Title
Social media capital: Conceptualizing the nature, acquisition, and expenditure of social media-based organizational resources
Abstract
The near-universal organizational participation in social media is predicated on the belief there are some tangible or intangible new resources to be had through tweeting, pinning, posting, friending, and sharing. We argue the linchpin of any payoff from engagement in social media is a special form of social capital we refer to as social media capital, and offer a conceptual framework for understanding its nature, acquisition, and expenditure. This paper contributes to existing literature by elaborating a new type of organizational resource and then synthesizing and extending research on the processes through which organizations can translate social media efforts into meaningful organizational outcomes. Understanding this causal chain is critical not only for measuring the return on investment from social media use but also for developing accounting information systems that are both adaptable to social resources and better able to exploit the data analytic and forecasting capabilities of real-time social media data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.accinf.2019.100443
International Journal of Accounting Information Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Big data,Data analytics,Resources,Social capital,Social media,Social networks
Social capital,Social media,Return on investment,Accounting information system,Computer science,Knowledge management,Exploit,Causal chain,Conceptual framework,Stochastic game
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
36
1467-0895
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gregory D. Saxton11318.97
Chao Guo210.35