مجله مدیریت سرمایه اجتماعی
سال دهم شماره 3 (پاییز 1402)

Today, organizations are faced with the emergence of new problems that, in addition to negative effects on the individual and the organization, prevent the organization from achieving its goals and providing useful services to society. In fact, social undermining, which is an emerging and common global disease in human service professions, has a great impact on the creation of behavioral entropy and subsequently social capital. Therefore, the current research was conducted to investigate the effect of social undermining on social capital with the mediating role of behavioral entropy. This research is based on a practical purpose and in terms of method, it is a descriptive survey. The statistical population of the research is the government organizations of Lorestan province, considering that the size of the statistical population is limited and specific, Cochran's sample formula was used to determine the sample size, and at the confidence level of 95%, the sample size was determined to be 384 people and by sampling in Available were selected. In the current research, standard questionnaires were used to collect information, whose validity and reliability were confirmed by the content validity method and Cronbach's alpha. Structural equation modeling method and PLS software were used to test hypotheses and analyze data. The findings of the research showed that social undermining has a negative and significant effect on the social capital of government organizations. Also, the findings show that social undermining has a positive and significant effect on behavioral entropy. Meanwhile, the mediating role of behavioral entropy between undermining and social capital was also confirmed. As a general conclusion, it should be said that in government organizations, with the occurrence of a destructive factor such as social undermining, in addition to directly and negatively affecting the social capital, the behavioral entropy of the employees of these organizations has increased, and in this way, it hurts their performance as the social capital of the organization, can be. Today, organizations face the emergence of new problems that not only have negative effects on individuals and the organization but also hinder the achievement of organizational goals and the provision of useful services to society. Social undermining, an emerging and common global issue in human service professions, significantly impacts the creation of behavioral entropy and subsequently social capital. Hence, the current research aims to investigate the effect of social undermining on social capital with the mediating role of behavioral entropy. This study is based on a practical purpose and adopts a descriptive survey method.

The purpose of this study was to design a model for the development of endowment culture in higher education centers with a mixed exploratory method. The method of this research was qualitative analysis in the qualitative part and a survey in the quantitative part. Data collection tools in the qualitative section were books, articles, and interviews, and in the quantitative section, a researcher-made questionnaire. To validate the research, three methods of validity, transferability, and verifiability were used. Also, two encoders were used during coding to increase trust. In the quantitative part, the content validity method was used to evaluate the validity of the questionnaire, and Cronbach's alpha test was used to assess the reliability of the questionnaire, which was estimated to be 0.79. To analyze and analyze the data in the qualitative part, from descriptive coding methods, interpretive coding, and comprehensive content determination, and in the quantitative part from descriptive and inferential statistical techniques such as frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation, and structural equation modeling was exploited. The results showed that the components of the endowment culture development model in higher education centers are the characteristics of endowments, management and organizational structure, educational justice, and culture building, as well as the results, confirmed the model fit from the perspective of experts.

Institutional integration is known as the seed of participatory and Social capital enhancer in metropolitan areas, which along with social trust and institutional rules can bring a fruitful product of institutional participation and good management. But the main issue is to recognize the internal and external capacities of institutions in promoting synergies. In this regard, the present study with the aim of measuring the capacity of institutional synergy in the management of Tehran metropolitan area, has investigated and analyzed the capabilities of intra-institutional and inter-institutional synergy. Due to the nature of the subject, this research is applied research that has been done with survey methods. The required data were collected using a questionnaire and analysis by T-test, one-way analysis of variance and F-test. The results show that the capacity of intra-institutional and inter-institutional synergy in the metropolitan area of Tehran is higher among public and private institutions than governmental and public institutions. Therefore, focusing on more capacities of private and public institutions in order to exploit them and reform the existing power structure in the metropolitan area of Tehran with emphasis on more capacity building in governmental and public institutions becomes more important. Development of positive institutional capacities, decentralization of power of key urban stakeholders in favor of institutions with greater capacity, design of dialogue and integrated program between institutions and institutionalization of Tehran metropolitan area can solve many of the problems of metropolitan areas due to segregation and institutional conflicts.

According to the information approach, the social capital of the CEO improves the company's resource management and economic efficiency, and increases the coordination of the company's financial policies, thereby reducing information asymmetry. Hence, the purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between the social capital of the CEO and the company's risk-taking and financial policies. The statistical population of this research is all the companies accepted in the Tehran Stock Exchange and 140 companies were selected in the period of 2015 to 2020 by systematic elimination method. Also, to test research hypotheses, a multivariate regression model based on combined data was used. The results indicate that there is a direct and significant relationship between CEO's social capital and the company's risk-taking, and it also indicates that there is a direct and significant relationship between CEO's social capital and the company's financial policies. The CEO's social capital opens the way for the circulation of information, the results of the managers' efforts in the company's financial policies are observed by the market forces, it reduces the cost of external financing, expands the participation of the stock market, and plays an important role in portfolio selection decisions.

The goal of this study was to explore virtual sports social capital and its functioning. The research followed a qualitative approach using theme analysis technique. For this, 16 university experts were purposefully selected and interviewed in-depth. The data was analyzed through stages of compiling, disassembling, reassembling, interpreting, and concluding. The results led to the identification of 124 final codes, 35 sub-themes, and 9 main themes. To ensure the coding's quality, five interviewees validated the findings, and an external observer conducted the evaluation. The main themes comprised the nature of virtual social capital, positive features, interactive features, structural features, drivers of production and reproduction, functional features, limiters of virtual social capital, challenging features, and strategies for stabilizing virtual social capital. Based on the results, it can be concluded that sports virtual social capital resembles pseudo-social capital with a flexible and fragile nature, which could have negative effects if all its aspects are not comprehended properly.

This research has been conducted with the aim of developing the model of social capital based on multiculturalism with a case study of the Ministry of Education of Tehran. In terms of the nature of the data, the research is of a qualitative type using the theme analysis method. The statistical population in the qualitative section was 14 officials and managers of the Ministry of Education and reached theoretical saturation. A semi-structured interview was used to collect data. The thematic analysis method was used to analyze the data, and the test-retest reliability method was used to confirm the reliability. Finally, the 4 main variables of social capital, context, leader, and consequence constitute the model, which has three dimensions (individual, organization, community) and social capital, context, and strategy, in two main components of internal and external organizational factors, and consequence in education factors and Culture, justice, efficiency of the organization, interactions and extra-organizational (individual) were extracted for the proposed model, and the final correlation model between the variables was extracted and explained with the opinion of experts, which is in line with the proposed theories.

Social capital has been discussed by researchers as a new topic and its relationship with other variables has been of interest to researchers. As an emerging form of economic capital, social capital leads to mutual trust and beneficial partnerships in the business environment and thereby driving economic behaviors toward collective well-being. When a company's social capital is at a high level, managers show less opportunistic behavior and strive for more cooperation and interaction in the company. The current research is a semi-experimental post-event research in terms of practical purpose and in terms of data collection method. In this study, the relationship between social capital, investment efficiency, and corporate payment policy in Tehran Stock Exchange has been investigated using 104 sample companies in the period 2017-2021. In order to investigate this issue, five hypotheses were formulated and tested using multivariate regression models. The results show that the relationship between social capital (Relationship with other companies and relationship with the government) with corporate payout policies is statistically positive and significant. Overall, we document that social capital plays an important role in influencing cash dividend payout policies. Also, social capital increases the efficiency of the company's investment.