Personality as a predictor of business social media usage: An empirical investigation of XING usage patterns

Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2016 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages

  Buettner, Ricardo ^a  

^a FOM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agreeableness; Big five; Conscientiousness; Emotional Stability; Extraversion; Five factor model; Online social networks; Openness to Experience; Personality; Social media; XING

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

AGREEABLENESS; BIG FIVE; CONSCIENTIOUSNESS; EMOTIONAL STABILITIES; EXTRAVERSION; FIVE-FACTOR MODEL; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL MEDIA; XING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85011032607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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