considering the importance and necessity of efficient and capable manpower in achieving organizational goals, the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social capital and organizational citizenship behavior. this research uses descriptive– correlational questionnaire. these hypotheses are tested by a sample of 102 people in the municipality of hamedan. describing the dem...

this study was aimed at developing a method for measuring the relationship between intellectual capital and project manager competencies. intellectual capital consist human capital, structural capital and relational capital. project manager competencies have been evaluated based on ipma competence baseline (icb) and project manager competency development framework (pmcdf) includes knowledge, sk...

This study assesses whether Facebook users have different ‘connection strategies,’ a term which describes a suite of Facebook-related relational communication activities, and explores the relationship between these connection strategies and social capital. Survey data (N = 450) from a random sample of undergraduate students reveal that only social information-seeking behaviors contribute to per...

This paper integrates the concepts of person–environment (PE) fit and social capital and examines the social dynamics of organizational newcomers’ development of fit with their new environment in the light of national cultural variations. Specifically, we present a conceptual framework that illustrates how newcomers fit in with their work environment in terms of person–job (PJ) and person–organ...

BACKGROUND Recent research has shown the importance of networks in the spread of obesity. Yet, the translation of research on social networks and obesity into health promotion practice has been slow. OBJECTIVES To review the types of obesity interventions targeting social relational factors. METHODS Six databases were searched in January 2013. A Boolean search was employed with the followin...

Collaborative editing has become one of the most popular forms of knowledge contribution in virtual communities. Wikipedia— the largest online encyclopaedia— is a representative example of collaborative work. Despite the abundant researches on Wikipedia, to the best of our knowledge, no one has considered the integration of social capital and conflict. Besides, extant literatures on knowledge q...

Virtual Teams in enterprise contexts have been well researched. However when concerned with scientific research studies often focus on a macro level ignoring the individual perspective of scholars. I report in this paper on observations made in two case studies on research collaboration, one concentrated on a large research network and one on the situated context of IS scholars involved in coll...

Although social capital is a relational concept, existing studies have focused less on measuring relations. This article fills the gap by reviewing recent that used network measures grouped into three types according to measurement level. The first group defined as an individual asset and node-level explain personal benefits. second collective graph-level describe properties. third subgraph-lev...

The impact of knowledge loss on an organization is a largely unexplored area of strategic management. This article reports the fi ndings from an in-depth case study of an organization within the Australian Department of Defence, which suggest that lost human capital may produce decreased organizational output and productivity; lost social capital may reduce organizational memory; lost structura...