Abstract
Upon completion of this chapter, you will be able to:
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Understand the concept of the social enterprise and its variants.
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Describe business-oriented public social networks, their characteristics, and benefits.
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Describe the major social commerce activities that can be conducted within and by enterprises and the characteristics of such private social networks.
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Review the social commerce activities and their relationship with e-entertainment and gaming.
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Describe social gaming and gamification.
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Define crowdsourcing and describe its use in social commerce.
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Describe social collaboration and its benefits.
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Comment of the future of social commerce.
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Turban, E., Outland, J., King, D., Lee, J.K., Liang, TP., Turban, D.C. (2018). Social Enterprise and Other Social Commerce Topics. In: Electronic Commerce 2018. Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58715-8_9
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