Its time to press this blog into service once more.
I’ve enrolled for the doctoral programme at Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi. The title of my PhD is (tentatively): “Social Media for Competitive Advantage: A Study of Select Indian Organizations”. This research will focus on studying, analyzing and evolving a model for usage of Social Media technologies for competitive advantage by businesses, specifically within the Indian context.
That’s a bit vague right now but my hope is that I will be able to bring out how usage of social media can be a source of competitive advantage for organizations. As part of this research, I will also work on evolving a model — sort of a maturity model, but really detailed and based on interviews. This research model will map sources of competitive advantage (probably based on Porter’s framework) against maturity levels and dimensions. The model will eventually describe key characteristics for each level and what an organization needs to do to go from one level to another in terms of capabilities required for using Social Media to achieve competitive advantage.
The best way to research social media is to use social media and so i’ll be posting updates here in the hope of getting feedback and insights. Please leave a comment below or email me (apoorvdurga at gmail) if you would like to share how you use social media within your organization.
The best part of doing research in this area (social media) is that I won’t feel guilty about spending time on Facebook :).