Weighting the criteria of social capital as an entrepreneurship success factor by using analytic hierarchy process (ahp) and a scale proposal

The aim of this study is to discover the criteria that represent social capital which can be acknowledged as a success factor of entrepreneurship in the Turkish context and to identify their relative importance level. Besides relevant literature, opinions of an expert group were received for identifying the criteria. Analytic Hierarchy Process Method was used for identifying the priorities of these criteria. Findings show that the relationship with "public institutions and authorities" is considered as the most important main dimension and the relationship with "other individual-institution-association and non-governmental organizations" has relatively lesser importance than "top managers at other firms".