The Value of Knowledge Acquired via Online Social Capital: LinkedIn, a South African Perspective

The Value of Knowledge Acquired via Online Social Capital: LinkedIn, a South African Perspective

This study investigated the value of a member’s online social capital, in the social networking platform LinkedIn, in the following areas: member’s subject matter proficiency, member’s firm’s problem solving ability, and member’s firm’s innovation process. The analytical framework used the con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Niresh Maharaj, Visvanathan Naicker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LINK Centre, School of Literature Language and Media (SLLM) 2016-12-01
Series:The African Journal of Information and Communication
Subjects:
linkedin
social networks
social capital
online social capital
dense networks
weak ties
strong ties
structural holes
web 2.0
online social networks (osns)
subject matter proficiency
problem solving
novel knowledge
innovation
communities of practice (cops)
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10539/21656

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