Adoption and use of social media in small and medium-sized enterprises

C Meske, S Stieglitz - … -Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation: 6th …, 2013 - Springer
In recent years, social media have been increasingly adopted in enterprises. Enterprises
use social media as an additional way to get in contact with their customers and support …

Exploring social media adoption in small to medium-sized enterprises in Ireland

M Durkin, P McGowan, N McKeown - Journal of Small Business and …, 2013 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address the current deficit in the literature on social
media adoption within a small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) context. The authors adopt …

Social media tools adoption and use by SMEs: An empirical study

SF Wamba, L Carter - Social media and Networking: Concepts …, 2016 - igi-global.com
Despite the recent increase in the adoption and use of social media tools to support firm
operations, very little empirical research focusing on small-and medium-sized enterprises …

[PDF][PDF] Social media adoption: barriers to the strategic use of social media in SMEs

M Beier, K Wagner - 2016 - scholar.archive.org
Social media adoption by firms has generally increased over time; however, little is known
about why small firms do or do not use these digital technologies. Using a survey of 268 …

A role for startups in unleashing the disruptive power of social media

A Ghezzi, L Gastaldi, E Lettieri, A Martini… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
As social media attract increasing attention from executives and find varied applications in
different industries, research on the subject has been investigating the antecedents …

Use and measurement of social media for SMEs

M McCann, A Barlow - Journal of small business and enterprise …, 2015 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to investigate why small-and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs) are using social media and how they should measure its return on …

Managing an organisation's social media presence: An empirical stages of growth model

AQH Chung, P Andreev, M Benyoucef, A Duane… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
The adoption of social media by organisations has proven to be very beneficial; however,
few studies have examined how to manage an organisation's social media adoption and …

Finding the right role for social media in innovation

DL Roberts, FT Piller - MIT Sloan Management Review, 2016 - direct.mit.edu
124 Deborah L. Roberts and Frank T. Piller not realized in practice. To begin with, the use of
social media by companies for new product development lags far behind social media use …

An exploratory investigation of social media adoption by small businesses

W He, FK Wang, Y Chen, S Zha - Information Technology and …, 2017 - Springer
Social media has become an online platform for businesses to market products/services and
to manage customer relationships. While more and more small businesses have jumped on …

Reflections of entrepreneurs of small and medium-sized enterprises concerning the adoption of social media and its impact on performance outcomes: Evidence from …

SZ Ahmad, N Ahmad, ARA Bakar - Telematics and Informatics, 2018 - Elsevier
There have been numerous studies on the adoption of social media among individuals as
well as organizations. Nevertheless, most of these studies were conducted in developed …