TY - GEN
T1 - A survey on social networks and organization development
AU - Albalooshi, Noora
AU - Mavridis, Nikolaos
AU - Al-Qirim, Nabeel
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Social networking sites emerged with the development of Web 2.0 tools and technologies. This phenomenon has grown in momentum with the appearance of popular websites such as Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter. However, apart from personal use, social networks have become an important constituent in the business field. This research introduces the evolution of social networking in relation to organizational development. Furthermore, it investigates multiple aspects and linkages between social networking and organizational development. This is in terms of creating a collaborative and a knowledge sharing social networks to produce more productive organization.
AB - Social networking sites emerged with the development of Web 2.0 tools and technologies. This phenomenon has grown in momentum with the appearance of popular websites such as Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter. However, apart from personal use, social networks have become an important constituent in the business field. This research introduces the evolution of social networking in relation to organizational development. Furthermore, it investigates multiple aspects and linkages between social networking and organizational development. This is in terms of creating a collaborative and a knowledge sharing social networks to produce more productive organization.
KW - Social networking
KW - action research
KW - collaboration
KW - group dynamics
KW - knowledge sharing
KW - organization development
KW - social network analysis
KW - social networking sites
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U2 - 10.1109/CTS.2012.6261102
DO - 10.1109/CTS.2012.6261102
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84866921924
SN - 9781467313803
T3 - Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, CTS 2012
SP - 539
EP - 545
BT - Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, CTS 2012
T2 - 2012 13th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, CTS 2012
Y2 - 21 May 2012 through 25 May 2012
ER -