the study of the impact of social capital on intention to knowledge sharing evidence from: pharmaceutical industries employee of guilan province

in an economy based on knowledge, organizations use their employees’ knowledge as a resource for creating and increasing organizational value and their success depends on their ability to manage their rare and volatile resources. one of the important organizational capabilities is social capital which can greatly help organizations to create and share knowledge as well as to create “permanent organizational advantage. “the purpose of this paper is to study the role of social capital in knowledge sharing in medical industries of guilan province. this research is a correlational research and data has been collected based on survey methods. the population consists of experts and managers working in pharmaceutical companies of guilan province. data was collected from 103 experts. in this regard, were used two standard questionnaires of social capital and knowledge sharing .the findings, which were obtained through regression analysis shows that social capital impact on increasing knowledge sharing. however, among the three dimensions of social capital, cognitive social capital plays the most important role in improving knowledge sharing and then relational social capital have the significant role in improving knowledge sharing. but in the present study, in multiple regression analysis, the structural dimension of social capital did not play a significant role in knowledge sharing.