainability 14, no. 12 (June 10, 2022): 7107. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14127107.
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The development of blockchain technology promotes the evolution of the industrial ecosystem, and the value co-creation in the ecosystem has become an important factor for the sustainable and coordinated development of the blockchain industry ecosystem. By answering the question of how governance mechanisms affect the value co-creation of the blockchain industry ecosystem, this paper aims to clarify the realization mechanism of value co-creation of the blockchain industry ecosystem. Based on the transaction cost theory and social exchange theory, the governance mechanisms of the blockchain industry ecosystem are divided into contract governance and trust governance. The system dynamics method is used to analyze the causality of the effect of governance mechanisms on value co-creation of the blockchain industry ecosystem, the model of system flow chart is established, and Vensim PLE software is used to perform simulation and sensitivity analyses of the model. The results show that: both contract governance and trust governance can positively affect the value co-creation of the blockchain industry ecosystem; due to the existence of bounded rationality, compared with contract governance, trust governance has a more significant impact on system resource innovation and value co-creation; there is a co-existence effect among contract governance and trust governance, and compared with the single effect, the co-existence effect of two can promote the value co-creation process of the blockchain industry ecosystem more actively. The research results reveal the internal laws of the value co-creation and provide valuable insights into the exploitation of governance mechanisms to facilitate effectively the value creation of the blockchain industry ecosystem.
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Glukhov, V. V., A. V. Babkin, E. V. Shkarupeta, and V. A. Plotnikov. "Strategic Management of Industrial Ecosystems Based on the Platform Concept." Economics and Management 27, no. 10 (November 17, 2021): 751–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.35854/1998-1627-2021-10-751-765.
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Aim. The presented study aims to develop a structural model for industrial ecosystem management and to propose strategies for the industrial ecosystem orchestrator.Tasks. The authors systematize the landscape of existing research in the field of ecosystems; identify the problem and determine the research gap; develop the concept of ecosystem entity; determine the specific features of industrial ecosystem management; develop a structural model for industrial ecosystem management based on the platform concept; recommend strategies for the industrial ecosystem orchestrator.Methods. This study uses general scientific methods (synthesis, generalization, content analysis, graphical data interpretation), economic and statistical methods (correlation and regression analysis, mathematical statistics, expert methods, principal components analysis, hierarchical agglomerative clustering). As part of a study of economic sectors and digital technologies, the market structure is analyzed, and the dynamics of development indicators of digitalization processes is described.Results. The landscape of modern ecosystem research, types and properties of ecosystems, the composition of actors and exchange resources by ecosystem type are systematized, the concept of ecosystem entity is developed, and the specific features of industrial ecosystem management are determined. A structural model for industrial ecosystem management is developed. Four strategies for the industrial ecosystem orchestrator are recommended: increasing value, building trust, activating industrial ecology, institutionalization.Conclusions. In the context of digital transformation, it is advisable to implement strategic management of industrial ecosystems based on the platform concept. The results of managing an industrial ecosystem with the orchestrator function include enhancing the maturity and integration potential of synergetic interaction in the ecosystem, maintaining a high level of coherence (consistency) between actors at different hierarchical levels, creating long-term value and improving the quality of life.
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Sharma, Vishal. "Functional Security and Trust in Ultra-Connected 6G Ecosystem." EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems 9, no. 4 (December 20, 2022): e5. http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eetinis.v9i4.2846.
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Security and trust are the entangled role players in the future generation of wireless networks. Security in 5G networks is currently supported using several functions. Given the advantages of such a system, this article explores the functional security and trust for the 6G ecosystem with ultra-connectivity. Several associated challenges, application-specific domains, and consumer issues related to 6G security are discussed. The article highlights the network security-by-design and trust-by-design principles and performance expectations from the security protocols in supporting handover in an ultra-connected scenario. Finally, potential research directions are presented for a road towards the 6G ecosystem.
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Lee, Minha, Lily Frank, and Wijnand IJsselsteijn. "Brokerbot: A Cryptocurrency Chatbot in the Social-technical Gap of Trust." Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 30, no. 1 (February 2021): 79–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10606-021-09392-6.
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AbstractCryptocurrencies are proliferating as instantiations of blockchain, which is a transparent, distributed ledger technology for validating transactions. Blockchain is thus said to embed trust in its technical design. Yet, blockchain’s technical promise of trust is not fulfilled when applied to the cryptocurrency ecosystem due to many social challenges stakeholders experience. By investigating a cryptocurrency chatbot (Brokerbot) that distributed information on cryptocurrency news and investments, we explored social tensions of trust between stakeholders, namely the bot’s developers, users, and the bot itself. We found that trust in Brokerbot and in the cryptocurrency ecosystem are two conjoined, but separate challenges that users and developers approached in different ways. We discuss the challenging, dual-role of a Brokerbot as an object of trust as a chatbot while simultaneously being a mediator of trust in cryptocurrency, which exposes the social-technical gap of trust. Lastly, we elaborate on trust as a negotiated social process that people shape and are shaped by through emerging ecologies of interlinked technologies like blockchain and conversational interfaces.
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Marche, Claudio, and Michele Nitti. "A Binary Trust Game for the Internet of Things." IoT 2, no. 1 (January 27, 2021): 50–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/iot2010004.
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The IoT is transforming the ordinary physical objects around us into an ecosystem of information that will enrich our lives. The key to this ecosystem is the cooperation among the devices, where things look for other things to provide composite services for the benefit of human beings. However, cooperation among nodes can only arise when nodes trust the information received by any other peer in the system. Previous efforts on trust were concentrated on proposing models and algorithms to manage the level of trustworthiness. In this paper, we focus on modelling the interaction between trustor and trustee in the IoT and on proposing guidelines to efficiently design trust management models. Simulations show the impacts of the proposed guidelines on a simple trust model.
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BELQASMI, Sabrine. "Foreign Direct Investment’s Trust in Moroccan Competitiveness Poles: A Case Study of the Automotive Industry in Tangier." Business Management and Strategy 9, no. 1 (June 13, 2018): 152. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/bms.v9i1.12969.
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Given the need to diversify its activities to revitalize its economy, and with the ambition of becoming a preferred destination for foreign direct investment (FDI), Morocco has put in place a package of measures and reforms, and opted for a policy Creation of clusters and competitiveness poles based on the local specificities of its territory.In this context, the government launched the "National Pact for Industrial Emergence" (2009-2015) [and subsequently the "Industrial Acceleration Plan" (2014-2020)] which aims at the installation of the Integrated Industrial Platforms (2IP) which are the Moroccan version of competitiveness poles, dedicated to the Moroccan trades of the world, and offered under incentive conditions to domestic and international investors (FDIs) in order to form a business ecosystem where the interaction between actors requires a relationship dynamic based on trust.By using a qualitative method based on the case study, we study in this paper, this relational dynamic, on a sample of 15 companies from the automotive industry in Tangier, using the three components of the theoretical grid of Zucker (1986): characteristic-based Trust, relational trust, institutional trust, highlighting the issue of the contribution of trust to the emergence of the business ecosystem Tangier city as an automotive competitiveness pole,The results obtained clearly show that two of the three components of our reading grid are simultaneously intertwined within our business ecosystem, namely institutional trust and characteristic-based trust with dominance of the first confirming the trust of FDI in Moroccan institutions, and that this trust is fostered by Cultural Specificities of the country.
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MATTILA, VILMA, PRATEEK DWIVEDI, PRATIK GAURI, and DHANRAJ DADHICH. "HARDWARE ROOT OF TRUST BASED TPM: THE INHERENT OF 5IRECHAIN SECURITY." International Journal of Social Sciences and Management Review 05, no. 03 (2022): 248–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.37602/ijssmr.2022.5319.
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The hardware root of trust is already a critical component of the security architecture of enterprise and government networks that allows for efficiently deployed and managed data protection across the entire data life cycle. For all these reasons, the TPM will be a major area of attention for security professionals today and tomorrow. The 5ire ecosystem ensures that all the nodes in the blockchain ecosystem establish a certain level of trust. A hardware root of trust based on the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is introduced for this purpose. A TPM device will allow the 5ire nodes to remotely attest the devices for any malicious code.
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Um, Lee, Lee, and Yoon. "Design and Implementation of a Trust Information Management Platform for Social Internet of Things Environments." Sensors 19, no. 21 (October 29, 2019): 4707. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19214707.
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As the vast amount of data in social Internet of Things (IoT) environments considering interactions between IoT and people is accumulated and processed through cloud and big data technologies, the services that utilize them are applied in various fields. The trust between IoT devices and their data is recognized as the core of IoT ecosystem creation and growth. Connection with suspicious IoT devices may pose a risk to services and system operation. Therefore, it is essential to analyze and manage trust information for devices, services, and people, as well as to provide the trust information to the other devices or users that need it. This paper presents a trust information management framework which contains a generic IoT reference model with trust capabilities to achieve the goal of converged trust information management. Additionally, a trust information management platform (TIMP) consisting of trust agents, trust information brokers, and trust information management systems has been proposed, which aims to provide trustworthy and safe interactions among people, virtual objects, and physical things. Implementing and deploying a TIMP enables a trustworthy ecosystem to be built while activating social IoT businesses by reducing transaction costs, as well as by eliminating the uncertainties in the use of social IoT services and data transactions.
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Liu, Gordon, Lukman Aroean, and Wai Wai Ko. "A business ecosystem perspective of supply chain justice practices." International Journal of Operations & Production Management 39, no. 9/10 (December 6, 2019): 1122–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijopm-09-2018-0578.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of supply chain (SC) justice practices in shared value-supplier delivery performance relationship and the contingent role of trust in SC ecosystem operation. Design/methodology/approach The authors collect and analyze dyadic survey data from a marina resort SC ecosystem in Indonesia. Findings The results suggest the differential moderating effects of two types of perceived SC justice – perceived procedural justice and perceived interactional justice – on the relationship between shared value and supplier delivery performance. More specifically, we find that perceived procedural justice strengthens the shared value-supplier delivery performance relationship, but that perceived interactional justice weakens such a relationship. Furthermore, the findings demonstrate a positive three-way interaction effect between shared value, perceived SC justice and trust on supplier delivery performance. Originality/value The study is the first to introduce the role of SC justice practices in SC ecosystem operation. The authors examine how shared value interacts with perceived SC justice and trust in order to determine supplier delivery performance.
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Almosov, Aleksandr, Svetlana Bondareva, Oksana Darelina, Sofya Potomova, and Elena Timacheva. "Peculiarities of development of digital financial ecosystem." SHS Web of Conferences 109 (2021): 01004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202110901004.
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The development of information society based on creating digital information channels fosters the expansion of virtual interaction of the participants of social relations. It gives rise to technological transformation of financial infrastructure and fosters related changes in other spheres of economy and social life. This research is aimed at finding out peculiarities of forming and developing digital financial microsystems and determining possible scenarios of the development of the Russian national financial ecosystem. The analysis of the statistical data has shown that developing digital technologies leads to the transformation of financial services consumer behaviour. They move from off-line environment with cash payments to the on-line service with non-cash settlements predominance and distant interaction. The trust in fintech-companies and digital financial services is constantly increasing. The caried-out analysis has shown that digitalization of financial sector increases its financial accessibility and fosters poverty reduction (Wang, Yang, Chiu & Lin, 2020) and provides economic growth (Siddik & Kabiraj, 2020). It forms the basis for the transformation of financial architecture and the expansion of digital financial ecosystems in Russia. On the basis of world experience as well as Russian practice, the authors determined the elements and principles of digital financial ecosystem development, identified types of forming and levels of ecosystems functioning.The authors considered two variants of forming the national digital financial ecosystem that differ in the form of interaction of state and private ecosystems functioning. The authors considered two variants of forming the national digital financial ecosystem that differ in the form of interaction of state and private ecosystems. The obtained conclusions are important for making project decisions by the authorities, financial organizations and technological companies.
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Platt, Jodyn, and Paige Nong. "An Ecosystem Approach to Earning and Sustaining Trust in Health Care—Too Big to Care." JAMA Health Forum 4, no. 1 (January 13, 2023): e224882. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2022.4882.
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Gambarov, Vusal, Debora Sarno, Xhimi Hysa, Mario Calabrese, and Alberto Bilotta. "The role of loyalty programs in healthcare service ecosystems." TQM Journal 29, no. 6 (October 9, 2017): 899–919. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tqm-02-2017-0019.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of patient loyalty programs in healthcare environment, generally considered as a way to engage patients and potentially increase the perception of service quality of healthcare systems, but not systematically analyzed at the state of the art. Design/methodology/approach The Service Dominant logic and, in particular, the service ecosystem construct are adopted and integrated with relevant literature references and empirical studies on a sample of patients. Loyalty programs are interpreted as institutions coordinating actors of the healthcare service ecosystem. Findings A conceptual model linking loyalty programs to patients and healthcare providers’ co-creation practices, engagement, satisfaction, trust, and perception of service quality is build and explained based on literature and a case study, finding that loyalty programs can strengthen the adaptability and the well-being of a healthcare service ecosystem. Practical implications This contribution can have a significant impact on the design of new and the evolution of current healthcare service ecosystem, providing interesting insights to practitioners on the topic of loyalty programs, both for their development and their benefits. Originality/value The paper revised previous healthcare service ecosystems and highlights the role of the loyalty program institution at each level and between levels of the ecosystem.
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Ruotsalainen, Pekka, and Bernd Blobel. "Health Information Systems in the Digital Health Ecosystem—Problems and Solutions for Ethics, Trust and Privacy." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 9 (April 26, 2020): 3006. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17093006.
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Digital health information systems (DHIS) are increasingly members of ecosystems, collecting, using and sharing a huge amount of personal health information (PHI), frequently without control and authorization through the data subject. From the data subject’s perspective, there is frequently no guarantee and therefore no trust that PHI is processed ethically in Digital Health Ecosystems. This results in new ethical, privacy and trust challenges to be solved. The authors’ objective is to find a combination of ethical principles, privacy and trust models, together enabling design, implementation of DHIS acting ethically, being trustworthy, and supporting the user’s privacy needs. Research published in journals, conference proceedings, and standards documents is analyzed from the viewpoint of ethics, privacy and trust. In that context, systems theory and systems engineering approaches together with heuristic analysis are deployed. The ethical model proposed is a combination of consequentialism, professional medical ethics and utilitarianism. Privacy enforcement can be facilitated by defining it as health information specific contextual intellectual property right, where a service user can express their own privacy needs using computer-understandable policies. Thereby, privacy as a dynamic, indeterminate concept, and computational trust, deploys linguistic values and fuzzy mathematics. The proposed solution, combining ethical principles, privacy as intellectual property and computational trust models, shows a new way to achieve ethically acceptable, trustworthy and privacy-enabling DHIS and Digital Health Ecosystems.
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Tsatsou, Panayiota, Silvia Elaluf-Calderwood, and Jonathan Liebenau. "Towards a Taxonomy for Regulatory Issues in a Digital Business Ecosystem in the EU." Journal of Information Technology 25, no. 3 (September 2010): 288–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/jit.2009.22.
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This article addresses the role of trust and regulation where small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) In the European Union (EU) make use of e-business in a digital business ecosystem (DBE). We argue that In order for digital business to develop among entrepreneurs In the EU and within different industry sectors and geographical locations, trust and regulation are of critical Importance. The article assesses the importance of this argument and focuses on the Interplay of regulatory and trust-based issues that need to be accommodated before one can expect SMEs to engage in e-business supported within a DBE environment. It then presents a taxonomy that addresses key regulatory issues and fosters trust. The article proposes the taxonomy as the vehicle for the simplification of a bewildering array of laws, standards, norms and expectations, as well as for the elimination of regulatory overlap and conflict. The contribution of the taxonomy is demonstrated in the last section of the article, where it is empirically tested and applied to SMEs which participated In the EU-funded DBE project.
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Pujari, Chetana, Balachandra Muniyal, and Chandrakala C. B. "A decentralized consensus application using blockchain ecosystem." International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) 10, no. 6 (December 1, 2020): 6399. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v10i6.pp6399-6411.
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The consensus is a critical operation of any decision-making process.
It involves a set of eligible members; whose decision need to be honored by taking their acknowledgment before making any decision. The traditional consensus process follows centralized architecture, the members need to rely on and trust this architecture. The proposed system aims to develop a secure decentralized consensus application in the untrusted environment by making use of blockchain technology along with smart contract and interplanetary file system (IPFS).
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Musakwa, Walter, Trynos Gumbo, Gaynor Paradza, Ephraim Mpofu, Nesisa Analisa Nyathi, and Ntlakala B. Selamolela. "Partnerships and Stakeholder Participation in the Management of National Parks: Experiences of the Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe." Land 9, no. 11 (October 22, 2020): 399. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land9110399.
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National parks play an important role in maintaining natural ecosystems which are important sources of income and livelihood sustenance. Most national parks in Southern Africa are managed by their states. Before 2007, Gonarezhou National Park was managed by the Zimbabwe Parks Management and Wildlife Authority, which faced challenges in maintaining its biodiversity, community relations and infrastructure. However, in 2017 the Frankfurt Zoological Society and the Zimbabwe Parks Management and Wildlife Authority formed an innovative partnership under the Gonarezhou Conservation Trust (GCT). This study examines the relationship between GCT management, Gonarezhou National Park stakeholders and communities as well as the impact of the relationship on biodiversity and ecosystems. The study also highlights challenges faced and lessons learned in managing Gonarezhou as a protected area. To obtain the information, key informant interviews, Landsat satellite imagery, secondary data from previous studies and government sources were utilized. The results indicate that the concerted efforts of the Gonarezhou Conservation Trust to manage the park are starting to bear fruit in improving biodiversity conservation, ecosystem management and engaging communities. However, challenges such as governance obstacles, problematic stakeholder management, maintaining trust in community relations, ensuring sustainability, managing the adverse impacts of climate change and human-wildlife conflicts must still be navigated to ensure the park’s sustainable management. Notwithstanding challenges, we argue that a partnership arrangement such as the Gonarezhou Conservation Trust is a desirable model that can be applied in national parks in Zimbabwe and Africa for better biodiversity management and tourism.
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Majava, Jukka, Tuomo Kinnunen, Del Foit, and Pekka Kess. "An intermediary as a trust enabler in a spatial business ecosystem." International Journal of Innovation and Learning 20, no. 2 (2016): 199. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijil.2016.077845.
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Yu, Bin, Jarod Wright, Surya Nepal, Liming Zhu, Joseph Liu, and Rajiv Ranjan. "IoTChain: Establishing Trust in the Internet of Things Ecosystem Using Blockchain." IEEE Cloud Computing 5, no. 4 (July 2018): 12–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mcc.2018.043221010.
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STALLMAN, Heidi R., and Harvey S. JAMES. "FARMERS’ WILLINGNESS TO COOPERATE IN ECOSYSTEM SERVICE PROVISION: DOES TRUST MATTER?" Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics 88, no. 1 (August 29, 2016): 5–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/apce.12147.
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SULISTYORINI, IIN SUMBADA, ERNY POEDJIRAHAJOE, LIES RAHAYU WIJAYANTI FAIDA, and RIS HADI PURWANTO. "Social capital role in the utilization of mangrove ecosystem service for ecotourism on Kutai National Park, East Kalimantan, Indonesia." Bonorowo Wetlands 8, no. 2 (December 1, 2018): 63–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.13057/bonorowo/w080202.
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Abstract. Sulistyorini IS, Poedjirahajoe E, Faida LRW, Purwanto RH. 2018. Social capital role in the utilization of mangrove ecosystem service for ecotourism on Kutai National Park, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Bonorowo Wetlands 2: 61-68. Social capital has an important role in mangrove ecosystem preservation. Changes to mangrove ecosystem services can affect elements of social capital. Ecotourism is one of the alternatives that can be developed in the mangrove area in the National Park. The purpose of the study was to give an overview of the correlation between several elements of social capital in supporting ecotourism in mangrove areas. This study was conducted in five villages in East Kutai Regency, East Kalimantan, namely Singa Geweh, Sangkima, Teluk Singkama, Teluk Pandan and Kandolo. There were 530 respondents from the five villages involved as informants or resource persons. The data were analyzed by Sequal Equation Modeling Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS) method with SmartPLS. Based on the initial assessment by the scoring method, five social capital, i.e., trust, networking, community involvement, social norm and concern to mangrove had low criteria to support ecotourism in Kutai National Park (KNP) mangrove area. According to SEM-PLS analysis of the social capital variables, community involvement, social norms and trust had negative effect on the ecotourism. Trust and community involvement were relatively low in the four villages (Singa Geweh, Sangkima, Teluk Singkama, and Kandolo). They were associated with social norms. On the other hand, concern to mangrove, education and income levels and networking had positive effect and power to support ecosystem service of mangrove for ecotourism.
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Zarifis, Alex, and Luis A. Castro. "The NFT Purchasing Process and the Challenges to Trust at Each Stage." Sustainability 14, no. 24 (December 9, 2022): 16482. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su142416482.
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The unique features of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) are becoming increasingly appealing as we spend more of our time online. This increased popularity is nevertheless not free of controversies, and there is a lack of clarity over the final form this digital asset will take. While there are some early adopters, the whole NFT ecosystem will have to be clarified for wider adoption, particularly the purchasing process. This research evaluates a model of the purchasing process of NFTs and the role of trust in this process. The validated model identified that the purchasing process of NFTs has four stages and each stage is affected by trust: (1) Trust in the cryptocurrency wallet, (2) trust in the cryptocurrency purchase, (3) trust in the NFT marketplace, and (4) trust in aftersales services.
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Ooms, Ward, Marjolein C. J. Caniëls, Nadine Roijakkers, and Dieudonnee Cobben. "Ecosystems for smart cities: tracing the evolution of governance structures in a dutch smart city initiative." International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal 16, no. 4 (February 8, 2020): 1225–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11365-020-00640-7.
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Abstract Smart cities use integrated information and communication technology in order to help their citizens and organizations deal with the challenges of urbanization, safety, and sustainability. Smart cities need complex forms of governance involving a great variety of actors. The aim of this study is to illustrate how elements of governance structures in smart city ecosystems evolve over time, and to understand in which way these elements enable or inhibit the success of such ecosystems in different phases of evolution. We draw on the ecosystem literature and the smart city literature to identify governance aspects relevant to projects with multiple stakeholders. We illustrate our framework with extensive empirical evidence from an in-depth single case study of a smart city initiative in The Netherlands. We find that the use of specific governance elements varies across the phases of evolution of the smart city ecosystem. In the initiation phase, governance structures aimed at strengthening the internal relations are key. In this phase, elements such as trust, commitment, and common goals are important as they help to create a common ground. In the growth phase, the ecosystem focuses on establishing external relations with other parties, such as competitors and suppliers. In this phase, governance elements such a co-creation strategy and a dedicated organization for promotion gain importance, as these elements facilitate communication with external parties.
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Lopuschnyak, H., N. Chala, and O. Poplavska. "Socio-economic determinants of the ecosystem of sustainable development of Ukraine." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 915, no. 1 (November 1, 2021): 012019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/915/1/012019.
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Abstract Now the world has felt the effects of events (pandemic, digitalization, etc.), which provoked a change in the socio-economic ecosystem, which the authors propose to understand as a set of objects and subjects, and grouped according to certain interests, including on professional interests related to the definition of priorities and directions of adaptation of society and the state to the existing environment, which includes rules, laws, moral and ethical norms, and thus forms a single whole with them. Realizing the irreversibility of these events and their consequences, it becomes obvious that the transformation of national ecosystems is accelerating, especially under the influence of the ecological program. Thus, the process of adaptation to the new ecosystem of state development and ensuring its sustainability actualizes the study of determinants of socio-economic nature. The author’s research, based on his own methodology, proves that the key factors in ensuring the sustainability of this ecosystem are compliance with high standards of quality of life, maintaining partnerships and public trust in various institutions, taking into account various aspects of security (individual to collective), assessment of the present and forecasting the future.
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Carroll, Noel. "Modelling the Dynamics of Trust across a Cloud Brokerage Environment." Information Resources Management Journal 28, no. 1 (January 2015): 17–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/irmj.2015010102.
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The globalised nature of cloud computing presents us with new challenges towards the development of effective business relationships across a dynamic service ecosystem. While availing of additional service capabilities, organisations are tasked with managing unfamiliar relationships with unfamiliar cloud service providers to generate increased business value. This calls for more attention towards the concept of trust within a cloud service environment. Cloud computing presents new economic and flexible business and technological models which supports the co-creation nature of service quality and ultimately business value. This research examined various methods to assess service quality and service capability assessment. During the course of this work, the author has identified the need to revisit the concept of ‘trust' within a cloud computing context and prescribe a method to model its complexity. The objective of this paper is to argue that, while cloud computing allows organisations to avail of increased service capabilities; it challenges the concept of trust. To support this argument the author presents the Cloud Services Trust Model to explain the dynamics of trust. In doing so, it introduces a notion of a distributed relational structure in service value co-creation. The paper also draws on theoretical developments to highlight the fundamental changes in the nature of service provision and how they impact on the assessment of service value and service quality. The author supports the need for greater transparency in the move towards greater accountability in the cloud ecosystem. The paper applies social network analysis (SNA) to model the trust relationships of a cloud brokerage environment.
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Kurdi, Heba, Bushra Alshayban, Lina Altoaimy, and Shada Alsalamah. "TrustyFeer: A Subjective Logic Trust Model for Smart City Peer-to-Peer Federated Clouds." Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 2018 (2018): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1073216.
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Cloud computing plays a major role in smart cities development by facilitating the delivery of various services in an efficient and effective manner. In a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) federated clouds ecosystem, multiple Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) collaborate and share services among them when experiencing a shortage in certain resources. Hence, incoming service requests to this specific resource can be delegated to other members. Nevertheless, the lack of preexisting trust relationship among CSPs in this distributed environment can affect the quality of service (QoS). Therefore, a trust management system is required to assist trustworthy peers in seeking reliable communication partners. We address this challenge by proposing TrustyFeer, a trust management system that allows peers to evaluate the trustworthiness of other peers based on subjective logic opinions, formulated using peers’ reputations and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). To demonstrate the utility of TrustyFeer, we evaluate the performance of our method against two long-standing trust management systems. The simulation results show that TrustyFeer is more robust in decreasing the percentage of services that do not conform to SLAs and increasing the success rate of exchanged services by good CSPs conforming to SLAs. This should provide a trustworthy federated clouds ecosystem for a better, more sustainable future.
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Kovalchuk, Julia A., and Igor M. Stepnov. "Managing industrial ecosystems in a united digital space." Market economy problems, no. 3 (2022): 107–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.33051/2500-2325-2022-3-107-121.
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Subject/topic. The article presents an original assessment of the development of interaction management systems in modern ecosystems in the context of industrial development and the formation of a united digital space. Goal. The research aims to substantiate approaches to the development of conceptual solutions for the effective management of industrial ecosystems. Methodology. A critical analysis of the spread of the ecosystem approach for integration in industry in the presence of general management patterns is carried out. Results. The factors of formation of a new management model in a united digital space are determined: historical heritage, decentralization/centralization, duality of the management model, feedback, services, cyclicity, technologies, management virtualization, digital trust and digital responsibility, architecture of management structures. The dual nature of new processes is substantiated, when a single system forms two spheres of management (the development management system itself and the interaction management system), interconnected by feedback. It is shown that for an effective production ecosystem, the level of formation of value chains remains the prerogative of participants, which fundamentally distinguishes the ecosystem approach from the cluster approach. The potential of the ecosystem model as an infrastructure or service model, as opposed to a cluster product model, has been established. The technological aspect of management is highlighted, which is based on the property of modern technologies to separate the control and transformational parts, presenting the possibilities of technology management in a digital environment, which creates more effective integration into a united digital space and the inclusion of augmented reality technologies in interaction with cyber-physical systems that ensure the information reliability of managed objects. Conclusions. The differences of the management system in the classical, cluster and ecosystem models are established and a conceptual vision of the possibilities of updating it is formed, taking into account the identified ideas about the structure of interaction in the ecosystem and management efficiency criteria (metrics).
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Tade, Oludayo, and Oluwatosin Adeniyi. "Dimensions of Electronic Fraud and Governance of Trust in Nigeria’s Cashless Ecosystem." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 64, no. 16 (June 13, 2020): 1717–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624x20928028.
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A negative outcome of the nascent cashless policy in Nigeria has been persistent electronic banking fraud (e-fraud). Fraud occurrence in any financial space indicates insecurity and loopholes being exploited by fraudsters. This underscores the importance of trust governance in electronic banking and its centrality in a transiting cashless economy like Nigeria. Against this background, we investigated e-banking fraud and the role trust governance plays in both the adoption and refusal to migrate and use electronic banking in Nigeria. Using qualitative methods (in-depth and key informant interviews) of data collection, 30 participants were purposively selected and in some instances reached through the snowball and referral methods. Findings showed internal, external, and collaborative dimensions of e-fraud. Experiences of fraud reportedly affected adoption and migration of bank customers to e-banking platforms. Although weak governance mechanism was reported, banks nonetheless are embracing security mechanisms such as sending SCAM alert messages to customers, while shaming and sack of compromised staff were employed as within-bank measures to secure the confidence of customers in the evolving financial ecosystem.
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Porras-Paez, Andrea, and Jana Schmutzler. "Orchestrating an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in an emerging country: The lead actor’s role from a social capital perspective." Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit 34, no. 8 (December 2019): 767–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269094219896269.
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During the recent years, the question of whether an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem emerges organically or is man-made has been disputed. This paper explores the case of an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in a developing country. We argue that in the context of lagging industrial development and weak institutions, a lead actor needs to step in to aid the emergence of an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. We argue that only a locally embedded actor who has the resource endowment and the legitimacy to do so can assume such a role. By applying social capital theory, we show that deliberate strategies by this lead actor to densify the social network within the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem will assist in establishing trust and future collaboration, which will result in productive entrepreneurship.
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Sitorus, Henry, and Hamdani Harahap. "Social Capital Development Model in the Coastal Ecosystem Conservation Strategy of Sibolga City and Central Tapanuli Regency, North Sumatra Province." Journal of Social Interactions and Humanities 1, no. 3 (December 1, 2022): 167–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.55927/jsih.v1i3.1943.
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Deep Ecology has already spread around of scholars as mainstream perspective and ethic in environment conservation system. Indeed, it is required as the specific strategy for the implementation coastal ecosystem conservation approach. Ihis research is aim to found some social capital aspect in coastal community i.e social trust degrees, collective consciences, social values and norms, networking of social institution that need for coastal ecosystem conservation strategy. Based on this research, some aspects of Tapian Nauli coastal ecosystem should be conducted by co-option of local government, communities, corporations, and social organization partnership role to apply social capital capacity manner which is significant to reduct the coastal ecosystem degradation as well as a conservation strategy in Kota Sibolga and Kabupaten Tapanuli Tengah.
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Al-Zoubi, Abdallah, Tariq Saadeddin, and Mamoun Dmour. "An Ethereum Private Network for Data Management in Blockchain of Things Ecosystem." International Journal of Online and Biomedical Engineering (iJOE) 19, no. 01 (January 17, 2023): 38–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijoe.v19i01.35261.
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The advent of blockchain technology in the development and design of smart internet of things (IoT) systems offers the opportunity to secure and transfer data flow, preserve its integrity, and provide transparent mechanisms for its management. Blockchain has actually attracted applications in vital fields because it provides many advantages over centralized database such as traceability, confidentiality, availability and trust. A private network offers the most secure and peer-restricted environment for big data flow, specifically in IoT ecosystems. An integrated blockchain-IoT ecosystem in which three Raspberry Pi 4 nodes communicate and interact in a closed loop to control smart applications via an Ethereum platform in a secure and an efficiently emulated environment is piloted. The proposed blockchain of things (BCoT) ecosystem adds a new layer to the physical, network and application layers of a typical IoT architecture. The concept of a fully decentralized private Ethereum BCoT network may find applications in several fields that call for the removal of single-point of failure and ensures data integrity and transparency.
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Dobrowolski, Zbysław, and Tomasz Szejner. "Enhancing Innovation Through Implementation of the Comprehensive Approach to Nurturing the Compliance Culture of the Worldwide Innovation Ecosystem." Journal of Intercultural Management 11, no. 2 (June 1, 2019): 21–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/joim-2019-0008.
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Abstract Objective: The innovative ecosystems consist of a large number of complementary elements, and their effectiveness depends on how well the elements interact with each other. Corruption erodes public trust, which is necessary to enable the cooperation of entities. The aim of the research is to formulate the comprehensive approach to nurturing the compliance culture of the innovation ecosystem. Methodology: This research study was realized with non-empirical (theoretical) research, which seeks solutions to problems using existing knowledge as its source. Prototyping of a new anti-corruption approach was based on usage of application of existing knowledge and existing experience resulting from the implementation of Norton Kaplan balanced scorecard and Kotter’s process for leading change. Findings: It was found that the balanced scorecard of compliance culture in innovation ecosystem might enhance anti-corruption outcome. Identification of nine anti-corruption variables and using them to plan and realize corruption prevention might influence the anti-corruption effectiveness. Value Added: Model of acceleration of anti-corruption changes in the organization was proposed. Recommendations: Proposed original, unique comprehensive approach to anti-corruption within organizations will help to achieve the positive effects faster, which will enhance positive anti-corruption trends within and outside the innovation ecosystem.
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Niemi, Hannele. "Education Reforms for Equity and Quality: An Analysis from an Educational Ecosystem Perspective with Reference to Finnish Educational Transformations." Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal 11, no. 2 (June 23, 2021): 13–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.26529/cepsj.1100.
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The article starts with the serious question of why educational reforms do not lead to better learning. Although access to education has increased remarkably, the quality of education can be very low. The reality is that by 2030 there will be 800 million young people who do not have basic skills in reading and math. The answers will be sought from the concept of the educational ecosystem and how different subsystems, such as curriculum system, evaluation systems, teacher education policy, and the labour market, should be interconnected, and the systemic changes supported by all these subsystems. The basic conditions are that different actors and stakeholders work in collaboration, there are active interactions within and between different subsystems for supporting both equity and quality in education. Educational reforms are complex processes and need diverse partners and governance in which trust is present. The article also provides a brief case description in Finnish contexts of how educational reforms have been implemented in the frame of the ecosystem concept. In the end, the article summarises how educational ecosystems could help in overcoming global learning crises.
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Rainie, Lee. "Networked Trust & the Future of Media." Daedalus 151, no. 4 (2022): 124–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_01947.
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Abstract Americans believe the civic information ecosystem is collapsing. Trust in journalism has declined in the past generation, and news media now draw polarized audiences. Public confidence in social media as a news and information source has never been strong, and people today say social media firms cannot be trusted to be objective or impartial information curators of political discourse or stewards of their users’ personal data. This adds up to public despair about disinformation and misinformation that impinges on the way expert knowledge is evaluated and deeply affects public life. A reckoning for both the news media and social media is at hand: For journalists, the existential challenge centers on the viability of their underlying business model. For social media firms, “techlash” might force them to change their structures and practices. Under the circumstances, networked individuals will determine the contours of trust in media.
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Eklund, Peter, Jeff Thom, Tim Wray, and Edward Dou. "Location Based Context-Aware Services in a Digital Ecosystem with Location Privacy." Journal of Cases on Information Technology 13, no. 2 (April 2011): 49–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jcit.2011040104.
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This case discusses the architecture and application of privacy and trust issues in the Connected Mobility Digital Ecosystem (CMDE) for the University of Wollongong’s main campus community. The authors describe four mobile location-sensitive, context-aware applications (app(s)) that are designed for iPhones: a public transport passenger information app; a route-based private vehicle car-pooling app; an on-campus location-based social networking app; and a virtual art-gallery tour guide app. These apps are location-based and designed to augment user interactions within their physical environments. In addition, location data provided by the apps can be used to create value-added services and optimize overall system performance. The authors characterize this socio-technical system as a digital ecosystem and explain its salient features. Using the University of Wollongong’s campus and surrounds as the ecosystem’s community for the case studies, the authors present the architectures of these four applications (apps) and address issues concerning privacy, location-identity and uniform standards developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
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Quintas-Soriano, Cristina, Dainee M. Gibson, Jodi S. Brandt, María D. López-Rodríguez, Javier Cabello, Pedro A. Aguilera, and Antonio J. Castro. "An interdisciplinary assessment of private conservation areas in the Western United States." Ambio 50, no. 1 (February 21, 2020): 150–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-020-01323-x.
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AbstractConservation easements are the fastest growing private conservation strategy in the United States. However, mechanisms to assess private land conservation as well as their support by the general public are not well understood. This study uses the ecosystem services framework for assessing existing private lands in Idaho and identifies areas for future conservation easements. Using conservation targets of the land trust as a guide for selecting ecosystem services, we (a) mapped the spatial delivery of conservation targets across public and private lands, (b) explored public awareness in terms of social importance and vulnerability, and (c) mapped future priority areas by characterizing conservation bundles. We found that public lands provided the highest levels of conservation targets, and we found no difference in conservation target provision between private areas and conservation easements. The spatial characterization of conservation target bundles identified potential future priority areas for conservation easements, which can guide planning of land trust conservation efforts.
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Kokthi, Elena, Elda Muço, Mélanie Requier-Desjardins, and Fatmir Guri. "Social capital as a determinant for raising ecosystem services awareness - an application to an Albanian pastoral ecosystem." Landscape Online 95 (December 30, 2021): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3097/lo.202195.
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This paper aims to map the ecosystem services (ES) provided by a reputed agropastoral ecosystem in the south of Albania and ascertain whether social capital affects the level of importance attributed to them. A perception analysis of both buyers and sellers of ES within the pastoral ecosystem is undertaken. The pastoral ecosystem is mainly evaluated for cultural services such as tradition, enhancing the area’s image, and environment ES. The strong inclination towards cultural ES and socioeconomic services indicates a lack of awareness of both buyers and sellers of ES in the local community regarding the environmental aspects of their ecosystem. However, participants showing a higher radius of trust with high linking social capital are more likely to confer very high importance to environmental services. Similarly, the cultural ES (traditional aspect) of the pastoral ecosystem is affected by cognitive and structural social capital. These are interesting findings for public policymaking concerning the opportunity to develop market transaction ES. Its development is more ground-based and effective if participation and civic engagement, especially the Linking dimension, is enhanced in the pastoral community.
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Tyng Teh, Soo, and Aini Aman. "Managing Coopetition in Business Ecosystem - A study of the Printing Industry in Malaysia." Nexo Revista Científica 35, no. 03 (September 30, 2022): 845–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/nexo.v35i03.15014.
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Coopetition involves multidisciplinary actors in a competition and cooperation phenomenon simultaneously. There is a large research gap on how a coopetition process is established and managed in a business ecosystem. Through the in-depth analysis of a single printing business ecosystem in Malaysia, this paper finds coopetition is common as the way of doing business among the micro, small and medium sized firms in one industrial park growing into a popular printing ecosystem in Selangor state of Malaysia. This paper identifies the sources of coopetition, challenges faced by different firms in the same industry and the mechanism of these firms surviving in this business ecosystem. Through a case study, our findings showed that informal cooperation more likely than a structured coopetition to achieve short-term success yet a long term resilience for small medium enterprises. The possible tension in coopetition is reduced when trust and friendliness is available to maintain the business ecosystem position. The interchangeable supplier-customer relationships facilities value co-creation through exchange of resources and capabilities in the geographic, technological and market overlap business ecosystem. The paper suggests the coopetition strategy is the base strategy to build competitiveness of individual firm located in a business ecosystem.
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Andreeva, Andriyana, and Galina Yolova. "ECOSYSTEM OF TRUST IN THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLEGENCE IN THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP." LAW AND THE BUSINESS IN THE CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY 4, no. 1 (2021): 364–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.36997/lbcs2021.364.
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Grazhevska, N., and A. Chyhyrynskyi. "DEVELOPMENT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS AS A FACTOR IN THE POST-WAR RECOVERY OF UKRAINE’S ECONOMY." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Economics, no. 219 (2022): 17–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-2667.2022/219-2/3.
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The essence and features of digital ecosystems are studied, and their role in the national economy is revealed. A digital ecosystem is a group of interconnected information technology resources that can function as a whole. The digital ecosystem is a self-organizing digital infrastructure that aims to create a digital environment for networking organizations that supports collaboration, knowledge sharing, development of open and adaptive technologies, and evolutionary business models. The opportunities provided by the use of digital systems for business are analyzed. In particular, the following advantages of digital ecosystems for business are highlighted: dynamism, ability to adapt to global problems and challenges; stimulating demand by offering a set of interconnected products; rapid production of new income streams; lower costs of attracting customers; the ability to track the digital transformation of the enterprise quickly. The main problems of digital ecosystem development in Ukraine at the present stage are considered, in particular, the following: lack of financial resources, low investment activity of economic entities; Insufficient awareness of business entities about the concept and technology of Industry 4.0; weak digital skills of the population; underdeveloped digital infrastructure; obsolescence of equipment in government agencies; lack of standardization of both digital systems and the Internet of Things, which would enable information security at the individual and state levels; low level of cybersecurity and trust of Internet users in the digital economy, low level of development of network economy. Perspective directions of the use of digital ecosystems in the period of post-war recovery of the economy of Ukraine are substantiated. The digitalization of the Ukrainian economy must be carried out in the following areas of development: development of digital knowledge and the market of information and communication technologies; development of digital business environment; development of business access to finance; development of digital skills of the workforce; creating a supportive business culture.
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Pidorycheva, Iryna. "Innovation Ecosystem of Pridneprovsky Economic Region: Actors, their Quality and Completeness." Herald of the Economic Sciences of Ukraine, no. 1(38) (2020): 116–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.37405/1729-7206.2020.1(38).116-130.
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In recent years, interest in the concept of innovation ecosystem has increased significantly in the scientific community: formation processes of innovation ecosystems are exploring at different levels – from virtual to global. This study is devoted to the issues of innovation ecosystems formation at the regional level as the most favorable for innovations. There is no unanimity among scientists as to whether what structural elements and relationships are essential in innovation ecosystems, and what their composition should be. Traditionally, ecosystem actors are divided into Triple Helix or Quadruple Helix models by focusing on institutional sectors, rather than on the functions and roles of actors. To expand the range of innovation ecosystem actors (structural element) and combine them into six sectors, according to the functions and roles performed has been proposed, namely: entrepreneurial, government, scientificeducational, financial support, infrastructural support, public associations. Under this approach, the state of the regional innovation ecosystems across all sector actors in the Pridneprovsky economic region has been analyzed in order to determine their completeness and quality to ensure the integrity and efficiency of ecosystems. Based on the analysis, it has been revealed that the most developed sector actors are entrepreneurial and scientific-educational, with adjustments for their uneven diffusion across the regions, structural imbalance of the industrial complex and the gradual depletion of the human resources of the scientific sphere. It has been predicted these bottlenecks do not reduce the internal reserves of the regions in order to increase the innovativeness and competitiveness of the regional economy. In doing so, such a promising opportunity depends largely on actors in the public sector, financial support sector, and infrastructure support sector. While they are the most critical in terms of both quantity and quality of actors. Emphasis has been given on the exceptional role of the government in innovation ecosystems development, which should consist in creating (promoting the creation) of absent actors, improving the quality of existing and establishing conditions (macroeconomic, institutional, technological) that will support each component of the ecosystems, stimulating their mutual strengthening and cooperation. It has been emphasized that the Ukrainian state needs to develop inclusive institutions, implementing the format of inclusive innovation policy, changing the culture of relations between the government and the public, laying in their basis the principles of openness, trust, and partnership.
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Picone, Ike, and Karen Donders. "Reach or Trust Optimisation? A Citizen Trust Analysis in the Flemish Public Broadcaster VRT." Media and Communication 8, no. 3 (August 24, 2020): 348–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v8i3.3172.
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In democracies, one of Public Service Media’s (PSM) main roles is to inform the public. In a digital news ecosystem, where commercial, citizen, and alternative news sources have multiplied, questions about the ability and need for PSM to fulfil this role are increasingly being raised. While the role of PSM can and should be scrutinized, a too-narrow a focus on an informed citizenry may obfuscate aspects, other than audience reach and objectivity, that are key to this information role, such as trust. Against this background, this article studies whether and to what extent citizens still trust the news and information services of their public broadcaster, asking if that trust is still high, whether there is a difference between groups in the population, and if trust is in line with reach. Based on a representative survey of news users in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking community of Belgium, the article studies the reach and trust scores of the brands of VRT, Flanders’ PSM, and compares them to those of its main competitors, with a specific focus on differences in terms of age, education levels, and political orientation. The results suggest that VRT struggles more than the main commercial players to reach young people and the lower-educated, but still leads when it comes to trust. The data show the continued importance of widening our assessment of PSM beyond market-focused indicators of reach.
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Kontogianni, A. D., and C. J. Emmanouilides. "The cost of a gelatinous future and loss of critical habitats in the Mediterranean." ICES Journal of Marine Science 71, no. 4 (January 22, 2014): 853–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fst194.
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Abstract This paper investigates the economic valuations individuals make about the degradation of the marine ecosystem in the Gulf of Lion, in the western Mediterranean. A choice experiment has been conducted to quantify in monetary terms the social costs associated with two key aspects of degradation of the marine ecosystem: (i) the loss of critical habitats, and (ii) the risk of jellyfish outbreaks. We apply choice models to analyse the preference structure of residents and visitors for alternative ecosystem resilience scenarios. The focus of the modelling approach is on inference about welfare valuations and their relationship to the characteristics of the participants in the choice experiment, their perceptions of the importance of ecosystem services, attitudes to tourism, and trust in environmental policy-making institutions. We detected a number of significant linear and non-linear effects, and discuss the implications of our findings for marine environment protection policies.