the main purpose of this study was to investigate the factors influencing personnel’s attitude toward knowledge sharing in agricultural extension and education organization in iranian ministry of jihad-e agriculture. a survey method was employed for the study, with 110 personnel being randomly selected as a sample out of 140 personnel who were working in the organization and finally 80 question...

This study builds a multi-level research model to investigate how social capital between business units and the headquarters in large-scale organizations influences individual user acceptance of enterprise systems. Drawing on social capital theory and the human agency theory, this study argues that local management of business units plays the role of interpreting signals and messages from the h...

Purpose – On the health care industry, the paper aims to study the effects of intellectual capital, identify using an input-process-output concept of human, customer, innovative and process capitals, on company performances. Design/methodology/approach – From a resource-based and intellectual capital perspective, the structural path model is applied to financial data to analyze the six-value cr...

Trust can be viewed at the same time as an instrument both for an agent selecting the right partners in order to achieve its own goals, and for an agent of being selected from other potential partners in order to establish with them a cooperation/collaboration and to take advantage from the accumulated trust. In this paper we will analyze trust as the agents’ relational capital. Starting from t...

This article integrates social network and exchange theory to develop a model of customer value based on three relational drivers: relationship quality (the caliber of relational ties), contact density (the number of relational ties), and contact authority (the decision-making capability of relational contacts). The results suggest that the value generated from interfirm relationships derives n...

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 th...

In this paper, a specific form of human capital is analyzed, relational capital, which consists of matches between market parties. Search and information costs make these matches valuable to both parties. Its peculiarity is that the control over such matches is transferred within firms from those who initially control it to anyone who works with it for