Understanding online community members’ intention to create user-generated content (UGC) can help in determining how to better manage online communities. Drawing on social capital theory and adopting the management perspective, this study investigated how online community members’ social capital dimensions (structural, relational, and cognitive) and community support dynamically influence their...

Advancements in communication technologies continue to support the development of geographically-distributed teams. Yet as this practice grows, managers and staff remain concerned about the impact of working physically away from each other. This study theorizes social capital as the primary mechanism by which the level of distribution of individuals in teams and the use of communication technol...

T understand the impact of social capital on knowledge integration and performance within digitally enabled teams, we studied 46 teams who had a history and a future working together. All three dimensions of their social capital (structural, relational, and cognitive) were measured prior to the team performing two tasks in a controlled setting, one face-to-face and the other through a lean digi...

importance of human resources and its unique role as a strategic resource, designer and systems executive and organizational systems has found higher position than in the past as far as the advanced enterprise thinking considers human being as the most important resource and asset for an organization. today, new approaches to human resource management emphasizes that should human resource with ...

Objective: Decrease  in the staff Productivity in some of the enterprises is one of the  problems  that the managers have to encounter. The purpose of this study was to the study of  investigating the relationship between social capital and intellectual capital with staff productivity in Kerman University of Medical Sciences. Methods: A descrip...

T introduce new products, firms often use knowledge from other organizations. Drawing on social capital theory and the relational view of the firm, we argue that geographically localized social capital affects a firm’s ability to innovate through various external channels. Combining data on social capital at the regional level, with a large-scale data set of the innovative activities of a repre...

Objective: Decrease  in the staff Productivity in some of the enterprises is one of the  problems  that the managers have to encounter. The purpose of this study was to the study of  investigating the relationship between social capital and intellectual capital with staff productivity in Kerman University of Medical Sciences. Methods: A descrip...

Resources are crucial for the technological and economic development of firms in spatial perspective. In this paper, we contrast two ways of conceptualizing resources and argue that a conventional, substantive understanding implies a number of shortcomings which can be overcome through the application of a relational conception of resources. In examining four types of resources, i.e. material r...

Does the socioeconomic status (SES) that one's (ego's) network members (alters) occupy indicate social resources or social comparison standards in the dynamics of health across culture? Using nationally representative data simultaneously collected from the United States and urban China, this study examines two competing theories-social capital and comparative reference group-in the two societie...