Strengthening Social Ties via ICT in the Organization
| dc.contributor.author | Torro, Osku | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pirkkalainen, Henri | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-12-29T02:02:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-12-29T02:02:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-01-04 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Knowledge work increasingly relies on the \ utilization of information and communication \ technology (ICT). However, communication and \ knowledge sharing via ICT may be challenging due \ the lack of physical face-to-face interaction. The \ strength of social ties is critical to the success of an \ organization, since it determines how deeply \ individuals interact with each other. Prior research \ has paid only limited attention to the role of ICT in \ the strengthening of social ties within an \ organization. To address this research gap, we have \ conducted a qualitative study outlining different tie \ strengthening characteristics of ICT. The results of \ this study suggest that especially asynchronous and \ synchronous text based interaction and \ communication history forms an effective mechanism \ for an organization to facilitate social ties. As a \ theoretical contribution, we develop a new \ theoretical model representing the intra- \ organizational characteristics of ICT in relation to \ media synchronicity and tie strength. This theoretical \ model also includes new tie-strength components for \ ICT-mediated interaction. | |
| dc.format.extent | 10 pages | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.24251/HICSS.2017.666 | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-0-9981331-0-2 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/41828 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences | |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Information and communications technology | |
| dc.subject | media synchronicity | |
| dc.subject | organization | |
| dc.subject | social ties | |
| dc.subject | tie strength | |
| dc.title | Strengthening Social Ties via ICT in the Organization | |
| dc.type | Conference Paper | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text |
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