Social media and management fashions

Building on the Theory of Management Fashions Information Technology Fashions: Building on the Theory of Management Fashions

Recent studies of management fashions have used discourse data that contributed to our understanding of the forces underlying the rise and fall in popularity of new management techniques. Like management fashions, there are many IT (information technology) fashions. Testing the extent to which the theory of management fashions apply to IT fashions help us better understand not only IT fashions ...

Social media and impression management: Veterinary medicine students’ and faculty members’ attitudes toward the acceptability of social media posts

Introduction: While social media has the potential to be used tomake professional and personal connections, it can also be usedinappropriately, with detrimental ramifications for the individualin terms of their professional reputation and even hiringdecisions. This research explored students’ and faculty members’perceptions of the acceptability of various social media postings.Methods: This cro...

Management Techniques : Transient Fads or Trending Fashions ?

Social Media for Cold Management

Social media has been increasingly used to manage emergencies (hot management), yet it is still unclear to which extent its use is truly beneficial to manage calm situations (cold management). Take socioeconomic deprivation of cities. Measuring it in an accurate and timely fashion has become a priority for governments around the world. Traditionally, deprivation indexes have been derived from c...

Emergency Management, Twitter, and Social Media Evangelism

This paper considers how emergency response organizations utilize available social media technologies to communicate with the public in emergencies and to potentially collect valuable information using the public as sources of information on the ground. The authors discuss the use of public social media tools from the emergency management professional’s viewpoint with a particular focus on the ...