Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how contests can be used to generate interest in a particular brand. Design/methodology/approach – The paper studies the psyche of young consumers and examines the role of social networks and how young consumers rely on this media for new and...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine motivations for young consumers' internet use, how these motivations relate to children's privacy concerns and, subsequently, children's willingness to disclose personally identifiable information. Design/methodology/approach – The strengths of three...

Purpose – Aims to investigate the way that the semantic web is being used to represent and process social network information. Design/methodology/approach – The Swoogle semantic web search engine was used to construct several large data sets of Resource Description Framework (RDF) documents...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to examine social networks from a Western and Eastern view. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses case study methodology to gather evidence of how world pioneering firms from Asia and Europe measure and report their social connections from a Western...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to focus on the role of networks in organizations as a critical aspect of knowledge management and learning processes. Design/methodology/approach – The article has built on an established technique, namely SNA, by shifting from individuals to...

Purpose – This article seeks to propose that the success of an organization's knowledge‐sharing strategy and the magnitude of its strategic capital are critically dependent on its having the capability to visualize relationship‐networks among its employees, and means to identify and...

Purpose – To illustrate the need for social network metadata within semantic metadata. Design/methodology/approach – Surveys properties of social networks and the semantic web, suggests that social network analysis applies to semantic content, argues that semantic content is more searchable...

The business lunch may take different forms, according to cultural and culinary traditions, but it remains a popular way of going about doing business. Despite today’s heavy workloads and the pressures for efficiency, the business lunch appears to keep its popularity, showing the importance of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore and map the intellectual structure of leadership studies during 1997‐2006. This paper also attempts to help researchers identify the important publications and the influential scholars as well as the correlations among these publications...

Traditional environments consist not only of physical buildings and spaces but also the people and their activities which take place within them. This paper examines some aspects of the interrelationship between people and places. Traditional social values are believed to be undermined by the...