Investigating the Causal Relationship between Social Capital with Organizational Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship with Emphasis on the Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment of Urmia University Faculty Members

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the causal relationship between social capital with organizational entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship with emphasis on the mediating role of psychological empowerment of faculty members of Urmia University. The statistical population of the study consists of all faculty members of Urmia University in the academic year 2014-2015, which is 582 people. Using stratified random sampling method, 200 individuals are selected as the sample of the studyusing Krejcie and Morgan table. The research method is descriptive-correlational based on structural equation modeling. The researcher made social capital questionnaire, Abbas Arab Social Entrepreneurship Questionnaire (1390), Margaret Hill Organizational Entrepreneurship Questionnaire (2003), and Spritzer & Mishra Psychological Empowerment Questionnaire(1995) are used for data collection. Data are analyzed using LISREL 8.8 and Spss22 statistical software. In descriptive statistics section, data are analyzed using indices such as mean and standard deviation and Pearson correlation coefficientto show the data status. In the inferential statistics section of the study, structural equation modeling is used to investigate the relationships between variables. The results of data analysis show that social capital has a positive and significant direct effect on social entrepreneurship, organizational entrepreneurship and psychological empowerment. The results also show the indirect effect of social capital on social entrepreneurship and organizational entrepreneurship of faculty members of Urmia University with the mediating role of psychological empowerment.