Business value of social media technologies: Evidence from online user innovation communities

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 113-127

  Dong, John Qi ^a   Wu, Weifang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Business value of information technology; Crowdsourcing; Information technology capabilities; Online user innovation communities; Open innovation; Social media

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

BUSINESS VALUE; IMPLEMENTATION CAPABILITIES; MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS; ONLINE USERS; OPEN INNOVATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84930542689     PISSN: 09638687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2015.04.003     Document Type: Article

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