Social Capital and Knowledge Creation: Diminishing Returns of the Number and Strength of Exchange Relationships

2004 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 735-746 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ann McFadyen ◽  
Albert A. Cannella
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Exchange Relationships ◽  
Diminishing Returns

scholarly journals A Correlation Study between Social Capital and Knowledge Management with Emphasis on the Human Capital - The Case Study: Payame Noor University of Hormozgan (Bandarabbas)

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Mansooreh Dastranj
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Correlation Study ◽  
Knowledge Transmission ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge

<p>Universities because of the importance and position they play in the every countries’ socio-economic development, require attention to personnel social capital at the university, because the social capital, makes effective knowledge management possible.</p><p>With respect to the importance of social and human capital and knowledge management, the present study was done to explore the relationship between social capital and knowledge management with emphasis on the human capital.<strong> </strong></p><p>This research is survey- descriptive of correlation type and the required data were collected through library-field. The subjects in this study consist of Payame Noor University staff of Hormozgan province.</p><p>In this study, 54 staff of Bandar Abbas Payame Noor University were selected through random sampling. After gathering the required data through knowledge management questionnaire, knowledge management processes were measured based on the five dimensions such as the capture of knowledge, acquisition of knowledge, transmission of knowledge, creation of knowledge and application of knowledge. In order to provide for the reliability of the questionaire cronbachs alpha was used. In order to check the significance of the difference between responses descriptive and inferential statistics such as regression, one way anova and t test were run using SPSS version 20. The result show that the staff means score of knowledge management was 76/66±20/48. The result shows that there was a significant relationship between social capital and knowledge management. Also there was a significant relationship between social capital and the five components of knowledge management such as capture of knowledge, acquisition of knowledge, transmission of knowledge, creation of knowledge and application of knowledge. Also there was a significant relationship between human capital and the component of knowledge management.</p>

scholarly journals Role of Nature in Creation of Iranian Myths

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Abolghasem Dadvar ◽  
Roya Rouzbahani
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Knowledge Transmission ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
The Difference

<p>Nature has always been an important element of myths and religions and had a different standing within ideologies. Because various factors have been involved in creation of myths, this research aims to clarify the role of nature in creation of Iranian myths. Generally, the structure of Iranian myth is a kind of belief in duality of nature, in human and in the conflict forces existing in the world which best are expressed in the continued conflict between good and evil forces. Iran is a country with varied natural geography and can be called the land of great conflicts, so this paper aims to investigate the role of nature in the creation of Iranian myths and determine the effective natural and mythological forces. Data gathered by the documentary method and the research was performed by a descriptive, adaptive and analysis method. According to the results, this research concludes that natural elements play a significant role in the Iranian myth.</p><p>llected through library-field. The subjects in this study consist of Payame Noor University staff of Hormozgan province.</p><p> </p><p>In this study, 54 staff of Bandar Abbas Payame Noor University were selected through random sampling. After gathering the required data through knowledge management questionnaire, knowledge management processes were measured based on the five dimensions such as the capture of knowledge, acquisition of knowledge, transmission of knowledge, creation of knowledge and application of knowledge. In order to provide for the reliability of the questionaire cronbachs alpha was used. In order to check the significance of the difference between responses descriptive and inferential statistics such as regression, one way anova and t test were run using SPSS version 20. The result show that the staff means score of knowledge management was 76/66±20/48. The result shows that there was a significant relationship between social capital and knowledge management. Also there was a significant relationship between social capital and the five components of knowledge management such as capture of knowledge, acquisition of knowledge, transmission of knowledge, creation of knowledge and application of knowledge. Also there was a significant relationship between human capital and the component of knowledge management.</p>

Early Career Developmental Networks and Professionals’ Knowledge Creation

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 1343-1371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary B. Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Developmental Networks ◽  
Developmental Network ◽  
Professional Network ◽  
Open Structures

This article examines the relationships between professionals’ early career developmental networks and their knowledge creation. An empirical study of 167 novice professionals finds that novices’ knowledge creation benefits from both closed and open structures in developmental networks, but the effects depend on whether they work with a prominent mentor. Traditional developmental networks, characterized by dense structures, relate positively to novices’ future knowledge creation, except when there is a prominent mentor in the network, suggesting that density and prominence are substitutable forms of social capital. Entrepreneurial developmental networks, where novices are positioned between disconnected mentors within the developmental network, relate negatively to future knowledge creation for all novices, including those with prominent mentors. Finally, the extent to which the developmental network reaches collaborators in the broader professional network relates positively to novices’ future knowledge creation, and this effect is strongest for those novices with prominent supervisors in the developmental network. Overall, these findings suggest important implications for understanding novices’ developmental networks and their knowledge creation.

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