The use of social media technologies—such as blogs, wikis, social networking sites, social
tagging, and microblogging—is proliferating at an incredible pace. One area of increasing …

This paper examines how organizations perceive affordances of social media and how they
react to their employees' use of social media through policies, a key means of organizational …

Social media—computer-mediated tools of the Web 2.0 generation that make it possible for
anyone to create, circulate, share, and exchange information in a variety of formats and with …

Social media are increasingly implemented in work organizations as tools for
communication among employees. It is important that we develop an understanding of how …

Traditionally, consumers used the Internet to simply expend content: they read it, they
watched it, and they used it to buy products and services. Increasingly, however, consumers …

Many organizations have started using social media (aka Enterprise 2.0) tools internally to
interact with their employees. A number of companies, including Best Buy and Dell, have …

In this paper, we examine the relation between social media use and the absorptive capacity
of organisations. Over the past 10 years, many organisations have systematically adopted …

In 2007 the results of a groundbreaking study into the adoption of social media within the
Inc. 500, an elite group of the fastest-growing companies within the United States, were …

This paper suggests that social media may be useful for knowledge sharing because they
are leaky pipes for communication-the directionality and content of a particular message is …

Organizations from government departments and corporations to small businesses are
increasingly adopting social media for strategic corporate and organizational …