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SOCIAL MEDIA AND ORGANIZATIONS:AN INTEGRATIVE REVIEW AND FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS Open
Social media have fundamentally reshaped how organizations and audiences interact, challenging theoretical assumptions in the management literature. With this integrative literature review, we take stock of a fragmented body of research, b…
Fooling Them, Not Me? How Fake News Affects Evaluators’ Reputation Judgments and Behavioral Intentions Open
The volume of fake news in the digital media landscape is increasing, creating a new threat to organizations’ reputations. At the same time, individuals are more aware of the existence of fake news. It thus remains unclear how fake news af…
Interdependent Formation of Symbolic and Regulatory Boundaries: The Discursive Contestation Around the Home-Sharing Category Open
The formation of boundaries between established and emergent categories is a complex social process. Therein, our understanding of how symbolic boundaries translate into regulatory boundaries is underdeveloped. Extant research either treat…
Towards a unified typology of digital communication technologies in international business: a tool for management and research Open
Purpose Digital communication technologies have become ubiquitous for various firm processes related to international business (IB) and global strategy. However, IB and strategy scholars lack an encompassing and theory-based typology of th…
Digital Technology and Voice: How Platforms Shape Institutional Processes Through Visibilization Open
Digital technologies, and the affordances they provide, can shape institutional processes in significant ways. In the last decade, social media and other digital platforms have redefined civic engagement by enabling new ways of connecting,…
Finding the Tipping Point: When Heterogeneous Evaluations in Social Media Converge and Influence Organizational Legitimacy Open
Can citizens impact the broader discourse about an organization and its legitimacy? While social media have empowered citizens to publicly question firms through large volumes of online evaluations, the high heterogeneity of their evaluati…
Digital Technology and Voice: How Platforms Shape Institutional Processes Through Visibilization Open
Digital technologies, and the affordances they provide, can shape institutional processes in significant ways. In the last decade, social media and other digital platforms have redefined civic engagement by enabling new ways of connecting,…
Between tragedy, romance, comedy and satire: narratives of axiological progress in public relations Open
Purpose Over recent years, public relations (PR) research has diversified in themes and theories. As a result, PR presents itself today as a multi-paradigmatic discipline with competing ideas of progress that mainly circle around questions…
Activists in the dark: Social media algorithms and collective action in two social movement organizations Open
It is widely established that social media afford social movement (SM) organizations new ways of organizing. Critical studies point out, however, that social media use may also trigger negative repercussions due to the commercial interests…
Vicious and Virtuous Circles of Aspirational Talk: From Self-Persuasive to Agonistic CSR Rhetoric Open
Scholars are divided over the question of whether managerial aspirational talk that contradicts current business practices can contribute to corporate social responsibility (CSR). In this conceptual article, we explore the rhetorical dynam…
The Formation of Organizational Reputation Open
In this article, we review four decades of research on the formation of organizational reputation. Our review reveals six perspectives that have informed past studies: a game theoretic, a strategic, a macro-cognitive, a micro-cognitive, a …
Ps2Share – Participation, Privacy, And Power In The Sharing Economy Open
This data set contains: Cleaned data files of the 2017 survey on participation, privacy, and power in the sharing economy across 12 countries. Data are in sav (for SPSS), xlsx, and csv format. Survey questionnaires in 10 languages (zipped …
Ps2Share – Participation, Privacy, And Power In The Sharing Economy Open
This data set contains: Cleaned data files of the 2017 survey on participation, privacy, and power in the sharing economy across 12 countries. Data are in sav (for SPSS), xlsx, and csv format. Survey questionnaires in 10 languages (zipped …
Social Media and the Formation of Organizational Reputation Open
The rise of social media is changing how evaluative judgments about organizations are produced and disseminated in the public domain. In this article, we discuss how these changes question traditional assumptions that research on media rep…
European Perspectives on Privacy in the Sharing Economy Open
Report from the EU H2020 Research Project Ps2Share: Participation, Privacy, and Power in the Sharing Economy
Measuring Organizational Legitimacy in Social Media: Assessing Citizens’ Judgments With Sentiment Analysis Open
Conventional quantitative methods for the measurement of organizational legitimacy consider mainly three sources that make judgments about organizations visible: news media, accreditation bodies, and surveys. Over the last decade, however,…