Investigating the impact of social capital components on innovation capability through tacit knowledge sharing

The corona virus as a pandemic and unknown disease has provided the field for various innovations. Social capital with communication between managers and employees has brought knowledge for innovation in providing services. The purpose of this article is to investigate the effect of social capital components on innovation capability through tacit knowledge sharing. The research is applied in terms of purpose and correlational in terms of descriptive implementation method. Its statistical population is managers and employees of beauty clinics and limited surgery centers in Mashhad city, and a sample of 125 people was selected by stratified random method. To measure the variables, a standard questionnaire with the components of social capital, tacit knowledge sharing, and innovation capability was used to measure content and form validity from the point of view of experts and content validity, and convergent validity was used to check construct validity. To measure the reliability of Cronbach's alpha, the reliability of the reagents and the composite, and for the modeling method, structural equations have been used. The results show that structural social capital has a positive and significant effect on tacit knowledge sharing, cognitive social capital has a positive and significant effect on tacit knowledge sharing, and communicative social capital has a significant effect on tacit knowledge sharing. The sharing of tacit knowledge has a positive and significant effect on innovation ability. Also, the results showed that cognitive social capital, structural social capital and relational social capital were not confirmed through tacit knowledge sharing about innovation ability.