mohammad reza azimi; Zeinab Mondalizadeh; Karim Zohrehvandian
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Objective: The purpose of this article was to identify barriers to launching sports startups and provide solutions.Methodology: The present study was qualitative and applied in terms of purpose. Library studies, interviews and Delphi questionnaire were used to collect data. The statistical population ...
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Objective: The purpose of this article was to identify barriers to launching sports startups and provide solutions.Methodology: The present study was qualitative and applied in terms of purpose. Library studies, interviews and Delphi questionnaire were used to collect data. The statistical population was sports management professors, specialists in science and technology parks and sports start-ups in Hamadan province. Using purposive sampling method, 30 people participated in the Delphi panel. According to the Kendall coefficient, the Delphi approach ended in the third round.Results: Findings showed that the barriers to launching sports startups can be summarized in 6 components; obstacles to starting sports startups included managerial barriers, socio-cultural barriers, lack of awareness and ignorance, legal barriers, human capital barriers and environmental barriers were mentioned. In accordance with the obstacles, management strategies, socio-cultural strategies, educational strategies, legal solutions and environmental solutions were mentioned. Conclusion: It seems that the set of managerial, cultural and social factors, barriers to human capital, structural-commercial, legal-legal barriers and environmental conditions are among the barriers to start-up in a sports startup ecosystem and in this regard, according to solutions, support of organizations and institutions for startups seems necessary.Keywords: Business Management, Sports Entrepreneurship, Start-ups, Strategies, Startup Challenges
zeynab Mondalizadeh; Karim Zohrehvandian
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify the factors influencing the position of undergraduate sports science from the perspective of entrepreneurial learning.Methodology: The research method was qualitative hermeneutic phenomenology. Participants included students and professors of sports ...
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify the factors influencing the position of undergraduate sports science from the perspective of entrepreneurial learning.Methodology: The research method was qualitative hermeneutic phenomenology. Participants included students and professors of sports science at public universities, 23 of whom were purposefully selected. Purposeful sampling was used and sampling continued until theoretical saturation. The tools used were in-depth and open interviews. Data were analyzed using an analytical coding approach. Validity was determined through longitudinal and comprehensive negligence of the data source, and the coefficient of the agreement was obtained 83% in determining the coding reliability.Results: 49 sub-themes and 8 main themes were identified from the interviews. Key themes such as: understanding entrepreneurial areas in experimental conditions, academic structure, content, and quality of some courses, inter-institutional collaboration, teachers' knowledge, and attitude, title review and course content, course teaching transfer process, and enhance practical learning process as learning factors affecting entrepreneurial learning in colleges were identified. Conclusion: The most important issue seems to be educational programs, with only theoretical approaches and headings cannot play a role in enhancing entrepreneurial learning among students, and in this regard, a comprehensive review of the programs educational and its adaptation to the needs of society can place the field of sports sciences in the direction of development and entrepreneurial dynamism.
Karim Zohrehvandian; Hashem Koozechian; Mohammad Ehsani; Mojtaba Amiri
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Objective: The The aim of this study was designing model to identify football clubs marketing capabilities in Iran Premier League. Methodology: this research is an Exploratory research with Qualitative nature that used of the grounded theory method. Statistical population was all of the football clubs ...
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Objective: The The aim of this study was designing model to identify football clubs marketing capabilities in Iran Premier League. Methodology: this research is an Exploratory research with Qualitative nature that used of the grounded theory method. Statistical population was all of the football clubs managers and sport management faculty members that selected by Theoretical and Snowball sampling. To collect data, used of Depth interviews by open-ended questions. Results: collected data from 18 interviews coded and analyzed by grounded theory method.Primary codes was 709 that after summarizing codes, they decrease128 codes and Were converted with 18 Axial Codes. This codes were classified to 4 group include football capabilities, infrastructure capabilities, strategic capabilities and operational capabilities. Research model were designed in the form of a pyramid according to relationship between these capabilities. Conclusion: The proposed model can be used as an tool for identification of football marketing capabilities and utilization of this capabilities that logical and systematic manner to marketing, and gaining income and financial independence Club and solve problems
