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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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Co-innovation platform affordances: Developing a conceptual model and measurement instrument
TL;DR: The findings of the study reveal that co-innovation PAs have three distinctive components, namely ideation, collaboration, and communication, and suggest that PAs are most appropriately operationalized as a second-order construct comprising all three components.
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Is Investing in Social Media Really Worth It? How Brand Actions and User Actions Influence Brand Value
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual model was proposed to explore how social media is related to brand value, collecting a unique data set that captures information on user and brand actions on three social media platforms Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, word-of-mouth, and brand value for 87 brands in 17 industries.
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ICT, social media and COVID-19: evidence from informal home-based business community in Kuwait City
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided information on the importance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and social media for the development of informal home-based business (HBBs) community in Kuwait City.
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Mining Blogs And Forums To Understand the Use of Social Media in Customer Co-creation
Wu He,Gongjun Yan +1 more
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Nurturing user creative performance in social media networks
TL;DR: The theory of work performance containing four dimensions (capacity, opportunities, willingness, and performance) is applied to investigate how the capabilities of social network sites enhance user creative performance through collective social capital and information capital for and individual habit of use (willingness) of the user to engage in social learning process.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
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Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
danah boyd,Nicole B. Ellison +1 more
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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.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors combine the concept of weak ties from social network research and the notion of complex knowledge to explain the role of weak links in sharing knowledge across organization subunits.
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The Network Paradigm in Organizational Research: A Review and Typology
Stephen P. Borgatti,Pacey Foster +1 more
TL;DR: This paper reviewed and analyzed the emerging network paradigm in organizational research and developed a set of dimensions along which network studies vary, including direction of causality, levels of analysis, explanatory goals, and explanatory mechanisms.