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D. Harrison McKnight is a researcher affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their academic work spans several fields within social sciences and business management, focusing on areas such as Digital Marketing and Social Media, Knowledge Management and Sharing, and the Sharing Economy and Platforms. McKnight's contributions also address topics related to Technology Adoption and User Behaviour, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Quality and Supply Management, and Customer Service Quality and Loyalty.

Their research outputs include papers published in respected venues within information systems and management. Among the recent publications are:

  • Trust Change in Information Technology Products, 2020, Journal of Management Information Systems
  • What most influences consumers' intention to use? Different motivation and trust stories for Uber, Airbnb, and Taskrabbit, 2022, European Journal of Information Systems
  • Just Let Me Do My Job!, 2021, ACM SIGMIS Database the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems

These works explore various aspects of trust, motivation, and user behaviour in technology and platform-based services, reflecting McKnight's interdisciplinary approach bridging information systems and organizational behavior.

McKnight collaborates frequently with other scholars, including:

  • Peng Liu
  • Brian T. Pentland
  • John Tripp
  • Nancy K. Lankton
  • Feruzan Irani-Williams

Such collaborations illustrate an engagement with peers across social sciences and management domains, fostering diverse perspectives within their research.

Their publications appear predominantly in journals such as the Journal of Management Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, and ACM SIGMIS Database the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems. These venues demonstrate a focus on both theoretical and applied aspects of management and information systems research.

McKnight's body of work contributes to understanding complex phenomena in organizational behavior, communication, marketing, and information management. The subfields include Sociology and Political Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Communication, Marketing, and Information Systems and Management.

Overall, McKnight's research profile presents a synthesis of interdisciplinary insights into how trust, motivation, and technology intersect within contemporary business and social environments.

Best Publications

  • Developing and Validating Trust Measures for e-Commerce: An Integrative Typology

    D. Harrison McKnight;Vivek Choudhury;Charles Kacmar

  • Initial Trust Formation in New Organizational Relationships

    D. Harrison McKnight;Larry L. Cummings;Norman L. Chervany

  • What Trust Means in E-Commerce Customer Relationships: An Interdisciplinary Conceptual Typology

    D. Harrison McKnight;Norman L. Chervany

  • The impact of initial consumer trust on intentions to transact with a web site: a trust building model

    D. Harrison McKnight;Vivek Choudhury;Charles J. Kacmar

  • Trust and distrust definitions: One bite at a time

    D. Harrison McKnight;Norman L. Chervany

  • THE MEANINGS OF TRUST

    D. Harrison Mcknight;Norman L. Chervany;Hubert H. Humphrey

  • Trust in a specific technology: An investigation of its components and measures

    D. Harrison Mcknight;Michelle Carter;Jason Bennett Thatcher;Paul F. Clay

  • It road warriors: balancing work-family conflict, job autonomy, and work overload to mitigate turnover intentions

    Manju K. Ahuja;Katherine M. Chudoba;Charles J. Kacmar;D. Harrison McKnight

  • Perceived Information Quality in Data Exchanges: Effects on Risk, Trust, and Intention to Use

    Andreas I. Nicolaou;D. Harrison McKnight

  • Technology, Humanness, and Trust: Rethinking Trust in Technology

    Nancy K. Lankton;D. Harrison McKnight;John Tripp

  • Shifting Factors and the Ineffectiveness of Third Party Assurance Seals: A Two‐Stage Model of Initial Trust in a Web Business

    D. Harrison McKnight;Charles J. Kacmar;Vivek Choudhury

  • Dispositional Trust And Distrust Distinctions in Predicting High- and Low-Risk Internet Expert Advice Site Perceptions

    D. Harrison McKnight;Charles J. Kacmar;Vivek Choudhury

  • Transfer From Offline Trust to Key Online Perceptions: An Empirical Study

    Kun Chang Lee;Inwon Kang;D.H. McKnight

  • What is Trust? A Conceptual Analysis and an Interdisciplinary Model

    D. Harrison McKnight;Norman L. Chervany

  • Which reduces IT turnover intention the most: Workplace characteristics or job characteristics?

    D. Harrison McKnight;Brandis Phillips;Bill C. Hardgrave

  • Trust in e-commerce vendors: a two-stage model

    D. Harrison McKnight;Vivek Choudhury;Charles Kacmar

  • Incorporating trust-in-technology into Expectation Disconfirmation Theory

    Nancy K. Lankton;D. Harrison McKnight;Jason Bennett Thatcher

  • Internet anxiety: An empirical study of the effects of personality, beliefs, and social support

    Jason Bennett Thatcher;Misty L. Loughry;Jaejoo Lim;D. Harrison McKnight

  • Conceptualizing trust: a typology and e-commerce customer relationships model

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  • The Role of Trust in Postadoption IT Exploration: An Empirical Examination of Knowledge Management Systems

    Jason Bennett Thatcher;D Harrison McKnight;Elizabeth White Baker;Riza Ergun Arsal

  • Distrust and trust in B2C e-commerce: do they differ?

    D. Harrison McKnight;Vivek Choudhury

  • Reflections on an initial trust-building model

    D. Harrison McKnight;Norman L. Chervany

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason Bennett Thatcher
Jason Bennett Thatcher University of Colorado Boulder
Brian T. Pentland
Brian T. Pentland Michigan State University
Joey F. George
Joey F. George Iowa State University
Fred D. Davis
Fred D. Davis Texas Tech University

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