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What is Social Ties

Chapter 17
Handbook of Research on Business Social Networking: Organizational, Managerial, and Technological Dimensions
Connections among people that are used for sharing information, knowledge, feelings, and experiences. Social ties can be weak, strong, or latent based on the extent of exchanges and interactions between two nodes.
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Social Network Citizenship
Mina Seraj (Bogazici University, Turkey) and Aysegul Toker (Bogazici University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-168-9.ch017
Abstract
This chapter describes and discusses the specificities of membership commitment to online social networks. While delineating these specificities, we introduce the concept of social network citizenship (SNC) to define the characteristics of committed network members. A conceptual model involving commencement, creation, change, and commitment is developed in order to establish the antecedents of this new concept. In addition, the implications for marketing practice are discussed to reveal how companies can acquire social network citizens to retain their social media marketing strategies successful.
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Chapter 12
Building Trust in Globally Distributed Teams
The relationships between remote counterparts, which can be either work-related ties (e.g., involve a person gathering the information, advice and resources necessary to accomplish a task), or expressive ties (e.g., friendship), which involve expressions of interpersonal solidarity (Umphress et al., 2003).
Published in Chapter: Building Trust in Globally Distributed Teams; From: Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
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Issues and Challenges in Enterprise Social Media
Individual connections maintained by people in their social circle within which they interact and exchange varied kinds of information.
Published in Chapter: Issues and Challenges in Enterprise Social Media; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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Social Networking and Knowledge Sharing in Organizations
The connections with fellow individuals in one’s communication network. Information moves in different ways across various social ties in a social network.
Published in Chapter: Social Networking and Knowledge Sharing in Organizations; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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