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  1. Einstein Center Digital Future, TU Berlin, Einsteinufer 17, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Timm Teubner

  2. Institute for Information Systems and Marketing, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fritz-Erler-Str. 23, 76133, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Florian Hawlitschek

  3. School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia

    Marc T. P. Adam

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Teubner, T., Hawlitschek, F. & Adam, M.T.P. Reputation Transfer. Bus Inf Syst Eng 61, 229–235 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-018-00574-z

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