Previous studies rarely examined the relationship between intellectual capital and competitive advantage. Most studies underestimate the shift towards knowledge based economy where, capital and work are no longer the differentiating and generating factors of sustainable competitive advantage. Relatively, little is known in the literature about how intellectual capital affects competitive advant...

social capital referred to communications and links that based on trust and formed between human and institutional collections as a valuable source. this article aimed to explore the social capital concept and its indicators and how to evaluation its criteria, and then compare this variables in executive organization of qom province until can introduce a clear illustration about this concept. t...

today, in addition to physical capital, social capital, entrepreneurship is the determining factor. therefore, this study was designed to investigate the influence of social capital on entrepreneurship; to evaluate the impact of social capital on entrepreneurial innovation is the role of mediator. the study had a sample of 130 female entrepreneurs ilam through simple random sampling has been do...

Research on social capital has found that individuals who access resources through social relations gain competitive advantage and systems with high levels or desirable distributions of social capital are more effective. These effects depend on actors allocating resources to others in their social system at-large instead of to others with whom they share specific social relationships. It is hyp...

background: social capital causes promoting community members’ participation level as set of norms among community systems. we aimed to determination between perceived social capital with relevant factors among health workers in medical and health network of rey city.   methods: this study was a cross sectional one which assessed determination between social capital and relevant factors among h...

social capital can improve industrial growth via different mechanisms. in this study, taking the improvement of technology through social capital as one of the mechanisms, we have analyzed the effect of social capital on industrial growth theoretically and empirically. according to the findings of the article, derived from our cointegration model, and iranian economic data (1966-2006), social c...

Strategic buyer–supplier relationships are increasingly viewed in both the scholarly and practitioner literatures as key drivers of sustainable competitive advantage. In particular, relationship specific adaptations – the extent to which exchange members make tangible or intangible adaptations for a partner – are acknowledged as one of the central issues. Such adaptations need to be examined in...