The LinkedIn endorsement game: Why and how professionals attribute skills to others.

Chrysi Rapanta; Lorenzo Cantoni

doi:10.1177/2329490616677044

The LinkedIn endorsement game: Why and how professionals attribute skills to others.

Chrysi Rapanta, Lorenzo Cantoni

Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA)

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Abstract

The phenomenon of endorsing people for their professional skills on LinkedIn is more and more evident, and it grows along with the expansion of this broadly used professional networking website. This article focuses on the ease with which people endorse others and also accept endorsements and the potential impact of this action on people’s knowledge authority profile. An online survey was answered by 120 professionals from all over the world. The findings reveal some considerations regarding the interrelation between the act of endorsement and how personal, rather than epistemic, its criteria are. Implications for recruiters and educators are discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	443-459
Number of pages	17
Journal	Business and Professional Communication Quarterly
Volume	80
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/2329490616677044
Publication status	Published - Dec 2017

Keywords

LinkedIn
Social networking
Epistemic authority
Perceptions
Skills endorsement

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