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Social media-enabled individual dynamic capabilities: The boundary spanning perspective
Author(s)
Date Issued
2019
Publisher
Association for Information Systems
Citation
He, W., Ke, X., Du, H. S., & Liu, W. (2019). Social media-enabled individual dynamic capabilities: The boundary spanning perspective. In Wei, K. K., Huang, W. W., Lee, J. K., Xu, D., Jiang, J. J., Kim, H. W. (Eds.). PACIS 2019 Proceedings. PACIS 2019, X'ian, China. Association for Information Systems.
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Individuals perform various activities such as information acquisition, sharing, coordination and collaboration on social media more easily and frequently than ever before, which indeed enables them to become more adaptable and competent in changing environments. However, there are limited research and empirical evidence regarding the use of social media on the development of users’ individual capabilities. Drawing upon media system dependency, boundary spanning and dynamic capabilities literature, this study proposes the concept of individual dynamic capabilities and argues that diverse use of social media can help developing an individual’s dynamic capabilities through two important mechanisms: information processing and external representation. By unfolding whether and how social media use is beneficial to individual dynamic capabilities, this study contributes to several streams of IS research.
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