Social Media, Knowledge Sharing, and Innovation: Toward a Theory of Communication Visibility

By Paul M. Leonardi. Information systems research, 2014

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Subfields: Communication, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Ambient Awareness and Knowledge Acquisition: Using Social Media to Learn "Who Knows What" and "Who Knows Whom" (2015, background): “…one another (what they say) and the directionality of those messages (to whom they say it) via social media reveals reliable indicators that third-party observers can use to improve their knowledge of “who knows what” and “who knows whom” (Ellison et al. 2015; Fulk and Yuan 2013; Leonardi 2014).”
Risk, trust, and the interaction of perceived ease of use and behavioral control in predicting consumers' use of social media for transactions (2018, background): “Concerns and fears over information security, personal data protection, and compliance are frequently reported in research as consumer barriers to adoption of social networks for business use (Aral et al., 2013; Boss, Galletta, Lowry, Moody, & Polak, 2015; Leonardi, 2014).”
Advances in Social Media Research: Past, Present and Future (2017, background): “The reviewed studies suggest that incorporatin social media in firms increases meta-knowledge (who ’ s who in an organization and who does what), which helps avoid knowledge duplication and promotes new ways of managing work (Leonardi 2014).”
Social Media and Their Affordances for Organizing: A Review and Agenda for Research (2017, positive): “social media use in organizations (Leonardi, 2014; Thomas & Akdere, 2013; Von Krogh, 2012).”
Explicating Affordances: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Affordances in Communication Research (2017, background): “Leonardi (2014) notes that new communication tools increase visibility “by loosening the requirement to select a target audience through email carbon copy features or the instant messaging forward feature.”
Do all elements of intellectual capital matter for organizational performance? Evidence from Russian context (2016, background): “These might include having a clear knowledge strategy (e.g. Zack, 1999) and implementing information systems and tools (e.g. Leonardi, 2014), training, rotation, remuneration policies, job design and other HR practices (e.g. Cabrera and Cabrera, 2005; Foss et al., 2009).”
Transformational leadership and innovation: the mediating role of knowledge sharing amongst higher education faculty (2019, positive): “…Weng, Huang, Chen, & Chang, 2015), between transformational leadership and knowledge sharing (Li, Shang, Liu, & Xi, 2014; Shao, Feng, & Liu, 2012) and between knowledge sharing and innovation (Leonardi, 2014; Ritala, Olander, Michailova, & Husted, 2015; Wang & Wang, 2012) have been widely studied.”
Organizational Structure, Information Processing, and Decision-Making: A Retrospective and Road Map for Research (2020, background): “The latter, as occurswhen apassive receiver is merely “lurking,” offers decision makers what scholars refer to as communicationvisibility (Leonardi, 2014) Such visibility transforms previously invisible communication between organizational members into visible knowledge about who knows what and abou”
Expanding Explainability: Towards Social Transparency in AI systems (2021, background): “type of “ambient awareness” coined by Leonardi in the context of enterprise social media [55, 56].”
Social media for knowledge-sharing: A systematic literature review (2018, background): “, 2016) 1 Communication Theory (Leonardi, 2014) 1 Commitment-trust Theory (Hashim and Tan, 2015) 1 Critical Mass Theory (Wang et al.”