Social Media Use and Potential in Business-to-Business Companies’ Innovation

Hannu Kärkkäinen, Jari Jussila and Jaani Väisänen
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Hannu Kärkkäinen: Department of Information Management and Logistics, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
Jaani Väisänen: South Carelian Adult Education Centre Aktiva, Lappeenranta, Finland

International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI), 2013, vol. 5, issue 1, 53-71

Abstract: The use, potential and challenges of social media in innovation have received little attention in the literature, especially from the standpoint of the business-to-business sector. Therefore, this paper focuses on bridging this gap. The purpose of this paper is to study the use and potential of social media in the innovation context, especially from the perspective of business-to-business companies. The paper starts by defining of social media and Web 2.0, and then characterizes social media in business, social media in the business-to-business sector and social media in the business-to-business innovation process. The paper also studies the essential differences between business-to-consumer and business-to-business in the given respects. Finally the authors present and analyze the results of their empirical survey of 110 respondents from Finnish companies. The results suggest that there is a significant gap between the perceived extensive potential of social media and current social media use in innovation in business-to-business companies. They have also identified potentially effective ways to reduce the gap, and clarify the found differences between B2B’s and B2C’s.

Date: 2013
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