The Role Social Capital Components on Entrepreneurship of Parsabad SMEs

Social capital is about the value of social networks, bonding similar people and bridging between diverse people, with norms of reciprocity. It is the aggregate of the actual or potential resources which are linked to possession of a durable network of more or less institutionalized relationships of mutual acquaintance or recognition. The main focus of this article is surveying the Role Social Capital Components on Entrepreneurship in Parsabad small and medium enterprise (EMEs). Theoretical framework of this study is Carland et al's (1984) entrepreneurship model and Sandra Franke (2005) Social Capital model. Data has collected from 120 workers of SMEs in Iran‟s Parsabad Moghan city by two standard questionnaires of study variables. Both the reliability and validity of measures has examined. The Hypotheses were tested through Freedman and Regression tests.The research has shown a positive and meaningful relation between social capital with its components and entrepreneurship. .

Social capital, entrepreneurship, social capital quality, structural Components, EMEs