Understanding Social Media and Entrepreneurship
The Business of Hashtags, Likes, Tweets and Stories
Editors: Schjoedt, Leon, Brännback, Malin E., Carsrud, Alan L. (Eds.)
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- Features contributions from preeminent scholars in entrepreneurship
- Covers topics such as gender, education and socioeconomics
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- About this book
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Social media offers an opportunity for people to enlarge their exposure to information; information about important changes and trends in technology, markets, government policies, or society in general that can facilitate entrepreneurship, business development, and more. Despite the widespread cultural and social effects of social media in the way people communicate and interact, little research has addressed the role of social media in entrepreneurship. This book fills this gap by exploring the influence and consequences social media has on entrepreneurship at the individual level, group level, venture (firm) level and societal level. Specific social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) will be explored as well as topics such as gender, education and socioemotional wealth.
- About the authors
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Leon Schjoedt is an Entrepreneurship Research Scholar at Babson College, USA. Leon’s research focuses on entrepreneurial behavior—the intersection between entrepreneurship and organizational behavior. Leon has published more than 60 articles and book chapters.
Malin Brännback is Chaired Professor in International Business at Åbo Akademi University, School of Business and Economics, Finland where she received her doctorate in management science in 1996. She has been Vice Rector of the university and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics. She has also been visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship at Stockholm University School of Business (Sweden). She has published widely on entrepreneurship, biotechnology business, and knowledge management.
Alan L. Carsrud has served on the graduate faculties of SUNY-Brockport, Texas A&M University, The University of Texas at Austin, the University of Southern California, the University of California at Los Angeles, Bond University, the Australian Graduate School of Management, Florida International University, Ryerson University, and Abo Akademi University (Finland). He has published over 200 research papers and 12 books in psychology, management, entrepreneurship, and family business. - Reviews
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“Understanding Social Media and Entrepreneurship offers an extraordinary return on readers’ time. … this book will inform and inspire future inquiry. Each chapter provides references to much background reading, specific addressable research questions, as well as credible frameworks and compelling examples.” (Noah Barsky, International Small Business Journal ISBJ, November 28, 2020)
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Social Media in an Entrepreneurship Context
Pages 3-13
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Social Media: Exploring Entrepreneurial Opportunities
Pages 15-28
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Social Media and Entrepreneurship: Exploring the Role of Digital Source Selection and Information Literacy
Pages 29-46
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Effectual Entrepreneur and the Use of Social Media for Opportunity Recognition
Pages 49-67
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Exploring the Gendered Nature of Digital Social Networks
Pages 69-91
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Understanding Social Media and Entrepreneurship
- Book Subtitle
- The Business of Hashtags, Likes, Tweets and Stories
- Editors
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- Leon Schjoedt
- Malin E. Brännback
- Alan L. Carsrud
- Series Title
- Exploring Diversity in Entrepreneurship
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-43453-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-43453-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-43452-6
- Series ISSN
- 2567-7357
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 218
- Number of Illustrations
- 9 b/w illustrations
- Topics
