“…Venkatesh et al (2007) provide a summary of the research undertaken in the technology adoption field and encourage further research to leverage existing knowledge. We argue that social media is different from other technologies whose adoption by B2B organizations has already been examined by TAM, such as sales force automation systems (Jones, Sundaram, & Chin, 2002), mobile information technology (Lee & Park, 2008) and CRM software (Avlonits & Panagopoulos, 2005) because a) social media do not demand such a significant initial investment as in the case of other technologies, b) social media platforms are neither owned by companies nor are they within companies' control (Christodoulides, 2009), and c) social media content is usually jointly generated by organizations and external stakeholders such as prospective and existing customers (Singh & Sonnenburg, 2012).…”