摘要:Nowadays, in the knowledge era, organizations take advantage of a special
competitive advantage utilizing invisible assets which are considered to be the
new valuable resources. These circumstances are defined due to the importance of
knowledge creation and sharing process, which indicates the importance of the
social capitals as a new managerial phenomenon. Also, on the other hand,
inter-organizational entrepreneurship can lead to the development of new
products and services, product and services innovation, and updated
organizational units and it will ultimately brings the competitive advantage to
the organization. Therefore, the main aim of this paper is to survey the
relationship of inter-organizational entrepreneurship with social capital in an
industrial company. The descriptive research methodology is used and correlation
method is utilized and the statistical population of the survey includes 151
managers of an industrial company in which 89 numbers of them are selected as
the sample. The results indicate that there is a positive relationship between
social capital and inter-organizational entrepreneurship (and its dimensions,
namely cognitive and structural). To be clearer, with increase of social
capital, inter-organizational entrepreneurship will increase
关键词:Social capital ـ Inter, organizational entrepreneurship ـ Cognitive ـ structural dimensions of social capital