Social Media and Management

The editors for Emerald's Advanced Series in Management proudly (pre-)announce the following two volumes on Social Media and Management currently in progress --when the volumes are made available for sale (expected: mid- to late-2013), you will be able to find them here!  Thank you for your interest in this exciting topic!!!

Social Media in Strategic Management

Advanced Series in Management, vol. 11

Miguel R. Olivas-Luján and Tanya Bondarouk

•              Social media are changing the way businesses interact in technology-mediated ways with most of their stakeholders.  Strategically-minded managers, researchers and students cannot afford to ignore the new ways in which interactions with customers, employees, shareholders, and many other important constituents are taking place as a result of the widespread availability and creative use of these new technologies. Conventional wisdom is being challenged and virtual workspaces that had never been conceptualized are opening at blistering speed.  This volume in the Advanced Series in Management bridges empirical and theoretical approaches to identify and demystify this set of emerging, exciting new family of user-generated content technologies.

•              With contributions from and about a wide diversity of countries, from emerging to established, researchers and informed practitioners will find intriguing, diverse perspectives on how the social media revolution challenging managers and management scholars. Involving disciplines as different as management, communications, information technology, personnel, finance and others, contributions in this book will be cited in future research projects or used in classrooms and other training settings by those more likely stay in the leading edge of this family of innovative tools.  

Tentative Table of Contents

Strategic Management in Social Media: The Leading Edge 

Miguel R. Olivas-Luján and Tanya Bondarouk

Digital Behaviours and People Risk: Challenges for Risk Management

Prof Andy Phippen and Dr Simon Ashby

Leveraging Social Media Technology for Business Transformation: The Case of Corporate Social Communities

Richard L. Gruner, Damien Power and Paul K. Bergey

Strategic Management and Social Media: An Empirical Analysis of Electronic Social Capital and Online Fundraising

Ray Henry and Lisa Bosman

Disentangling the Strategic Use of Social Media in the Insurance Industry: A Value Co-creation Perspective

Emanuele Castriotta, Paola Barbara Floreddu, Maria Chiara Di Guardo and Francesca Cabiddu

You Might Be Admired but Are You ‘Liked’? Orchestrating Corporate Reputation Co-Production on Facebook

Anna Zarkada and Christina Polydorou

Social Media as a Strategic Tool: Going beyond the Obvious

Poonam Arora and Carolyn E. Predmore

Increasing Dynamic Capabilities of Health Organizations with Social Media

Ricky Leung

Social Media Champions – Drivers and Sophistication Process of Social Media in Strategic Management

Lukasz M. Bochenek and Sam Blili

Innovation Management, Lead Users and Social Media – A Conceptual Framework

Markus Ernst, Alexander Brem , and Kai-Ingo Voigt

Social Media as Enabler of Crowdsourcing Business Model

Ivan Župič

Social Media as Marketing Strategy: An Exploratory Study on Adoption and Use by Retailers

Carlota Lorenzo-Romero, Efthymios Constantinides and María-del-Carmen Alarcón-del-Amo

Culture and Social Media: Differences between the U.S. and Japan

Satoko Suzuki and Kosuke Takemura

Social Media in Emerging Markets: India and Mexico

Pramila Rao

Social Media in Human Resources Management

Advanced Series in Management, vol. 12

Tanya Bondarouk and Miguel R. Olivas-Luján

•              Social media have radically shifted the way people relate with each other and with organizations in technology-mediated ways; few areas are being impacted more strongly than Human Resources or Personnel Management.  Attraction of candidates, internal communication with employees, communication with and among people; creation, design, testing and promotion of new services, new ways of organizing are appearing and changing the landscape at record speeds.  This volume in the Advanced Series in Management utilizes empirical and theoretical approaches to shed light on this exciting set of emerging, stimulating new uses of technology that stretch creativity beyond conventional limits.

•              Experts from around the world have joined efforts to share their findings in this volume dedicated to students, researchers and informed practitioners. This variety of perspectives will enable a better understanding of how the social media revolution is pushing boundaries and challenging anyone involved in the management of people, the most unique of resources available to any organization. Diverse disciplinary views contribute to this book that will be cited in future projects, as well as used in classrooms and other training settings by those closer to the leading edge of adoption and use of these tools.  

Tentative Table of Contents

Introduction: Social Media in Human Resources Management

Tanya Bondarouk and Miguel R. Olivas-Luján

Employer Branding and its Effects on Organizational Attractiveness

Tanya Bondarouk, Huub Ruel and Wendy Weekhout

Managing Entitativity through Social Media

David A. Askay, Anita Blanchard and Jerome Stewart

Personae of Interest - Managers’ Identities and the Online Mirror

Giulia Ranzini and Christian Fieseler

Recruiting Gen-Yers through Social Media: Insights from the Italian Labour Market

Rita Bisola and Barbara Imperatori

Social Media and Recruitment: a Delphi Study

Aurélie Girard

Social Media as a Mechanism for Engagement?

Emma Parry and Adriano Solidoro

Social Media in Internal Communications: A View from Senior Management

Tanja Sedej and Gorazd Justinek

Social Network Screening: Pitfalls, Possibilities, and Parallels in Employment Selection

Donald H. Kluemper

The Integration of Online Face-to-face Social Networking: The Need for Managerial Reconfiguration

Barbara Imperatori and Dino Ruta

The role of Social Networking Site in the Global Talent Management

Huub Ruël

Towards the Development of a Social Information System Research Model

Opal Donaldson and Evan Duggan

Using Social Media for Job Search: Evidence from Generation Y Job Seekers

Lax Manroop and Julia Richardson

CFP: Social Media and Management

Social Media and Management

Call for Chapters, Advanced Series in Management

Tanya Bondarouk (University of Twente, The Netherlands; t.bondarouk@utwente.nl)

Miguel R. Olivas-Luján (Clarion University of Pennsylvania, USA; molivas@clarion.edu)

Deadline for submission of ideas or chapters: July 31st, 2012 (see details below)

Social media is a term currently in use to describe a wide variety of Information and Telecommunication Technologies (ICTs) whose common denominator is the ability to connect users in ways that enable bridging distance, time, and other traditional barriers.  Even though several “electronic facilities” have captured both general and business attention, it is clear that a high degree of environmental turbulence or high velocity exists, as both software (e.g., social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Xing, facebook, google+, Orkut, or MySpace; blogging sites such as Wordpress, blogspot or twitter; personal or organizational rich-media facilities like YouTube, Skype, Spotify, etc.) and hardware platforms (e.g., tablets, smartphones, thinbooks and other recent innovations) keep evolving at a blistering pace.  Systematic, rigorous research using best-available scientific evidence methodologies that document and analyze the use of this phenomenon in business are currently lagging behind this revolution; this scholarly book is an attempt to fill this knowledge gap to facilitate knowledge acquisition and diffusion, as well as enable the higher levels of understanding that may precede both the exploitation and the exploration of newer and more advanced tools and methodologies.

For this volume of the Advanced Series in Management, we are seeking chapters that will increase our understanding of how these emerging technologies are evolving, using the most rigorous social scientific methods and tools.  Topics that may best fit this volume’s editorial intentions include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Management of social media within and outside organizations (for recruitment, selection or other personnel decisions, for marketing, reputational and any other relevant business, non-profit, or work-related, governmental purposes)
• Development or evolution of new or customized products and services using social media as an information source or as a promotional vehicle in particular companies or industries
• Predictors, types and consequences of intra-organizational social media policy acceptance, rejection and diffusion gaps
• Influences of culture, legislative traditions, economic blocs, corporate descriptors, industrial characteristics, and any other aspect that may affect the development, management, and effectiveness of the use of social media
• Individual and social (from small group to national or cross-cultural levels) characteristics and factors that facilitate adoption, use and diffusion of social media for business and other work-related purposes
• Comparisons and contrasts of differential uses of social media in work contexts in emerging (e.g., Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle-East, etc.) or non-Western economic settings 
• Virtual, technologically mediated markets, life, work, newly developed, gamefied (or not) products or services, crowd-sourced or personally oriented, etc.

As a volume in the Advanced Series in Management, this scholarly book will contribute to researcher’s understanding of the development, antecedents, processes and consequences of social media in management around the world.  It may also be used as a reference in executive education programs or as a textbook in graduate (or advanced undergraduate) courses in accredited Colleges or Schools of Businesses, Technology Management, Information and Communication Systems, and similarly situated educational offerings.  Cross-disciplinary collaborations that include fieldwork or empirically supported findings (e.g., from experimental or quasi-experimental, large-scale, generalizable, longitudinal or cross-sectional studies, to deductive, rich, ethnographic, inductive, case-based methodologies) are particularly sought, as also are rigorous, tightly developed or grounded theory-building with an applied or pragmatic (e.g., design science) purpose.  Average chapter size is expected to hover around 3000 words (excluding references, figures, and tables). Only original work whose copyright is owned (or cleared) by the chapter authors and not considered for publication elsewhere can be considered for inclusion in the ASM series.

Scholars whose work is likely to fit this call for chapters are invited to contact the editors via email to discuss their ideas and in preliminary form assess whether their contribution would be included.  Brief descriptions (300 words or less) of the main contents of their chapter, their methodology and about 200-word author(s)’ bio(s) highlighting their expertise in the area should be sent to both editors for initial consideration, before August 31, 2012.  The editors for this series will also attend at the Academy of Management’s annual conference in Boston, MA (USA) this August (2012) and might be available for face-to-face conversations by appointment.  Highly qualified chapter authors (in addition to the book series’ editorial board) are also expected to review anonymously some of the chapters submitted for this volume, as part of their contribution. 

Important deadlines

• Preliminary screening of ideas for chapters: September 30^th, 2012 (this is a “soft” deadline)
• Acceptance notifications or requests for revisions: about four weeks after full chapter manuscript is received
• Submission of full manuscripts: No later than December 31^st, 2012
• Publication of volume: about four months after final, revised chapters have been received by the volume editors; expected in early to mid-2013.

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