How Generation Y Perceives Social Networking Applications in Corporate Environments

2014 ◽  
pp. 162-179
Author(s):  
Imed Boughzala
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Generation Y ◽  
Business School ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Corporate Environments ◽  
Management Students ◽  
Corporate Social

Organizations increasingly rely on corporate social networks and online communities to enhance socialization and knowledge sharing, collaboration, and value creation among coworkers. This chapter presents and analyzes results from a qualitative exploratory study conducted recently with a group of 24 graduate management students from a French business school. It contributes to a better understanding of how generation Y perceives the use of Social Networking (SN) applications inside businesses by drawing up a list of dos and don'ts. This study provides an ordered list of important adoption issues to consider when implementing and using CSN applications in businesses. It provides expectations and precautions for stakeholders to take into account for best use, compared to users (coworkers), managers, and the enterprise as a whole. A first list of guidelines, to favor the best adoption of these applications and to make their usage effective, is formulated.

Social Media and Value Creation

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imed Boughzala
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Generation Y ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Enterprise 2.0 ◽  
Corporate Environment ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Corporate Social

Organizations increasingly rely on corporate social networks and online communities, under what is called today Enterprise 2.0, to enhance socialization and favor information/knowledge sharing, collaboration and value creation among coworkers. Researchers and practitioners to date have mostly assumed that people from this generation Y, because of their massive use of social media in the private arena, would be willing to accept and use them more easily and quickly in corporate environment. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no empirical work which has been reported on this issue confirming this assumption.

The Corporate Social Network (CSN) in SME's

2017 ◽  
pp. 33-52
Author(s):  
Isabelle Choquet ◽  
Jacques Folon
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Efficient Tool ◽  
Start Up ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Start Ups

The authors intend to demonstrate that corporate social networks (CSN) are a very efficient tool for SME's and start-ups, since their early launch. They will immediately create an interactive structure and a culture of collective intelligence. The chapter aims at revealing how SMEs or start-ups are able to capture the opportunities provided by CSNs, perceived as proximity social networks. The research investigates if the use of CSN at the launch of the SME promotes the development of a collective intelligence culture, but also if several CSN may coexist within the same structure according to the needs encountered: “above-the-flow” approach (dialogue, exchanges) or “in the flow” approach (integration of workflow and document). The authors strongly believe that CSN has to be introduced by a web entrepreneur at the early stage of creation of his start-up, because it supports the scaling of the business, allowing the creation of a knowledge sharing culture, making the knowledge available inside the company.

Improving the organizational knowledge sharing through online social networks

Kybernetes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (11) ◽  
pp. 2615-2632
Author(s):  
Bo Yang ◽  
Lulu Wang ◽  
Bayan Omar Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Employee Motivation ◽  
Organizational Knowledge ◽  
Online Social Networking ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

Purpose Social technologies can offer a strong means for organizations to manage their information flows and thus make changes on the organizational knowledge sharing, which may then be linked to employees’ productivity and performance enhancements. The purpose of this paper is to predict the impact of using the online social network on employee motivation and employee motivation effects on organizational knowledge sharing. Design/methodology/approach From employees of tax affairs organization, data are collected. For evaluating the model’s elements, a questionnaire was designed. It was revised by experts with significant experiences. For statistical analysis, SMART-PLS 3.2 is used. Findings Findings have confirmed the validity of the proposed model. The results also have indicated that online social networks, social trust and social goals have a positive and important impact on employee motivation. Furthermore, obtained results have revealed that organizational knowledge sharing is significantly influenced by employee motivation and organizational commitment. Research limitations/implications The study contributes to the literature on organizational knowledge sharing and employee motivation in online social networking sites. Organizations could benefit from this knowledge by accepting that social networking sites must be considered as a critical component of the knowledge sharing, and precise targeting efforts could be directed for those users. Also, it could be exciting to study further factors affecting the development of organizational knowledge sharing in larger organizations. Originality/value The paper rises the understanding of what online social networking encompasses and how it can be utilized for the organization. The ideas and discussion are similarly applicable to libraries and may give them new visions into the delivery of social networking applications as part of their facilities to users.

scholarly journals Corporate Social Networks Applied in the Classroom

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 156
Author(s):  
Hugo De Juan-Jordán ◽  
María Guijarro-García ◽  
Javier Guardiola-Contreras
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Business School ◽  
Classroom Dynamics ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact

<p class="Textoindependiente21"><span lang="EN-US">The impact of online social networks has been extensive because of the new way they enable not only in terms of the relation, communication and collaboration among people, but also between people and businesses. So much so, their use is already habitual within organizations, known as Corporate Social Networks, in order to achieve the same benefits.</span></p><p class="Textoindependiente21">The present study aims to analyze the advantages these corporate social networks have in the classroom seen as a micro-organization where a group of students interact, work and collaborate during a master´s or postgraduate course. To support this research, during 2015 a corporate social network (Yammer) has been introduced to 5 groups of students of various master´s in the prestigious business school ESIC. The feedback obtained from those students and some examples of classroom dynamics prove the usefulness and great value of a corporate social network in postgraduate classes, although some common difficulties and considerations raised by the students themselves have to be taken into account in order to manage its optimal adoption in class.</p><p class="Textoindependiente21">This study also tries to propose some guidelines and best practices obtained as a result of the experience of use and the adoption of social networks in class in order to improve the learning process and innovate in the methodology applied to education.</p>

The Role Micro-Blogging Plays in Informal Communication and Knowledge Sharing Activities Within Universities

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shakiba Kazemian
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Informal Communication ◽  
Business World ◽  
The Past ◽  
Enterprise Social Networks ◽  
New Phenomena ◽  
Business Sectors ◽  
Social Networking Tools

Micro-blogging is one of the most common informal social networking tools these days. Micro-blogs, a comparatively new phenomena, have changed the business world in a positive way with encouraging and providing a variability of impressions on collaboration and managerial novelty which growing very fast and becoming very popular among large organizations. Microblogging is considered as an opportunity that will finally enhance the employment engagement and providing a variety of effects on co-operative work (e.g., relational benefits & personal benefits to organizations). Until now, using enterprise social networks (ESNs) have been receiving increasingly more attention in business sectors such as multinational technology companies and practice over the past years, this article will review the biggest existing gap that is using internal social networking enterprise in academia.

Strategic Role of Social Networking and Personal Knowledge Management Competencies for Future Entrepreneurs

2017 ◽  
pp. 248-266
Author(s):  
Oliana Sula ◽  
Tiit Elenurm
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Management Competencies ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
New Business ◽  
Strategic Role

The mission of this chapter is to explore the role of social networking and knowledge management competencies combined with social networking strategies as an essential component and support for the development of co-innovation and business co-creation processes for future and potential entrepreneurs enrolled in higher education programs. Business students are active users of social networks but usually do not have clear business-focus priorities when devoting their time to social networking. Social networks enable virtual communities which allow knowledge sharing and collaborative learning a different stages of new business development. These networks have the potential to create ties for cross-border business initiatives that cannot be created in face-to-face networks. Innovative ideas often emerge from combining different sources of knowledge. Social networks can be used for action learning and cross-border knowledge sharing in the academic context in order to enhance cross-border entrepreneurship.

scholarly journals Modal Sosial dan Keberlanjutan Kelembagaan dalam Program CSR PT Tirta Investama di Kabupaten Cianjur Jawa Barat

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Chintia Chintia ◽  
Fredian Tonny Nasdian
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
The Public ◽  
Institutional Sustainability ◽  
High Level ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Broad Level

Corporate social responsibility is a responsibility that must be implemented by the company to the public and the environment. Social capital, especially social networks have a role in the sustainability of institutions in Cianjur District, West Java. The main objective is create a sustainable program, that keep continued even though the company is no longer or not directly involed. This study aims to describe social networks, social capital, institutional sustainability, and analyze the correllation between social networks and institutional sustainability. This study uses quantitative approach with census method supported by qualitative data. The results showed that the level of social networking contained in HIPOCI were on a broad level and the level of institutional sustainability in high level. Based on the research that has been tested statistically show that there is a correlattion between the level of social networking with the level of institutional sustainability.Key words: social networks, typology, correlation--------------------------ABSTRAKCSR atau tanggung jawab sosial perusahaan merupakan bentuk tanggung jawab yang wajib dilaksanakan oleh perusahaan kepada masyarakat dan lingkungan sekitar. Modal sosial, khususnya jejaring sosial memiliki peranan dalam keberlanjutan kelembagaan di Kabupaten Cianjur, Jawa Barat. Hal ini diharapkan mampu menjadikan suatu program dapat berkelanjutan meskipun perusahan tidak lagi ikut terlibat. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memaparkan jejaring sosial, modal sosial, keberlanjutan kelembagaan, menganalisis hubungan jejaring sosial dan keberlanjutan kelembagaan. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif didukung data kualitatif dengan metode sensus. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan tingkat jejaring sosial yang terdapat pada HIPOCI berada di tingkat luas dan tingkat keberlanjutan kelembagaan di tingkat tinggi. Berdasarkan hasil uji secara statistik menunjukkan bahwa terdapat hubungan antara tingkat jejaring sosial dengan tingkat keberlanjutan kelembagaan.Kata kunci: jejaring sosial, tipologi, korelasi

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