Trust is described as the willingness of a party to be vulnerable to the actions of

another party based on the expectation that the other will perform a particular
action important to the trustor, irrespective of the ability to monitor or control that
other party (Mayer, Davis, & Schoorman, 1995). Trust has been broadly studied in
numerous academic fields. It has been viewed as a set of specific beliefs primarily
associated with benevolence, competence, and integrity of the other party (Chen &
Hung, 2010; Chiu et al., 2010; Doney & Cannon, 1997; Kankanhalli et al., 2005).