Introduction to the Special Issue - Social Media and Business Transformation: A Framework for Research

By Sinan Aral, Chrysanthos Dellarocas, David Godes. Information systems research, 2013

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Why do small and medium enterprises use social media marketing and what is the impact: Empirical insights from India (2020, background): “Using social media platform, consumers can directly connect with new products, services and brands easily (Aral, Dellarocas, & Godes, 2013; Aswani, Kar, Ilavarasan, & Dwivedi, 2018; Sawhney & Prandelli, 2000).”
Social media analytics - Challenges in topic discovery, data collection, and data preparation (2018, background): “Aral et al. (2013) describe research opportunities of social media analytics and propose a research framework for understanding the relationships among society, business, and social media.”
Evaluation and decision making in social media marketing (2017, background): “Aral et al. (2013) argue that social media is “fundamentally changing the way we communicate, collaborate, consume, and create” (p. 3).”
How to perform and report an impactful analysis using partial least squares: Guidelines for confirmatory and explanatory IS research (2020, background): “Based on prior IS research on social media in organizations [77,99], it is assumed that social executive behavior and social employee behavior positively affect development of a firm’s social media capability, which, in turn, may positively influence firm’s business processes performance.”
Do Your Online Friends Make You Pay? A Randomized Field Experiment on Peer Influence in Online Social Networks (2014, background): “The interested reader is referred to Aral et al. (2013), who provide a nice taxonomy of social media design research along the dimensions of users and society, platforms and intermediaries, and ﬁrms and industries.”
Advertising Content and Consumer Engagement on Social Media: Evidence from Facebook (2018, unknown): “Finally, our paper is related to empirical studies on social media (reviewed in Sundararajan et al. (2013); Aral et al. (2013)).”
A Blockchain Research Framework (2017, methodology): “Thus, we assume the social media framework from Aral et al. (2013) to provide a viable starting point for structuring blockchain research.”
Linking dimensions of social media use to job performance: The role of social capital (2015, background): “…from creating new business models and marketing techniques, to improving demand predictions, enabling new management practices and learning practices, and enhancing innovation, knowledge sharing, collaboration and communication (Aral et al., 2013; Bughin and Chui, 2013; Urquhart and Vaast, 2012).”
Social Media and Their Affordances for Organizing: A Review and Agenda for Research (2017, unknown): “Other scholars have also touched upon the relationships between uses of social media for work and changes in business processes (Aral et al., 2013), as well as firm effectiveness and equity value (Dong & Wu, 2015; Luo, Zhang, & Duan, 2013).”
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).”