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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The Social Media and SMEs Business Growth : How can SMEs Incorporate Social Media

Yan, Lina, Musika, Carol January 2018 (has links)
Background: The dramatic increase of the popularity of social media has affected in a large extent how SMEs reach and engage with their target customers to promote their products or services and to brand their firms. How SMEs incorporate social media for better business growth has gained huge attention from both academic and industrial sectors. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify and evaluate the aspects that are incorporated by SMEs when implementing social media in order to gain knowledge how SMEs could incorporate those factors when implementing social media. Research questions: What are those aspects that SMEs are incorporating to implement social media? Methodology: This study adopts six semi-structured interviews with six case organizations to identify and evaluate the aspects that are incorporated by SMEs to implement social media in the context of Sweden. Three small size and three medium-size firms in Växjö, Sweden who use social media for business purposes have been selected. Conclusion: The findings of this research identified and evaluated several aspects that are incorporated by all SMEs to implement social media in the context of Sweden: decision making about platform(s) and their deploying; governance responsibility; value metrics; accessibility; risk management; online community followers growing; content creation and updating; incentive strategy; monitoring social media sites; comments utilizing for future development; message processing rules; customer feedback timelines and report creating and sharing. The result shows the new approach of social media implementation which brought by Culnan, McHugh, and Zubillaga (2010) can help the researchers to identify and evaluate the aspects that SMEs are incorporating to implement social media, and chose to acquire knowledge that they can take advantage of from those aspects to incorporate and reinforce their social media implementation. Equally by putting into practice these aspects SMEs foster their growth in a number of ways such as customer relations, external and internal communication and several other ways.
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Sociala mediers betydelse vid bankers kreditgivning till företag

Odd, Gabriella, Strebel, Cornelia January 2016 (has links)
Användningen av sociala medier ökar allt mer i dagens samhälle och banker använder sig i dagsläget av sociala medier till kundservice samt i marknadsföringssyfte. Banker är den vanligaste finansieringskällan av externt kapital för små företag i Sverige och för att undvika kreditförluster gör banker en kreditbedömning av det kreditsökande företaget. I en anställningsprocess som kan likna personbedömning vid kreditgivning används sociala medier, detta väckte författarnas intresse att undersöka möjligheten att även använda sociala medier vid kreditgivning. Användning av sociala medier vid kreditgivning har tidigare inte studerats och syftet med denna studie är därför att skapa förståelse för hur och varför sociala medier beaktas i bankers kreditgivning till företag samt beskriva i vilka delar av kreditgivningsprocessen banker använder sig av sociala medier. Genom tolv kvalitativa intervjuer med kreditgivare och ansvariga för sociala medier har studiens problem- formulering besvarats. Hur och varför används sociala medier i bankers kreditgivning till företag? Resultatet av denna studie visar att kreditgivare använder sig av samt kan tänka sig att använda sociala medier vid kreditgivning till företag. I dagsläget är användningen begränsad men sociala medier används till viss del för att skapa ett första intryck och känsla för kredittagaren innan första mötet. Detta leder till både teoretiska och praktiska implikationer beträffande sociala mediers användning vid kreditgivning. Sociala medier inverkar i olika utsträckning i kreditgivningsprocessen med störst påverkan i det första steget, kreditansökan, men även vid kredituppföljning som varningssignaler och indirekt vid kreditbedömning och när kreditbeslutet tas. Sociala medier kan dessutom utgöra ytterligare ett nätverk för kreditgivaren och leda till att en bättre personbedömning görs, banken kan därmed undvika kreditförluster. Studien har även bidragit till att utveckla en modell som förenklar kreditgivarnas förståelse för hur de kan beakta sociala medier vid kreditgivning. / The use of social media is increasing in today's society, and in the current situation, banks use social media for customer service and for marketing purposes. For small businesses in Sweden, banks are the most common source of financing of external capital, and to avoid credit losses, banks makes a credit assessment of the credit applicant. In the recruitment process, that could resemble the personal assessment when granting loans, social media is used; this has brought the authors interest in exploring the possibility of also using social media in the lending process. Since the use of social media in lending previously never have been studied, the purpose of this study is to understand how and why social media are taken into account in banks lending to companies, and also to describe in what parts of the lending process banks use social media. Twelve qualitative interviews with lenders and managers of social media have been done to answer the problem statement. How and why do banks use social media in lending to businesses? The results of this study show that creditors use and are willing to use social media in credit granting for companies. In the current situation, the use of social media is limited but is to some extent used to create a first impression and feeling of the borrower before the first meeting. This leads to both theoretical and practical implications regarding the use of social media in lending. Social media affects the credit granting process in varying degrees with the greatest impact at the first stage, the credit application. It also affects the follow-up of the credit as warning signals, and indirectly the credit assessment and credit decision. Social media can also form an additional network for the creditor and lead to a better assessment of the applicant, through this; the bank can avoid credit losses. The study has also developed a model that facilitates lenders understanding of how to incorporate social media in credit granting.

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