Enhancing organisational competitiveness via social media : a strategy as practice perspective
Abstract
The affordances, popularity and pervasive use of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have made these platforms attractive to organisations for enhancing their competitiveness and creating business value. Despite this apparent significance of social media for businesses, they are struggling with the development of a social media strategy as well as understanding the implications of social media on practice within their organisations. This paper explores how social media has become a tool for competitiveness and its influence on organisational strategy and practice. Using the ‘strategy as practice’ lens and guided by the interpretivist philosophy, this paper uses the empirical case of a telecom organisation in Tanzania. The findings show that social media is influencing competitiveness through imitation and product development. Also, the findings indicate how social media affects the practices within an organisation, consequently making the social media strategy an emergent phenomenon.Citation
Kwayu S, Lal B, Abubakre M (2018) 'Enhancing organisational competitiveness via social media : a strategy as practice perspective', Information Systems Frontiers, 20 (3), pp.439-456.Publisher
SpringerJournal
Information Systems FrontiersAdditional Links
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10796-017-9816-5Type
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1387-3326ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1007/s10796-017-9816-5
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