Journal
INDUSTRY AND INNOVATION
Volume 26, Issue 8, Pages 880-897Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2019.1566054
Keywords
Social media; online social networks; technology diffusion; technology adoption; business
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- Business Finland
- Technology Industries of Finland
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In just one decade, social media have moved from being marginal phenomena to having three billion active monthly users globally in 2017. We use a large representative sample to study which company characteristics are associated with the early adoption of social media. Our findings suggest that digital orientation (outside social media), innovativeness, external collaboration in marketing and sales, and orientation towards consumer markets all increase a company's probability of adopting social media. In addition, larger and younger companies are more likely to be early movers. Overall, business use of social media has only reached its early maturity; thus, it still has plenty of room to grow.
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