Over the last decade, online social networks have evolved into a global mainstream medium
with increasing social, organizational, and economic impact. This paper provides a …

Organizations increasingly use social media and especially social networking sites (SNS) to
support their marketing agenda, enhance collaboration, and develop new capabilities …

Collaborative consumption websites have enabled consumers to focus on shared access to
products rather than owning them. This study aims at developing a comprehensive …

The wealth of social information presented on Facebook is astounding. While these
affordances allow users to keep up-to-date, they also produce a basis for social comparison …

On online social networks such as Facebook, massive self-disclosure by users has attracted
the attention of Industry players and policymakers worldwide. Despite the Impressive scope …

Online social networks became a global phenomenon with enormous social as well as
economic impact within a few years. Alone, the most popular online social network …

Worldwide social networks, like Facebook, face fierce competition from local platforms when
expanding globally. To remain attractive social network providers need to encourage user …

An overview of the literature on Internet social networking (ISN) is presented. The authors
identify four dominant streams of research and review the key contributions to the field. The …

Web 2.0 empowers online customers and social networks to engage in e-service processes
such as service design, production and marketing. Although the impact of customer …

Originally, human communities were comprised of people who shared a value system and
interpersonal trust (Wiegandt, 2009). The basic motive for belonging to a community has …