As a concept that is rooted in many different social sciences including sociology, education, politics, economics and management, social capital encompasses a number of dimensions. Nahapiet and Ghoshal (1998) suggest that social capital has three distinct dimensions: structural, relational and cognitive. Cognitive social capital is created through communicative language, narratives and codes wh...

Organizations have capabilities for creating and sharing knowledge (intellectual capital) that give them their distinctive advantage over other institutional arrangements, such as markets (Ghoshal & Nahapiet, 1998). But, what is the basis of a firm’s knowledge development capabilities? At least in part, the answer is that these capabilities stem from the social capital that an organization poss...

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 factors influencing knowledge sharing among the personnel of agricultural extension and education organization in the iranian ministry of jihad-e agriculture. a survey method was employed for the study, and 110 personnel randomly selected as a sample out of 140 who were busy working in the organization. data was collected through a questionn...

Considering necessity of recognizing the knowledge-based economy and achieving its foundations in Iran, the main issue of this research is to clarify the relationship between intellectual capital and Refined EVA in insurance companies which are member of Tehran Stock Exchange. In this research, the Refined EVA index was used to evaluate and measure the intellectual capital of the Palick model a...

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...

  The current study was aimed at investigating The effect of organizational culture on organizational performance with role of mediator intellectual capital of Bandar Abbas Tax Organization via descriptive-correlative analysis. The population under study was consisted of the 215 employees of Bandarabbas Tax Organization. Using simple random sampling, a number of 138 persons were selected as the...

Previous studies rarely examined the relationship between intellectual capital and competitive advantage. Most studies underestimate the shift towards knowledge based economy where, capital and work are no longer the differentiating and generating factors of sustainable competitive advantage. Relatively, little is known in the literature about how intellectual capital affects competitive advant...