analysis of the relationship between social capital index using fuzzy dematel technique

social capital is a concept which has attracted the attention of scientists in various fields including management in recent years. the literature on social capital concept has several dimensions and indicators and their relation with many other variables has been studied. the important point is that although the dimensions and indicators can be analyzed separately, they are not isolated and they have interrelated. in this regard, this paper seeks to identify causal relationships between the dimensions and indicators of social capital concept. using views of 14 experts in this field at university of tehran and applying the fuzzy dematel technique, the cause and effect impact of each of the indicators of social capital in the network of interactions among them was determined. the results showed that cognitive and structural indicators of social capital are in the cause group and relational indicators are in the effect group.