How do small firms learn to develop a Social media competence?

Jessica Braojos-Gomez, Jose Benitez-Amado, F. Javier Llorens-Montes

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Social media can be leveraged to improve the firm's business activities to create value. Because small firms have a lower portfolio of resources to compete more effectively in the market, social media capabilities can become more critical for small than large firms. However, prior research has failed in explaining the variables through which small firms can learn to adopt social media. Our study is a first effort to address this research gap. We propose a conceptual model in which social competitor pressure, IT infrastructure capability, two organizational capabilities (marketing management and innovation management) and firm size enable small firms to learn to develop a social media competence. The model is tested using the partial least squares-based structural equation modeling technique employing a unique secondary dataset on a sample composed of the 100 small U.S. firms included in the 2013 Forbes America's Best Small Companies ranking. The empirical analysis suggests that IT infrastructure capability, social competitor pressure, marketing management and innovation management are key mechanisms through which small firms learn to develop a social media competence. The empirical analysis also suggests that social media competence is more critical for the smallest manufacturing firms even among a sample of small firms.

Idioma originalAnglès
Estat de la publicacióPublicada - 2014
Publicat externament
Esdeveniment24th Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems: Value Creation from Innovative Technologies, WITS 2014 - Auckland, New Zealand
Durada: 17 de des. 201419 de des. 2014

Conferència

Conferència24th Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems: Value Creation from Innovative Technologies, WITS 2014
País/TerritoriNew Zealand
CiutatAuckland
Període17/12/1419/12/14

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