Table 7.
A summary of the related literature
| Study | The premise of the study | |
|---|---|---|
| SNS use | (James et al., 2017) | Studied the use of SNS for social support and companionship |
| (Chen et al., 2014) | Studied the influence of commitment on SNS behavior | |
| (Ihm, 2015) | Studied the influence of communication and community formation on SNS engagement | |
| (Wu, 2013) | Studied the effect of employee’s network position on work outcomes | |
| Social capital | (Lee, 2013) | High levels of Facebook use were associated with high levels of bridging social capital |
| (Hofer & Aubert, 2013) | Investigated the influence of Twitter use on social capital | |
| (Ellison et al., 2007) | Investigated the influence of Facebook use on social capital | |
| (Steinfield et al., 2009) | Investigated the association between social capital and the use of organizational SNS | |
| (Huang et al., 2019) | Examined the association between social capital, and informational and emotional support | |
| (Cummings & Dennis, 2018) | Examined the influence of information sharing on enterprise SNS on impression formation and perception of social capital | |
| (Chen et al., 2016) | Studied the influence of relational social capital on continued use of SNS | |
| (Ellison et al., 2014) | Studied the relationship between Facebook behavior and bridging social capital | |
| (Jin, 2013) | Investigated the role of the technology readiness and acceptance model in building social capital | |
| (Horng & Wu, 2020) | Explored SNS behavior and social capital antecedents to social commerce intention | |
| (Zhao et al., 2012) | Examined the role of social capital and users’ sense of belonging towards sharing of experiences and knowledge on SNS | |
| (Cao, et al., 2015) | Investigated the role of SNS in supporting knowledge integration from a social capital perspective | |
| (Ali-hassan et al., 2015) | Investigated the effect of social media use on job performance mediated by social capital | |
| Perceived benefit | (Lam et al., 2016) | Studied the impact of the firm’s SNS initiatives on operational efficiency and innovation |
| (Moser & Deichmann, 2020) | Examined the effect of social capital and cultural factors on knowledge sharing on SNS | |
| (Pan et al., 2015) | Studied the dyadic knowledge exchanges in virtual communities of practice | |
| (French et al., 2017) | Examined the effect of perceived value from SNS in influencing continued use of SNS | |
| (Chen & Wei, 2020) | Studied the impact of SNS use for communication and social exchange relationships on employee performance | |
| (Schniederjans et al., 2013) | Studied the effect of a firm’s SNS activities on impression and financial performance | |
| (Li et al., 2020) | Studied the effect of perceived benefit from SNS on adoption intention | |
| SNS attachment | (Lee, 2013) | Studied the impact of anxiety and avoidance tenets of attachment on social capital formation on SNS |
| (Wan et al., 2017) | Examined how users’ donation intention is determined by the emotional attachment to the content creator and social factors and information factors | |
| (VanMeter et al., 2015) | Studied the effect of attachment to social media on the social media activities of consumers | |
| (Chung et al., 2016) | Studied SNS interactions for different types of bond-based and identity-based SNS attachment | |
| (Chen et al., 2019) | Studied the influence of anxiety and avoidance tenets of attachment on self-disclosure behavior on SNS | |
| (Kim et al., 2016) | Studied the effect of social capital of SNS attachment and loyalty |