TY - CHAP U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Rossmann, Alexander A1 - Stei, Gerald ED - Zimmermann, Alfred T1 - Sales 2.0 in business-to-business (B2B) Networks : conceptualization and impact of social media in B2B Sales relationships T2 - Digital Enterprise Computing (DEC 2015) : June 25-26, 2015, Böblingen, Germany N2 - In recent years, the rise of the digital transformation received significant importance in Business-to-Business (B2B) research. Social media applications provide executives with a raft of new options. Consequently, interfaces to social media platforms have also been integrated into B2B salesforce applications, although very little is as yet known about their usage and general impact on B2B sales performance. This paper evaluates 1) the conceptualization of social media usage in a dyadic B2B relationship; 2) the effects of a more differentiated usage construct on customer satisfaction; 3) antecedents of social media usage on multiple levels; and 4) the effectiveness of social media usage for different types of customers. The framework presented here is tested cross-industry against data collected from dyadic buyer seller relationships in the IT service industry. The results elucidate the preconditions and the impact of social media usage strategies in B2B sales relations. KW - social media KW - salesforce applications KW - business-to-business KW - customer satisfaction Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-6017 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-6017 UR - http://subs.emis.de/LNI/Proceedings/Proceedings244/article21.html SN - 978-3-88579-638-1 SB - 978-3-88579-638-1 SP - 67 EP - 78 S1 - 12 PB - Gesellschaft für Informatik CY - Bonn ER -