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Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of social media
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In this article, the authors present a framework that defines social media by using seven functional building blocks: identity, conversations, sharing, presence, relationships, reputation, and groups, and explain the implications that each block can have for how firms should engage with social media.About:
This article is published in Business Horizons.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 3073 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social media & User-generated content.read more
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Explaining online ambassadorship behaviors on Facebook and LinkedIn
TL;DR: Drawing on boundary theory and organizational citizenship literature, this study shows that self-enhancement motives are important predictors for ambassadorship behaviors on Facebook and LinkedIn.
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Can Social Media Campaigns Backfire? Exploring Consumers' Attitudes and Word-of-Mouth Toward Four Social Media Campaigns and Its Implications on Consumer-Campaign Identification
Denni Arli,Timo Dietrich +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined consumers' preferences toward four social media campaigns and investigated the impact of positive and negative word-of-mouth and social value on consumer-campaign identification.
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Social media in aid of post disaster management
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine tweet posts regarding Typhoon Washi to contend the usefulness of social media and big data as an aid of post-disaster management through topic modelling and content analysis.
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Using social media to recruit global supply chain managers
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate if, and to what degree, social media platforms can be used for the recruitment of global supply chain managers, and they present models of how organizations should move to adopt web-based technologies and the steps needed to engage fully in using social media to recruit global Supply Chain managers.
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The use of social media as a legitimation tool for sustainability reporting: A study of the top 50 Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) listed companies
TL;DR: In this paper, the use of social media for sustainability reporting by the largest Australia companies as a means of seeking legitimacy from stakeholders was examined, and the authors found that those companies which actively used social media were able to seek legitimacy through information disclosure and dialogue with stakeholders.
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Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
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Users of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of Social Media
TL;DR: A classification of Social Media is provided which groups applications currently subsumed under the generalized term into more specific categories by characteristic: collaborative projects, blogs, content communities, social networking sites, virtual game worlds, and virtual social worlds.
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The Search-Transfer Problem: The Role of Weak Ties in Sharing Knowledge across Organization Subunits.
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The Network Paradigm in Organizational Research: A Review and Typology
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