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Paper of the BAS team accepted for presentation at the ECIS 2017

25th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2017), June 7 to 10, 2017, Guimarães, Portugal

We are pleased that our paper “Why Are We Doing This Again? Towards Uncovering the Outcome Perspective of Enterprise Social Software Use” has been accepted for a poster presentation at the 25th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2017) as well as for the publication in the conference proceedings. Sven Dittes will present the paper at the ECIS 2017, taking place from June 7 to 10, 2017 in Guimarães, Portugal.

Sven Dittes, Stefan Smolnik: Why Are We Doing This Again? Towards Uncovering the Outcome Perspective of Enterprise Social Software Use

Abstract: Growing numbers of companies are implementing enterprise social software (ESS) in its various forms. The adoption and use of those information systems (IS), such as wikis, weblogs, social networking sites, or platforms that combine and integrate various of those IS, is said to have various kinds of impact on organizations. Such impacts include increased productivity or improved innovation levels. In our study, we aim to provide a more holistic overview of the various outcomes of ESS use. In doing this, we conduct a literature review to collect a list of ESS use outcomes, and apply coding techniques to categorize and order these outcomes. Our study contributes to both theory and practice: Our understanding of the outcome perspective of ESS use is advanced, thus answering various calls for re- search, and management of the value creation process becomes more transparent and more feasible due to the introduction of ESS.