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...

Intellectual capital reports usually consist of descriptions of various non-financial capital forms, such as for example “relational capital”. Considering relational capital as knowledge networks we explain the creation, transformation and re-use of knowledge with the help of the theory of social systems where knowledge is seen as a cooperative social construction. As a method for visualizing a...

Wikis are interactive Web 2.0 tools that enable collaboration and knowledge sharing. Wiki-enabled collaboration is ideal in an educational setting, yet is prone to free-riding. This study examined the impact of the relational social capital of undergraduate students on their wiki usage and free-riding in a group project. Preliminary findings reveal that characteristics of relational social capi...

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...

in an economy based on knowledge, organizations use their employees’ knowledge as a resource for creating and increasing organizational value and their success depends on their ability to manage their rare and volatile resources. one of the important organizational capabilities is social capital which can greatly help organizations to create and share knowledge as well as to create “permanent o...

Strategic buyer–supplier relationships are increasingly viewed in both the scholarly and practitioner literatures as key drivers of sustainable competitive advantage. In particular, relationship specific adaptations – the extent to which exchange members make tangible or intangible adaptations for a partner – are acknowledged as one of the central issues. Such adaptations need to be examined in...

The impact of social networks on features of embedded couples, like, for instance, marital stability, has been discussed in sociology for about half a century. However, empirical findings are little cumulative and lack a theoretical integration. We present a framework for the analysis of couples, where their social embeddedness is conceptualized as social capital. Two aspects or dimensions of s...

The authors consider that social networks are important artifacts of organizations. The relational capital of an organization tends to include intangible factors, and consequently, it is not always possible to have this value from accounting systems because it is almost invisible in conventional forms of information systems. There are several evaluation network models, but there is still a need...

Social Network Service (SNS) has secured lots of users, and its scale and social influence are getting bigger and more powerful. At the same time, however, phenomena that cause social disruption also have increased with spreading false rumors on SNS and posting abusive comments. In order to resolve these negative phenomena, the research inquires into the citizenship behavior of SNS users and ex...