Management Studies in Development and Evolution

The Dark(negative) Side of Social Capital and organizational cronyism: An analysis of the moderating effect of organizational transparency

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

mehdi deyhimpuor

nedaja

https://doi.org/10.22054/jmsd.2024.79362.4466
Abstract
Background and purpose: One of the new problems of organizations in the current era is the dark (negative) aspects of social capital, which causes the formation of organizational cronyism. The current research was conducted with the aim of adjusting the relationship between the dark aspects of social capital with an emphasis on the variable of organizational transparency.
Methodology: This research is based on the objective of applied type and in terms of method, descriptive-correlation. The statistical population of the research is made up of a number of employees of government organizations in Mazandaran province, and 391 people were selected as a sample using the available sampling method. The data of the research was obtained through the questionnaires of Arasli and Tamer (2008), organizational transparency (Rawlins, 2008) and social capital of Nahapit and Ghoshal (1998).
Findings: The analysis of statistical data indicates that the impact of social capital on organizational cronyism is 0.535 and organizational transparency on organizational cronyism is -760.
Conclusion: The results of structural equation modeling showed that all paths of social capital and its dimensions are significant on organizational chronicity, and the variable of organizational transparency also moderates this relationship.

Keywords

": organizational transparency
organizational cronyism
social capital
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Management Studies in Development and Evolution
Volume 33, Issue 114
Winter 2025
Pages 219-251

  • Receive Date 22 April 2024
  • Revise Date 29 September 2024
  • Accept Date 05 October 2024

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