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...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a perspective on the emergence of social media and their adoption as a critical element in knowledge management strategy. Social media are defined as the collection of software tools and web‐based applications that are personalized, that is,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide examples of evaluating value‐creating networks and to address the organizational issues and challenges of a network orientation. Design/methodology/approach – Value network analysis was first developed in 1993 and was adapted in 1997 for...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show the role of social networks in mobilizing how actors both impact and are impacted on by their colleagues. It seeks to compare the human resource management (HRM) academic community with two other comparable communities, and to identify those...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the theoretical foundations of the solidarity network concept and its perceived utility as an enabling force for social organizations to influence change. The theoretical framework presented is intended to stimulate dialogue, interest and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the key roles embedded in the informal organizational structure (informal networks) and to outline their contribution in the companies' performance. A major objective of the research is to find and characterize a new key informal role that...