extended abstract 1. introduction the area under study has several problems such as deficits in household spending, the high ratio of illiteracy and unemployment, the high number of children, the mistrust between villagers and so that these problems have created some obstacles on the way of rural development in the district. identify and analyze the issues and introduce proper solutions to elim...

the core concept of this article i.e. social capital consists of three main components: scope of social relations, level of social trust, and rate of reciprocity. the research is accomplished through 600 cases of indian and iranian female secondary school students and their parents, in two cities of chandigarh in india and tehran in iran. findings of the research show that the scope of social r...

Background: Social capital is an important interpersonal organizational resource that may affect health behaviors and seems to be an important factor in chronic diseases. Considering the lack of evidence on this topic, in the present study, we aimed at investigating the association between components of social capital, socioeconomic condition, and controlling Type 2 diabetes mellitus in Iran. M...

BACKGROUND Many studies suggest that social capital, defined as those intangible resources of a society or community (trust, participation and reciprocity), that might facilitate collective action, can be associated with positive health effects. AIM To explore the relationship between social capital an the level of mental health, in urban communities of Santiago, Chile. MATERIAL AND METHODS...

This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital indicator consisting of generalized and institutional trust, associational activities and civic norms. We test the hypothesis that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and human capital there is a posit...

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 ...

introduction: in today’s changing world, in addition with establishing human capital, supporting social capital is one of other challenges in organizational behavior. furthermore, social capital is a public characteristic, but it is resulted from individual efforts in making trust, relationships and cooperation. without social capital, staff would not have willingness to share information and k...