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McKenna, Brad 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2219-7508, Vodanovich, Shahper and Fan, Tania
(2016)
I heart you: how businesses are using social media to increase social capital.
In: European, Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS), 2016-06-23 - 2016-06-24.
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Abstract
The popularity of social media is increasing as more social media platforms are produced. Businesses have seen the potential for social media and have changed their business strategies to suit this change. Social media allows businesses to communicate and provide awareness to their customers about offerings. It also provides a good platform for individuals or customers to communicate to the business on how they are operating, their views on products or services. The research problem we address in this study is with this amount of freedom to share information through social media, we need an understanding of the considerations of how businesses maintain social capital and social trust. This paper presents a preliminary study which explores the effectiveness of how businesses maintain good social capital. This study uses primary data collected from interviews with businesses about their social media use with their customers. The preliminary results show that businesses do understand the importance of maintaining a high social capital within social media. This paper contributes to the social capital theory literature within the context of social media usage by organisations, and thus the results may also provide some practical guidance organisations.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Innovation, Technology and Operations Management |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jun 2016 10:00 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2022 09:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/59287 |
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