Responsibilities and Challenges of Social Media Managers

  • Christian Meske
  • Stefan Stieglitz
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 8018)

Abstract

Within the last years enterprises massively began to adapt social media for internal usage. They do so in order to increase their knowledge management as well as to make collaboration and communication more efficient. However, until now, very little is known about employees who are responsible for adaption processes and the management of the internal social media. In our study we conducted 15 interviews with “social media managers” of 15 large German enterprises. We found that the role of a social media manager is faced with enormous challenges (e.g. providing information about the added value of social media) while on the other hand they lack the power to make decisions (e.g. regarding staff and budget).

Keywords

social media manager Mintzberg manager roles 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Christian Meske
    • 1
  • Stefan Stieglitz
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Information Systems MuensterUniversity of MuensterGermany

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