objectives: this research is a comparative study of the level of social capital in tehran university and sharif university of technology libraries.method: the research method is composed of survey and comparative study. statistical population included all librarians affiliated to central and college libraries of sharif university of technology together with librarians affiliated to central libr...

municipalities in developing countries spend the highest proportion of their annual budget on unsatisfactory solid waste management service. until recently, solid waste management services in ethiopia were mainly the responsibilities of municipalities, which culminated in inadequate service provision. thus, the integration of micro and small enterprises (mses) by the government has recently bei...

Theoretical approaches as well as empirical results in the area of social capital accumulation on social networking sites suggest that weak ties/bridging versus strong ties/bonding social capital should be distinguished and that while bonding social capital is connected to emotional support, bridging social capital entails the provision of information. Additionally, recent studies imply the not...

This study intends to understand why the social network sites users continue to use the service and why would they turn to other social network services. By integrating the honesty of self-disclosure with confirmation and three dimensions of social capital with perceived usefulness, we establish a new expectation confirmation model to understand the continuance intention of social network sites...

attracting customers in service industries has a noticeable effect on increasing the competitiveness of enterprises. this study aims to examine customers return in the field of customer relationship management. given that no systematic research has been performed relating to the concept of customers return in iran, this study presents an experimental model which identifies the factors leading t...

This study aimed to explore whether individual cognitions and neighbourhood social capital strengthen each other in their relation with engaging in sports at least three times per week. Cross-sectional analyses on data from the last wave of the YouRAction trial (2009-2010, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; baseline response: 98%) were conducted. In total 1129 had data on the last wave questionnaire (...

Social capital is a relatively new concept in the social sciences and is one of the most important challenges of new era in a way that based on experts’ comments, the solution for all the problems of today’s modern world is social capital. To this end, one of the problems that managers of organizations particularly; service and manufacturing organizations have faced with today is lack of trust ...

The Internet has changed from an information tool to a social tool. More and more people use social networking sites such as Facebook to build and maintain numerous interpersonal relationships. The benefits of online social interaction can be manifested in bridging and bonding social capital. This study examined how the four dimensions of perceived interactivity (control, synchronicity, surveil...

the aim of present study was to comparison men with social capital are so important for organizations and they are considered as rare assets. the significance of factors effecting social capital is increased day by day. organizational justice can be one of these factors. so, the aim of the current study was to investigate the effect of perceived organizational justice on the social capital leve...