مجله مدیریت سرمایه اجتماعی
سال هشتم شماره 4 (زمستان 1400)

The banking system is undoubtedly one of the most essential parts of economy. The financial healthfulness of the banking system is of utmost importance for the maintenance of the stability of economic system, financial system, the depositors’ interests, and the public trust. The selection and determination of the bank healthfulness assessment indices form one of the key stages of this process. The purpose of this study was to provide a financial system health model to prevent embezzlement and improve the public trust in the Iranian banks. In order to extract the main factors of this model, semi-structured interviews were used, where deep interviews with 16 experts of the finical and monetary domain were run. The participants of the study were the experts of monetary and banking domain who were selected through theoretical purposive sampling. Using Corbin and Strauss grounded theory, 16 categories and 35 concepts were extracted during the open coding stage. Next, in the axial coding stage, the paradigmatic model was provided based on the axial category, causal conditions, strategy, context, intervening factors, and consequences. Then, in the selective coding stage, the theoretical model derived from the research findings was introduced and explained. It was found solving the problems of the financial system had an important role in solving economic problems. One of the important issues related to every financial system is the provision of accurate and transparent information about its financial activities. The results showed that transparentizing the financial procedures improves organizational resources management, increases efficiency, and augments public trust.

In recent years, there have been numerous discussions about the renovation of managerial procedures in public organizations. The selection of new frameworks for the public sector management in accordance with the cultures and Constitutions of different countries such that the developmental policies and measures are facilitated is an inevitable necessity for the developing countries. The successfulness of such frameworks in practice will be possible through the attraction of citizens’ support, which is deeply influenced by the attention of policymaker to social capital and its dimensions. The Iranian Civil Service Management Law is one of the outcomes of such a viewpoint. In this study, the status of social capital in the discourses that run through this law was examined. To this end, the text of the law was analyzed through a qualitative-interpretive approach using discourse analysis method. In this study, 128 articles and 106 notes in 15 chapters were examined. The results revealed the presence of two discourses, namely morality-law and proper service provision in most of the chapters. The examination of the various chapters of the law text led us to conclude that the mental model amplifying social capital is evident in chapters 1, 2, and 3. This trend begins to weaken in chapters 4 and 5, and hits its lowest point in the important chapters 6, 7, and 8 that are about entry into organization, employment, and promotion. Accordingly, it is suggested that content, structural, and behavioral revisions be made in the majority of chapters to facilitate the application and enforcement of this law by inducing justice, trust, transparency, and cooperation.

One of the reasons for the failure of public policies is bureaucrats’ alienation from public policies. Alienation from policy is a psychological state that leads to the psychological dissociation of public policy enforcers from those policies. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of social capital in bureaucrats’ alienation from tax policies. The statistical population of the study was comprised of identification officers of the Qom Province Tax Affairs Administration. The required data was collected through a questionnaire distributed in 2020 among a sample (n=174) which was selected using simple random sampling. The hypotheses testing results were analyzed based on maximum likelihood test in structural equation modeling. The findings showed that social capital dimensions (namely structural, communicative, and cognitive) have a positive, significant relationship with bureaucrats’ alienation from tax policies. This means that the fulfilment of each of the three dimensions of social capital causes bureaucrats to feel less alienation from policies.

The purpose of this study was to present a meta-analysis of the studies on the antecedents and consequences of social capital in sports. This study relied on the meta-analysis method to systematically summarize the previous related studies, extract and count their themes, and bring together their findings. The statistical population of the study included articles published in scientific-promotional-research Iranian journals on social capital. The research method was quantitative meta-analysis. From among the valid studies, 34 documents were selected as the sample based on their quality, validity, and meta-analytical criteria. The selected papers were analyzed using MED CLAC software. The research instrument was meta-analysis checklist, while Cohen’s d was used to attain the overall relationship value, Cochran (Q) and heterogeneity statistics were used to determine the homogeneity and the degree of homogeneity, and Egger test was applied to determine the publication bias. According to the obtained findings, 24 antecedents and 20 consequences related to social capital in sports were identified. The diversity of independent and dependent constructs indicates that social capital is a popular and important social capital in sport studies. Therefore, attention to sport policymakers, officials, and managers seems to be necessary for the creation, maintenance, and improvement of this issue as a strategic capability.

The purpose of the present article was to provide a social capital model through a novel institutional approach to improve the performance of Afghanistan Logistics system. This applied study adopted an exploratory mixed-methods approach. In the qualitative phase, the data was collected through interviews with National Logistics Organization officials and Afghanistan university professors, and it was analyzed using thematic analysis to provide the conceptual model of the study. In the quantitative phase, the qualitative phase findings were used to design a questionnaire. After ensuring the validity and reliability of the questionnaire, it was used to collect the quantitative data. The statistical population of the quantitative phase was comprised of Afghanistan National Logistics Organization officials, out of which 302 people were selected for survey according to Krejcie and Morgan table. The analysis of the quantitative data was done through structural equation modeling and PLS software. According to the results, the comprehensive social capital model through the new institutional approach in Afghanistan logistics system entails 2 themes, 6 categories, and 28 concepts.

The measurement and calculation of the share of social capital in economic growth is of great importance. The study at hand used Owen’s value approach to calculate the share of social capital in Iran’s economic growth during the years 2002-2019. This study was applied in terms of purpose and experimental in terms of method. The obtained results showed that on average, the share of physical capital, human capital, work force, and social capital in the log of GDP was 30.78, 28.84, 21.47, and 18.76 percent, respectively. Thus, it was found that compared to other variables, social capital has the smallest share in Iran’s economic growth. The examination of the social capital factors indicated that on average, the share of good governance, social participation, and trust in log of GDP was 6.15, 10.37, and 2.39 percent, respectively. Therefore, it was found that among social capital indices, the largest and smallest shares in log of GDP belonged to social participants and trust, respectively. Moreover, it was revealed that the insignificant role of social capital in Iran’s economic growth derives from various reasons, including the weakness of informal institutions, inability to fight against corruption, weak rules and regulations, high levels of distrust, lack of confidence, and lack of cooperation and teamwork spirit.