Meta-Analysis to Explain The Relationship between Social Networks and Organizational Entrepreneurship: Researches in the Period of 2011-2021

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Akbar Zolfaghari 1
Narges Ghanei Yakhdan 2
Akram Safavimoghadam 3
1 Assistant Professor of Political Science-Development, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran
2 Department of Education and Human Resources Improvement, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran
3 Department of Management, Faculty of Management, Economics and Accounting, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran
10.22034/jmek.2026.427563.1113
Abstract
Purpose: Social media and social capital social networks promote and develop entrepreneurship by increasing economic growth, improving productivity, and developing new technology, products and services. The main purpose of the research is to explain the relationship between social networks and organizational entrepreneurship: researches in the period of 2011-2021.

Method: The research method is quantitative meta-analysis (cma3). The data collection tool is a reverse questionnaire. Twenty-six survey (scientific-research) studies make up the statistical population of the research that 14 cases of research with respect to validity, validity and quality of research; Correlation coefficient, sample size and significance level of each research were selected. Sampling method; targeted; and the unit of analysis was research articles.

Findings: The research findings show that the effect size of social networks on organizational entrepreneurship was 0.714; that, in Cohen's interpretive system, this amount is evaluated in the medium to high range; and it shows that there is a relatively high relationship between the two research variables.

Result: According to the results of the research, the development of new technologies has led to the role of social capital in social networks, and has turned them into a place to store ideas and ideas, and share information, and interest small and medium businesses by the social networks day by day.

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Management, Economics and Entrepreneurship Studies
Volume 6, Issue 4
Winter 2026

  • Receive Date 28 November 2023
  • Accept Date 15 February 2026