Effect of social capital on organizational entrepreneurship of the agriculture jihad organization in Kermanshah township

Social capital is one of the important organizational capabilities and assets that can contribute to generate new ideas and develop entrepreneurial activities in organizations and to make sustainable organizational advantage for them. The main purpose of this descriptive- correlative research was to study the effect of social capital on organizational entrepreneurship of the Agriculture Jihad Organization in Kermanshah Township. The statistical population of the study consisted of experts of the Agriculture Jihad Organization in Kermanshah Township (N=200). According to the Krejcie and Morgan table, a sample size of 132 was selected using a stratified random sampling method. In order to collect study data, two standard questionnaires including social capital scale (Nahapiet & Goshal, 1998) and organizational entrepreneurship (Scipers, Hogg and Bloom, 2008) were used that the average variance index (AVE) and Composite Reliability (CR) and Cronbach's alpha coefficient were used to determine the construct validity and reliability of questionnaires, respectively. The collected data were analyzed by structural equation standardization technique through AMOS software. Based on the findings, social capital had a positive and significant effect on organizational entrepreneurship in the Agricultural Jihad Organization of Kermanshah. Thus, cognitive, relational and structural capitals have a significant effect on organizational entrepreneurship, respectively, and explain 63 percent of the variance changes it.