Social Media Analytics for Operations and Supply Chain Management: Opportunities, Challenges, and Paradoxes

Aseem Kinra*, Fabian Siekmann, Herbert Kotzab

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Abstract

Industrial and academic communities in the field of operations and supply chain management (OSCM) have been paying increasing attention to social media analytics (SMA). However, the disparity of social media has inspired new ways of thinking about how data are produced, organized, and analyzed. This chapter addresses how OSCM is affected by this disparity and provides an overview of SMA use, applications, and challenges in the domain. A directed content analysis of current application-oriented research is carried out to review SMA in OSCM from a signaling theory perspective. In particular, we shed light on data sources, opportunities, challenges, paradoxes, and current managerial issues and seek to inform research practices and policy in order to advance operations and supply chain management research. The chapter contributes to the understanding of SMA in OSCM by identifying a set of paradoxes and challenges that have not previously been identified in OSCM research. By relating SMA to social media data sources and OSCM activities, it sheds light on preferred sources and application scenarios and discusses the imponderables of social media signal processing in OSCM.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDiginomics Research Perspectives : The Role of Digitalization in Business and Society
EditorsLars Hornuf
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer
Publication date11 Sept 2022
Pages185–212
ISBN (Print)9783031040627
ISBN (Electronic)9783031040634
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Sept 2022
Externally publishedYes
SeriesAdvanced Studies in Diginomics and Digitalization (ASDD)
ISSN2731-0477

Keywords

  • Operations and Supply Chain Management
  • Social media analytics
  • Data quality

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