TY - THES U1 - Bachelor Thesis A1 - Tongbong, Marie Louise T1 - The Impact of Viral Marketing on B2B Small and Medium Enterprises in Germany N2 - The advertising industry has strongly changed over the past years. Obviously, the coming of digital media has created networking between consumers and revolutionized traditional marketing toward companies building lasting relationship with potential customers and thereby generating an exponential growth in exposure and influence still called viral marketing. Despite the fact that viral marketing is an old topic, its relevancy in the business area is quite recent. However, little research is devoted to the adoption and internal usage of social media in SMEs, which are of high social and economic importance. Findings of numerous researches on this topic have been constructed on the B2C market. For this reasons, the aim of this study seeks to address the gap in knowledge regarding the use of social media in the B2B SMEs in Germany. KW - Viral marketing KW - Digital marketing KW - B2B KW - B2C KW - Social media KW - SMEs Y2 - 2017 SP - 40 S1 - 40 ER -