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...

The rapid growth of online social network sites (SNSs) has raised the research question of why people continue sticking to these sites. This study proposes a social network site stick model based on social response theory to answer this question. This study hypothesizes that group-level social capital (e.g., environmental prompt cues or social cues) positively influences arousal. Group-level so...

Social networking sites (SNSs) are important tools for college students to maintain and develop social capital. Yet, few studies on the social implications of using SNSs have focused on international students and their use of different social media platforms for social capital. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the implications of using host country and home country SNSs for social ...

Social network surveys are an important tool for empirical research in a variety of fields, including the study of social capital and the evaluation of educational and social policy. A growing body of methodological research sheds light on the validity and reliability of uni-dimensional social network survey data, but much less attention has been paid to the measurement of multi-dimensional net...

Offline social capital in the form of interpersonal networks is known to be associated with subjective well-being (SWB). In two studies run in the US (N 1⁄4 153) and Germany (N 1⁄4 187), we initially investigated whether the size of an individual's Facebook social network was associated with SWB and perceived social support. Objectively measured Facebook network size was positively associated w...

social capital is the one the most multidiscipline concept that have special effects to facility human relations in the society. these effects showing themselves as consequences in thought of social sciences scientist and philosopher in various arena. according to theories considered different consequences for social capital that we examine some of them in this study. the method was survey. we ...

with organizations entering knowledge-based economy, knowledge and as a result intangible assets is considered as one of the most important competitive advantages in organizations. nowadays using intangible assets has a very significant influence on organizations’ success and survival social and intellectual capitals are among the most important intangible assets. social capital enjoys being au...

A standard optimal investment model can be used to analyse an individual’s decision to accumulate social capital. We analyse six facts that support the predictions of this individualbased approach: (1) social capital first rises and then falls with age, (2) social capital declines with expected mobility, (3) social capital rises in occupations with greater returns to social skills, (4) social c...