Promoting Entrepreneurship by Using Social Capital Accumulation and Knowledge Management

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the relationship between social capital and knowledge management with the entrepreneurial process in the city of Yazd Social Security Organization and valleys have been done. This article is a descriptive research with survey method and the correlation is done. The population of all the staff who run social security agencies to do Yazd and Bafgh of whom 151 were selected using stratified random sampling. The standard questionnaire to collect data and five-point Likert scale was used. Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to assess the reliability of the questionnaire. Analyzing data, descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS software and structural equation modeling analysis was performed using Lisrel software. The results show that social capital can influence knowledge management and entrepreneurial orientation. The three dimensions of social capital structure, cognitive, and relational directly on knowledge management and entrepreneurial orientation and indirectly affects only the relational dimension of social capital affects social interaction on knowledge management. There is a significant relationship between knowledge management and entrepreneurial orientation. And the results showed that the diversity of knowledge and application of new knowledge at the time of the introduction of new services is an important source of entrepreneurial tendencies