Purpose – The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, it intends to analyze the influence of human capital and social capital on the second of the stages in the process of entrepreneurial creation established by Shane and Venkataraman (2000), the discovery of opportunities for creating a business. Secondly, it aims to analyze the existence of gender differences both in the discovery of o...

This article intends to estimate the optimal value of investment and human capital in R&D sector of Iranian economy using an augmented endogenous growth model. To do so, two issues have been studied. First, an endogenous growth model has been extended to include investment in R&D as an independent variable. In the framework of this model, in order to determine the optimal value of investment an...

Sustainable Livelihoods Approach emerged in the 1980s as a new analytical approach in the field of rural development inwhich the rural livelihood capitals form the basis of the villagers' empowerment and their ability to get involved in their own individual and social destiny. This study aimed to answer the question that how much the importance of each type of livelihood capitals is in the Cent...

Abstract As one of the countries with largest Muslim population globally, Indonesia is trying to overcome poverty by driving community’s economy through various economic institutions, which sharia cooperatives. But unfortunately, even though majority Indonesian Muslim, cooperatives are less attractive public and have a slow performance compared conventional Various previous studies stated that ...

regarding the importance and high proportion of iranian manufacturing industries' export in nonoil export basket, and their impact on economic growth, it is essential that effective factors on the manufacturing industries' export be investigated. this paper investigates the impact of human capital on the export of iranian industries, using a panel data set of 2-digit isic manufacturing industri...

While Traditional knowledge management emphasis is more on the technology and designing information systems, modern approaches focus more on human resources and their behaviors in knowledge sharing. So this research aims to investigate the influence of social capital on knowledge sharing between human resources of Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC) by focusing on human features of knowledge sharin...

family that is the most important social institution, has attracted the attraction of scientists and sociologist. because of the importance of family and its distinguished role, some social capital analyzers and theorists have identified the family as an important source or the device of social capital. in order to achieve the purpose, democratic families, autocratic families, human capital of ...