Organizations have capabilities for creating and sharing knowledge (intellectual capital) that give them their distinctive advantage over other institutional arrangements, such as markets (Ghoshal & Nahapiet, 1998). But, what is the basis of a firm’s knowledge development capabilities? At least in part, the answer is that these capabilities stem from the social capital that an organization poss...

in value creation process via finding and exploiting opportunities, entrepreneurs have to create and use social networks to gain access to resources and information and benefit from their social capital. the entrepreneurs’ activities, contacts and performance can influence the social capital of a society. this research reviews the previous research regarding the effect of sex segregation on soc...

introduction: social capital is multidimensional and it is about the value of social networks and relations between people. social capital refers to the relationships that forms the quality and quantity of the society’s social interactions. this study was designed to determine the relationship between social capital and faculty member’s job satisfaction in shiraz medical school. method: social ...

To the extent that knowledge is the most strategically important resource for sustainable competitive advantage, organizations must consciously and systematically manage their knowledge asset. In this paper, we explore how social media and social capital at the organizational level help organizations benefit from their knowledge management initiatives in turn improving organizational knowledge ...

As an effective way to share corporate social responsibility, corporate donation comes forth rapidly and has become a tendency. Based on the relative study, we construct the theoretical model and analyze the relationship between corporate donation and corporate competitive advantage. The results are listed that five donation characteristics, that is, donation aims, donation methods, donation su...

We illustrate two differential oligopoly games using, respectively, the capital accumulation dynamics à la Solow-Nerlove-Arrow, and the capital accumulation dynamics à la Ramsey. In both settings, we evaluate the effects of (gross) profit taxation, proving that there exist tax rates yielding the same steady state social welfare as under social planning. Contrary to the static approach, our dyna...

This paper presents a new algorithm, Magnitude Sensitive Competitive Learning (MSCL), which has the ability of distributing the unit weights following any magnitude calculated from the unit parameters or the input data inside the Voronoi region of the unit. This controlled behavior permits to surpass other standard Competitive Learning algorithms that only tend to concentrate neurons accordingl...

social capital is a multi-faceted phenomenon in social sciences that massively affects many social fields. it can be a helpful factor in promoting health. among the groups with high burnout, nurses have always shown higher levels of burnout. studies have revealed that social capital can be an important factor affecting burnout. this study aimed to determine the extent of the effect of social ca...

This is a draft version of a contribution to the conference volume following the 1999 SCALE conference on social capital (Amsterdam, december 9-11). It presents a conceptual approach to the measurement of social capital as defined on the level of individuals, with the aim to develop a yardstick for social capital that can be used in prospective studies investigating its productivity and goal sp...