Abstract—The main aim of this paper is studying the significant relationship between social capital and urban management in the city of Zanjan in Iran. Accordingly, partial objectives subordinated to the main purpose of this study are investigating the significant relationship between trust and urban management and also between collaboration and cooperation and urban management. From the perspective of the research methodology, this research is quantitative. In order to test the research hypotheses in addition to reliability and validity tests, spearman and Kendall’s tau bivariate correlation are applied with the help of SPSS and LISREL. For data gathering, simple random sampling method is used. The statistical society is Zanjan’s citizens and the sample size is 200. The results show that there is the significant relationship between social capital and urban management; there is the significant relationship between trust and urban management; there is the significant relationship between collaboration and cooperation and urban management; there is the significant relationship between trust and collaboration and cooperation.

Index Terms—collaboration and cooperation, social capital, trust, urban management

Cite: Kamran Yeganegi, Maryam Ebrahimi, and Mahshid Ebrahimi, "Survey of the Relationship between Social Capital and Urban Management (Case Study: Zanjan City in Iran)," Journal of Advanced Management Science, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 292-298, July 2016. doi: 10.12720/joams.4.4.292-298