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Situating trust challenges of online trade

Situating trust challenges of online trade This paper aims to offer an improved understanding of trust challenges in online trade, providing examples of issues that should be addressed for a trustworthy online environment. It also aims to illustrate how records and recordkeeping can contribute in terms of enabling trust and accountability.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on results from a self-ethnographic study of online trade (Engvall, 2017); the results are analyzed further. Kelton, Fleischmann and Wallace’s (2008) model for trust is used to gain a better understanding of the characteristics of the challenges and where they should be addressed.FindingsThis paper recognizes that there are different types of trust challenges at different levels – individual, between clients and businesses and at a societal level – that should be addressed at these levels in different ways.Originality/valueThis paper provides an understanding of trust challenges in the online environment. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Records Management Journal Emerald Publishing

Situating trust challenges of online trade

Records Management Journal , Volume 29 (1/2): 15 – Mar 7, 2019

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Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Copyright
© Emerald Publishing Limited
ISSN
0956-5698
DOI
10.1108/rmj-07-2018-0019
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Abstract

This paper aims to offer an improved understanding of trust challenges in online trade, providing examples of issues that should be addressed for a trustworthy online environment. It also aims to illustrate how records and recordkeeping can contribute in terms of enabling trust and accountability.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on results from a self-ethnographic study of online trade (Engvall, 2017); the results are analyzed further. Kelton, Fleischmann and Wallace’s (2008) model for trust is used to gain a better understanding of the characteristics of the challenges and where they should be addressed.FindingsThis paper recognizes that there are different types of trust challenges at different levels – individual, between clients and businesses and at a societal level – that should be addressed at these levels in different ways.Originality/valueThis paper provides an understanding of trust challenges in the online environment.

Journal

Records Management JournalEmerald Publishing

Published: Mar 7, 2019

Keywords: Sustainability; Trust; Accountability; Online trade

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