Reference and authors

Topic

Purpose

Key findings

(Abelsen et al., 2021)

Information

technology,

professional performance, and socialization; Covid-19.

To investigate the relationship between information technology use, professional performance, and employee socialization during Covid-19.

High task-technology fit has both directly and indirectly influenced the work performance of individuals.

Designing ICTs in line with task-technology fit principles reduces an individual’s loneliness at home. At the same time, it gives them the ability to perform better in their work-related tasks.

(Zhang et al., 2016)

Socialization, discontinuous usage behaviour, and social networks.

By using the stressor-strain-outcome framework, an investigation is conducted to address the antecedents and outcomes of fatigue in the SNS context.

System features, information, and social overload induce social network fatigue.

System feature overload and social network fatigue cause dissatisfaction.

Social network fatigue and dissatisfaction influence discontinuous use intention.

(Cai et al., 2020)

The contributions of social media

to newcomers’ socialization.

To examine of the impact of the intensity of social media usage on newcomers’ socialization and its boundary conditions.

The intensity of social media usage has positive effects on performance proficiency and interpersonal relationships.

(Barkhuus & Tashiro, 2010)

Students’ socialization

via Facebook.

To focus on offline socializing structured around Facebook and how this can facilitate in-person social activities for students.

Online social networks are a powerful tool for encouraging peripheral friendships.

(Ellwardt et al., 2012)

A social network perspective on

workplace gossip.

To analyse of the antecedents of becoming the object of gossip.

Employees spread both positive and negative gossip about colleagues from their own work group.

Negative gossip is directed towards colleagues who have few friends in the organizational network.

Negative gossip is concentrated on a few individuals in the network,

whereas positive gossip is not.

(Loh et al., 2022)

The negative effects of mobile

learning via social media.

From the perspective of stimulus-organism- response theory, this study examines the influences of mobile learning via social media on university students.

Technostress and exhaustion account for more than half of the students’ low performance and are significant facilitators of students’ reduced intention to use mobile learning via social media.

(Chen et al., 2020b)

How enterprises’ social media affordances affect social network ties and job performance.

To investigate how four enterprise social media (ESM) affordances (visibility, association, editability, and persistence) affect social network ties (instrumental and expressive), which, in turn, influence the in-role and innovative job performance of employees.

All four affordances are positively associated with instrumental ties; however, only the association and editability affordances are positively related to expressive ties. Although instrumental and expressive ties are positively related to in-role and innovative job performance, instrumental ties exert stronger effects on in-role job performance, whereas expressive ties show stronger effects on innovative job performance.

(Park et al., 2017)

Is social networking a waste of time?

The impact of social network and knowledge characteristics on job performance.

To investigate the impact of social networks on job performance by focusing on knowledge quality and diversity using social network theory and the knowledge-based view.

The empirical analysis reveals that the strength of social network ties is strongly associated with knowledge quality in offline interactions, while social network diversity is associated with knowledge quality in online interactions. Knowledge quality acquired from social networks has a significant impact on both creativity and productivity in relation to job performance in the workplace.

(Chen & Wei, 2020)

The effect of social media on employees’ job performance with reference to the information technology (IT) sector.

To examine the effect of social media on employees’ job performance.

The results show that the effectiveness of social media is strongly correlated with employee job performance, and especially with task performance and contextual performance.