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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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A mediated–moderated model for social media adoption and small and medium-sized enterprise performance in emerging countries
Understanding the role of social media monitoring in generating external intelligence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a qualitative approach with a multiple embedded case study design to understand the phenomenon of social media monitoring and its outcome for organizations, and used this approach to study how organizations can extract and analyse social media data related to their business.
Electronic Word-of-Mouth Communication and Consumer Behaviour: An Exploratory Study of Danish Social Media Communication Influence
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the use of word-of-mouth communication through social media among a group of Danish consumers, and found that negative messages were perceived as more trustworthy compared to positive messages.
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Extension of TAM by Perceived Interactivity to Understand Usage Behaviors on ACG Social Media Sites
Jui-Hsiang Lee,Chang-Franw Lee +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a concept model was proposed to investigate the prerequisite factors of users' continuance use intention on online social media sites for animation, comics and games (ACG) amateur artists.
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Social media analytics, competitive intelligence, and dynamic capabilities in manufacturing SMEs
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors focus on the effects of social media analytics on four phases of competitive intelligence to improve the dynamic capabilities within manufacturing SMEs and propose how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can enhance their dynamic capabilities through learning mechanisms such as Social media analytics and competitive intelligence processes that include the planning, collection, analysis, and dissemination of information.
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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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