The architectural innovation triggered by the emergence of social platforms is challenging the established players in the social networking market but also has implications beyond this market by opening up opportunities for new market entry. To counter the challenge from Facebook's pioneering proprietary architecture for social platforms, Google has joined forces with Facebook's primary competitors in the social networking market in launching a competing open architecture for social platforms, the OpenSocial. The main research question for the study is: How is the OpenSocial driving the establishment of social platforms? The main objective of the present study is to analyze and assess what impact Google's market entry with the OpenSocia...
Today, five of the world’s six most valuable companies are platform companies. Platforms as a notabl...
The purpose of this article is to operationalise an evolutionary perspective on the history of socia...
The world of marketing communication has been transformed completely by the presence of the internet...
Digitalization is proliferating and digital strategizing is thus becoming ever more important in var...
Abstract The social web has intervened in every aspect of our lives; however, any instance of its p...
The popularity of social media as a marketing method has been rapidly increasing during the last cou...
The importance of platform companies has increased substantially over the recent years, a phenomenon...
Social media can be regarded as a new tool for advertisement and marketing. Although social media ne...
In this thesis, I study how social media could be utilized in virtual organizations. The study is b...
The phenomenon of Web 2.0 services is expanding, generating at the same time questions on its manage...
As technology has grown in countless ways, social networking site has become more popular and import...
This study develops a conceptual model to examine determinants of social media adoption for open inn...
Uusia verkkosivuja luodaan päivittäin ja ne kaikki kisaavat internetin käyttäjien huomiosta. Sähköis...
There is a common perception that Social Media, a form of digital social networks [Boyd and Ellison,...
Social media has changed the way people communicate and work together online. It has also reversed ...
Today, five of the world’s six most valuable companies are platform companies. Platforms as a notabl...
The purpose of this article is to operationalise an evolutionary perspective on the history of socia...
The world of marketing communication has been transformed completely by the presence of the internet...
Digitalization is proliferating and digital strategizing is thus becoming ever more important in var...
Abstract The social web has intervened in every aspect of our lives; however, any instance of its p...
The popularity of social media as a marketing method has been rapidly increasing during the last cou...
The importance of platform companies has increased substantially over the recent years, a phenomenon...
Social media can be regarded as a new tool for advertisement and marketing. Although social media ne...
In this thesis, I study how social media could be utilized in virtual organizations. The study is b...
The phenomenon of Web 2.0 services is expanding, generating at the same time questions on its manage...
As technology has grown in countless ways, social networking site has become more popular and import...
This study develops a conceptual model to examine determinants of social media adoption for open inn...
Uusia verkkosivuja luodaan päivittäin ja ne kaikki kisaavat internetin käyttäjien huomiosta. Sähköis...
There is a common perception that Social Media, a form of digital social networks [Boyd and Ellison,...
Social media has changed the way people communicate and work together online. It has also reversed ...
Today, five of the world’s six most valuable companies are platform companies. Platforms as a notabl...
The purpose of this article is to operationalise an evolutionary perspective on the history of socia...
The world of marketing communication has been transformed completely by the presence of the internet...