Much ado about nothing? Tracing the progress of innovations borne on enterprise social network sites

摘要: Enterprise social networks are organizationally bounded online platforms for users to interact with another and maintain interpersonal relationships. The allure of these technologies is often seen in intra-organizational communication, collaboration innovation. How actually support organizational innovation efforts remains unclear. A specific challenge whether digital content on converts actual development efforts. In this study we set out examine innovation-centric flows enterprise networking platforms, advance a conceptual model that seeks explain which conveyed the will traverse from platform into regular processes. We describe important constructs our offer strategies operationalization constructs. conclude an outlook ongoing empirical explore validate key propositions model, sketch some potential implications industry academia.