مجله مدیریت سرمایه اجتماعی
سال نهم شماره 2 (تابستان 1401)

As a sensitive issue, companies’ social responsibility has grabbed much attention in recent years. Since social capital is a means to achieve individual, collective, and social goals and benefits, the purpose of this study was examining the effect of business strategy on the relationship between companies’ social responsibility and value in order to increase social capital. To this end, a sample of 160 companied enlisted on Tehran Stock Exchange in the 2010-2019 period was used to test the study hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed the business strategy variable as the moderating variable affecting the relationship between a company’s social capital and value. Future studies are suggested to examine the relationship between a company’s social responsibility and value through other variables.

This article investigated the research methodologies of the articles published in the “Social Capital Management” journal. In terms of purpose, the study was an applied research project, and it used library research for data collection purposes. The statistical population of the study regarded all articles of the “Social Capital Management” journal published between 2014 and 2020. No sampling was used in the study, and all population members were taken into account in the study. All in all, 177 articles were inspected in terms of 9 parameters, namely distribution of the number of articles in each volume, data collection instrument, data analysis method, research approach, research method, research domain, the number of authors of each article, the academic field of each corresponding author, and the academic affiliation of each corresponding author. The obtained results showed that university professors and students with public management degrees have had the highest rate of publication. In terms of corresponding authors’ academic affiliation, researchers from the University of Tehran and Islamic Azad University have been the most publications in this journal. The most common topics have been social capital, religion, and Islamic teachings. Moreover, it was found that the majority of articles have been descriptive-analytical with a quantitative approach. The research method of most examined articles has been structural equation modeling. Finally, the top data collection instrument has been questionnaire.

As a key element in the sport-related domains, social capital is a completely known issue. As one of the most important community-oriented environments, the sport-recreation clubs have now turned into unique focal points for the facilitation of social capital. Accordingly, the study at hand was carried out first to extract and then to analyze the relationships of the factors facilitating social capital in sport-recreation clubs. This study was done using a sequential mixed-methods approach. In the qualitative phase, a systematic review was used to collect data, and in the quantitative phase, a questionnaire based on the multi-criteria decision making method (in fact, the expert DEAMTEL questionnaire) was used to this end. The results of the systematic review showed that the five factors of trust, friendly environment, horizontal governance, common goals, and norms are the significant patterns of social capital facilitation. Among these factors, the horizontal governance has the strongest effect, followed by friendly environment, trust, common goals, and norms. According to the cause-effect diagram, norms and horizontal governance were shown to be causal factors and friendly environment, trust, and common goals to be non-causal factors. The extracted semantic patterns can form a distinctive conceptual model/instrument for sport-recreation clubs to help them fully enjoy social capital and the benefits related to it.

Political participation is an instance of collective perspective and policymaking that cannot be fulfilled without social capital. Thus, this study set out to examine the effect of social capital on political participant through meta-analysis method. The statistical population was comprised of 28 survey-type research documents published from 2008 to 2020. The criteria for the inclusion of research documents into the meta-analysis software were having a correlation coefficient, confidence interval, and sample size along with the foregoing publication year range. The findings showed that the overall effect of social capital on political participation is 46 percent. There were found significant relationships between some social capital components and political participation, including social solidarity (.461), social participation (.391), religious bonds (.310), social awareness (.301), social bonds (.208), social trust (.123), and expert reference group (.102). In sum, the study showed that social capital can provide robust support and can be a guarantee for the fulfillment of political participation. Social capital in societies is enhanced through the social connection and solidarity of ethnicities with ethnicities, ethnicities with government, and citizens with political rulers.

The use of social media in workplace has had various effects on the employees’ attitudes and behaviors. Thus, studying the process and consequences of the social media effect is of utmost importance. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of using social media in workplace on job engagement and organizational identification of employees. To this end, the moderating role of organizational social capital was also examined. This descriptive-correlational study was applied in terms of purpose. The statistical population involved the 410 Digikala electronic business experts, out of which 200 participants were selected using simple random sampling. The required data was collected using a questionnaire and was analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling. The results of the study showed that the use of social media has positive significant effects on organizational social capital, job engagement, and organizational identification. Moreover, it was revealed that the use of social media in workplace is also effective on job engagement and organizational identification through the moderating role of organizational social capital.

The key role of human resources in the growth, development, and sustainability of organizations is obvious. Thus, the coaches of various sport federations – as the most important human resources of these federations – have a crucial role in the development and improvement of sports fields. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of social capital (as an instrument to increase the quality of life) on professional burnout in the light of the moderating role of demographic variables among coaches of various sport federations. The study adopted a descriptive-correlational research method. The statistical population was comprised of all elite coaches of the Iranian federations of swimming, taekwondo, and badminton, out of which 223 individuals were selected based on Morgan’s table and through simple random sampling method. In order to analyze the data, KMO and Spearman tests as well as structural equation modeling were run in SPSS 25 and PLS2.8.3 software packages, respectively. The results showed that although the moderating factors of gender, marital status, education, and experience do not have significant effects on professional burnout, the moderating variable of age has a negative significant effect on the relationship between social capital and professional burnout. Moreover, the model was found to have good fitness. Professional burnout afflicts huge costs on organization’s human resources and brings about financial, physical, and mental damages in organizations. Based on the study findings, it is suggested that sports federations pay attention to social capital variables to reduce the burnout in their coaches. It is noteworthy that due to the high rates of stress among the coaches, the federations addressed in this study should provide conditions for the earlier retirement of their coaches.