• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.382-406
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• 2019

We study the antecedents to tie formation on an (Facebook-like) enterprise social media platform implemented to support cross-boundary connections. Research has produced mixed findings regarding the role of social media in cultivating bridging vs. closed networks. We examine the tie formation patterns of 1,386 enterprise social media users over a two-year period. Specifically, we observe who became (or chose not s become) "friends" with whom at the dyadic level and relate the decisions to various mechanisms that affect one's network to expand, constrain, or bridge. Using logistic and OLS regressions, we find that users tend to form ties via reciprocity and transitivity (with friends of friends), both of which help expand one's network. We also find strong networking tendency toward functional and hierarchical homophily (same business unit and same rank, respectively), which is likely to constrain one's network (closed network structure). We find that one's participation in various online interest groups is likely to open one's network (bridging network structure) while no evidence found for preferential attachment. Overall, we find that enterprise social media offers features, some of which are likely to foster bridging while others foster closed networks via different mechanisms.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.195-215
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• 2015

Recently, as the number of smart-phone users has been rapidly increased, enterprise managers have a keen interest in business application of social media. Most previous studies have focused on perspective of the individual unit of analysis instead of enterprise level unit. The study is focused on the relationship between the enterprises' recognition and behavioral intention (and use) about social media application. The purpose of this study is to develop the model of small and medium enterprises' social media application, and to find the factors affecting their behavioral intention or use behavior. The moderating effects of four corporate characteristics on the relationship between the enterprises' recognition and behavioral intention are also examined. We surveyed 900 corporate staffs and received 203 responses. After questionnaires with unreliable responses had been excluded, 182 effective samples were used in the final analysis. The findings suggest that Performance Expectation, Social Influence, Facilitating Conditions significantly affect Behavioral Intention of social medea, and Behavioral Intention affects USE. Furthermore, some corporate characteristics have moderating effect on the relationship between recognition of social media and Behavioral Intention.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.177-188
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• 2013

As the number of smart phone users increases, many organizations begin to adopt social media rapidly to diversify communication channels with customers. Specifically, micro-blog, which supports instant and two-way communications between users and between organizations and users, has been adopted by many organizations as an efficient way not only to identify new customers but also to retain existing customers. The purpose of this study is to investigate the usage motivation and satisfaction of enterprise twitter based on use and gratifications perspectives comparing with Korea and China. Based on prior studies on use and gratifications of internet-related media, information seeking, pleasure/entertainment, relationship, communication, and incentives were identified as usage motivations of enterprise Micro-blog. This study contributes to provide the base of activation strategies and practical implications for micro-blog as a marketing tool.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.189-206
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• 2014

Knowledge management is considered an important factor for competitive advantage and sustainability for firms. As many knowledge management systems failed to achieve the desired results, enterprise social media (ESM) has received considerable attention as an alternative solution for knowledge sharing within a firm. This paper attempts to investigate the influence of various aspects of ESM on knowledge sharing. While previous literature mainly focused on structural aspects of ESM, this study focuses on social psychological aspects, such as social connectedness, social awareness, and social presence, along with reputational aspects (such as self-presentation). Further, in order to clarify knowledge sharing behavior, this study classifies knowledge sharing behavior into two categories, knowledge contribution and knowledge acquisition. The data used in this study was collected from 179 individuals who have experience in their own ESM. The results show that both social connectedness and self-presentation positively influence the two types of knowledge sharing behavior, i.e., acquisition and contribution. Meanwhile, social awareness turns out to be a significant determinant of knowledge contribution only. Contrary to our expectations, however, social presence does not significantly influence knowledge sharing behavior.

• 한국식품조리과학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.65-75
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to investigate the consumer's current use and recognition for foodservice social enterprises type cafe. During the research, problems regarding the developmental directions of foodservice social enterprises type cafe. A one-to-one survey method was used for data collection, and 301questionnaires among the 309 distributed questionnaires to consumers were analyzed (97.4% response rate). The main results of the study were as follows : with reference to the awareness of the foodservice social enterprise type cafe, a majority of respondents (81.1%) replied that they had knowledge related to the business of social enterprise. Furthermore, regarding how customers came to know about the foodservice social enterprise type cafe results showed that 28.2% of respondents knew about the cafe by acquaintances such as friend, co-worker, family, 23.2% by mass media, and 27.2% by others. Data concerning a companion when visiting the cafe, revealed that more than half of the respondents (80.0%) had visited with friend and co-worker. On problems with using the cafe, approximately 46.2% of the respondents replied that there was lack of public relation and 28.9% replied that it was an uncommon store. Since the findings suggested that the major problem is a lack of promotion, foodservice social enterprises type cafe should prepare organized brochures and guide system to attract customers with various purposes and values. Finally, the promotion for foodservice social enterprise type cafe requires a guidance map.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.568-589
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• 2020

Recently, Social media has become a concern for businesses, including Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). SMEs began to adopt social media to support their performance. To benefit from the application of social media, SMEs must implement the right strategy. This study aims to analyze the factors that influence the use of social media in SMEs. Furthermore, alignment between social media functionalities and strategies and their effect on SME's performance are investigated. A case study is conducted in Gymi, a garment SMEs in East Java, Indonesia. The data collection includes interviews with the owner of SMEs, observations, and document analysis. Data analysis is performed by pattern matching, which matches the patterns from the literature with data from the case study. The results of this study show that cost-effectiveness, interactivity, and compatibility are factors that influence the use of social media in Gymi. The social media used by Gymi are Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, and LINE. However, the main social media used to support Gymi's functions is Instagram. Gymi has a relatively good social media strategy as it has defined a specific goal, target audience, and channel selection for social media (Instagram). It also has specific resources and policies to handle social media. Gymi monitors and evaluates their social media content activities. These strategies are aligned with the Instagram feature used to support Gymi's function, particularly marketing, sales, customer service, and to some extent, internal operation. The alignment contributes to Gymi's performance measured by the increase in reputation (number of Instagram followers) and sales.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권12호
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• pp.283-292
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• 2020

The implementation of physical or social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic has an implication on the shifting of conventional to online business activities. This study aims to explore how financial support, perceived benefits, external pressure determine social media marketing as well as understanding the role of internet and e-business technology (IEBT) that occurs in this relationship. This study adopted a quantitative study with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)-based variance Partial Least Square (PLS), which aims to enhance understanding of the relationship between variables. The surveyed population of this study came from 123 small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owners in East Java of Indonesia, using an online survey and selected with the convenience random sampling method. The findings of this study indicated that the perceived benefits and external pressure have a positive effect on the adoption of IEBT. However, financial support failed in explaining SMEs' adoption of IEBT. This study confirmed that the adoption of IEBT has successfully mediated the influence of financial support, perceived benefits, and external pressure on social media marketing. Despite the samples solely collected from East Java, this study is the first step in research related to the social media marketing in SMEs in Indonesia.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.308-317
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 광주광역시와 제주특별자치도에 소재하고 있는 (예비)사회적기업의 네트워크구축 활동에 관한 사례연구를 실시하여, 현재 사회적기업의 지역 네트워크 실태와 미래 자원연계 방향에 대한 수요파악, 전략적 협력적인 네트워크구축 활성화 방안을 모색해보고자 하였다. 양 지역의 사회적기업이 맺고 싶은 지역자원은 기업과 공공기관, 지역언론사가 가장 많고, 다음으로 전문가 등의 프로보노, 민간단체, 자원봉사단체로 나타났다. 희망하는 연계내용으로는 제품구매, 인건비 및 재정지원, 홍보, 서비스구매, 마케팅, 공동사업 순으로 나타났다. 연계를 위해서 관련행사 참여, 정부기관의 도움, 관련단체 가입, 기관장의 역할 순으로 노력을 수행하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 연구결과 사회적기업의 지역자원연계 활성화를 위해서는 지역사회내 영리기업과 대학 등과 1사 1사회적기업 협력체계를 추진하거나, 지역사회내 자원봉사자 활동을 발굴할 필요가 있으며, 윤리적이고 대안적인 소비자운동의 촉발과 연대, 사회적기업의 신뢰형성 등이 중요한 활성화 방안으로 도출되었다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.308-315
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• 2016

With the advancement in the area of cloud storage services as well as a tremendous growth of social networking sites, permission for one web service to act on the behalf of another has become increasingly vital as social Internet services such as blogs, photo sharing, and social networks. With this increased cross-site media sharing, there is a upscale of security implications and hence the need to formulate security protocols and considerations. Recently, OAuth, a new protocol for establishing identity management standards across services, is provided as an alternative way to share the user names and passwords, and expose personal information to attacks against on-line data and identities. Moreover, OwnCloud provides an enterprise file synchronizing and sharing that is hosted on user's data center, on user's servers, using user's storage. We propose a secure Social Networking Site (SSN) access based on OAuth implementation by combining two novel concepts of OAuth and OwnCloud. Security analysis and performance evaluation are given to validate the proposed scheme.

• 정보화연구
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.471-483
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 사회네트워크 분석을 활용하여 소셜 미디어를 통해 이루어지는 관광목적지의 관광정보에 대한 공유 및 흐름에 대하여 살펴보고자 하였다. 이를 위해 트위터의 서울과 부산 관광에 대한 네트워크 그룹의 사용자 간에 이루어지는 정보공유와 교환 및 확산 관계를 비교하였다. 전체적(Global) 관점에서 트위터 네트워크의 정보 쏠림현상, 정보의 확산력 등을 도출하였다. 미시적(Node) 관점에서 트위터 내의 정보에 대한 영향력 있는 유저를 파악하여 정보의 흐름과 정보공유에 대한 특성을 파악하였다. 본 연구 결과를 통해 소셜 미디어 사용자들의 정보 탐색행동과 정보공유 및 확산 패턴을 이해할 수 있는 학문적 근거를 제시하였으며, 소셜 미디어를 단순한 제품 및 서비스의 홍보 수단이 아닌 궁극적으로 정보 수용자가 원하는 정보를 제공해 줄 수 있는 마케팅 도구로써의 활용 방안 제시하였다.