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The Relationship between Social Capital and Inter-organizational Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management Journal
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The Relationship between Social Capital and Inter-organizational Entrepreneurship
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Chegini, Mehrdad Goudarzvand; Associate Professor of Management Faculty, Islamic Azad University Rasht branch,
Zamani, Aida; M.A. Graduate of Student Management (Human Resources attitude), Islamic Azad University Rasht branch |
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social capital, structural & cognitive aspect, inter-organizational entrepreneurship, Rasht Industrial City
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In the changing and developing world today those societies and organizations are considered prosper which establish a meaningful relationship between their rare resources and management capabilities and human resource entrepreneurship (as the social capital or invest). In other words, a society or organization can have a forwarding and rapid move toward development that equips its human resources with generative entrepreneurship skill. On the other hand our country faces a great deal of economic problems such as high inflation and unemployment rates, and needs brave, creative, innovative and risk-taking entrepreneurs to try to create new plans along with their society and organization's development to get rid of these problems in public and private sectors. The present research, also, tries to identify and specify the relationship between social capital and inter-organizational entrepreneurship in private companies of Rasht Industrial City. Thus, social capital is divided into 3 categories: communicative aspect, cognitive aspect and structural aspect. This paper uses analytical – descriptive method and it is of applied type considering the objective. After calculating the abundances, statistical tests concerning hypotheses were accomplished using deductive analysis methods and correlation coefficient was applied to evaluate the relationship between these three aspects and the effect of social capital (as the independent variable) on inter-organizational entrepreneurship (as the dependent variable). Linear Regression Equation is also used to predict the effect of each component and to assess the entrepreneurship of companies in Rasht Industrial City. The population of the present research includes all active industries in Rasht Industrial City. According to available data from Guilan's Industrial Cities database about 150 industrial unites are active in Rasht of which 76 units are introduced as entrepreneurs. Questionnaires are used for all 76 units. Finally, analyzing all questionnaires the researcher concludes that communicative, structural and cognitive aspects have the highest impact on (and the highest relationship with) inter-organizational entrepreneurship in Rasht Industrial City, respectively. Accordingly, results are presented in the form of a total pattern to be able to show the effectiveness and efficiency of this pattern practically. Finally, some executive suggestions and topics for future plans are presented.
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Academy of Business & Scientific Research
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2014-02-01
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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http://absronline.org/journals/index.php/eimj/article/view/144
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management Journal; Vol 2, No 1 (2014): February; pp. 65-75
2311-1836 2310-00079 |
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eng
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http://absronline.org/journals/index.php/eimj/article/view/144/165
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Copyright (c) 2014 Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management Journal
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