A144Chen, X., Wei, S., Davison, R. M., & Rice, R. E. (2020). How do enterprise social media affordances affect social network ties and job performance?  Information Technology and People, 33(1), 361-388. https://doi.org/10.1108/ITP-11-2017-0408


The purpose of this article is to investigate how four enterprise social media (ESM) affordances (visibility, association, editability and persistence) affect social network ties (instrumental and expressive), which, in turn, influence the in-role and innovative job performance of employees. All four affordances are positively associated with instrumental ties, yet only the association and editability affordances are positively related to expressive ties. Although instrumental and expressive ties are positively related to in-role and innovative job performance, instrumental ties exert stronger effects on in-role job performance, whereas expressive ties show stronger effects on innovative job performance.

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