The role of soft information in trust building: Evidence from online social lending

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6101 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 381-395

  Pötzsch, Stefanie ^a   Böhme, Rainer ^a,b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Content Analysis; Empirical Study; Online Social Lending; Personal Data; Privacy; Reciprocity; Social Behavior; Soft Information; Trust Building

Indexed keywords

CONTENT ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; PERSONAL DATA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOFT INFORMATION; TRUST BUILDING;

BUILDINGS;

DATA PRIVACY;

EID: 77954752083     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13869-0_28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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