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A Socio-Technical Approach to Theorizing on Perceptions of Trustworthiness in Virtual Organizations

Ho, Shuyuan Mary

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Title
A Socio-Technical Approach to Theorizing on Perceptions of Trustworthiness in Virtual Organizations
Author(s)
Ho, Shuyuan Mary
Issue Date
2009-02-08
Keyword(s)
  • Perceived Trustworthiness
  • Virtual Organization
  • Socio-Technical Approach
  • Insider Threats
Date of Ingest
2010-03-23T15:12:23Z
Abstract
This paper presents a socio-technical study about perceptions of human trustworthiness as a key component for countering insider threats in virtual collaborative context. This study focuses on understanding how anomalous behavior can be detected by observers in a close social network. While human observations are fallible, this study adopts the concept of human-observed changes in behavior as analogous to “sensors” on a computer network. Using online team-based game-playing, this study seeks to re-create realistic situations in which human sensors have the opportunity to observe changes in the behavior of a focal individual – in this case a team leader. Four sets of experimental situations are created to test hypotheses. Results of this study may lead to the development of semi-automated or fully-automated behavioral detection systems that attempt to predict the occurrence of malfeasance.
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