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.
Zeinab Mondalizadeh; Mohammad Ehsani; Hashem Kozechian; Habib Honari
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Objective: Sustainability in sport development or sport sustainability development is a considered concept attracting attention in today's research. Sustainability is a main theme in the sport development. The purpose of this paper is to study concepts of sport sustainability development, its barriers ...
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Objective: Sustainability in sport development or sport sustainability development is a considered concept attracting attention in today's research. Sustainability is a main theme in the sport development. The purpose of this paper is to study concepts of sport sustainability development, its barriers and offer solutions to achieve the sport sustainability development.Methodology: The research method was descriptive and the research strategy was qualitative. In this regard, we used library studies and interviews with sport management professors, sport managers, athletes and sport coaches. Participants were 14 persons. The sampling strategy was acute one and in this regard, we used content analysis of interviews.Results: The result showed that sustainable development in sport would be achieved through social participation with social, economic and institutional dimensions. The Other research findings were the classification of barriers included managerial, structural, environmental, behavioral and legal one. Sustainable development strategies argued by experts was including development of strategic plan appropriate to environmental changes, ratification of the program through law and legal bodies such as Islamic consultative assembly, fit out of sport structure with international law and removing legal vacuum in sport through lawyers. Conclusion: Therefore, the attention of managers, politicians and all institutions can provide backgrounds to development of sustainability goals in sport and to provide economic and social effects in society and institutions.
