Sepideh Shabani; Mehrali Hemati Nejad; shahram shafiee; Rasoul Faraji; behboud Yarigholi
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Objective: In order to improve the atmosphere of football stadiums and increase the enjoyment of watching the game for the spectators, it is necessary for a wide range of organizations to interact and cooperate with each other in order to improve the etiquette of attending the stadiums. Hence, the present ...
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Objective: In order to improve the atmosphere of football stadiums and increase the enjoyment of watching the game for the spectators, it is necessary for a wide range of organizations to interact and cooperate with each other in order to improve the etiquette of attending the stadiums. Hence, the present study aims to find the organizations and institutions that play a role in promoting the culture and etiquette of attending Iranian football stadiums with the aim of improving their security was done. Methodology: The present study is applied, and its qualitative method was of conventional content analysis type. Thirteen deep Semi-structured interviews were conducted with sports management and sports Sociology experts. The interviews were continued until the reach the data Theoretical saturation. The collected data were analyzed using open and axial coding. Validity and reliability of coding were confirmed. Results: The results showed that the ministry of sport and youth, football federation, sports football clubs and police as direct brokers and Islamic consultative assembly, supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, the ministry of information and communications technology of Iran, media, religious entities, the ministry of Education, the ministry of science, research and technology, families, municipalities, the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance, non-governmental organization and celebrities as indirect brokers can be involved in cultural modeling and develop people attendance etiquette in the football stadiums.Conclusion: Interaction and strategic alliance and network communication between organizations and institutions identified in this study can reduce the level of violent and aggression of the spectators’ and others attending in stadiums through developing the culture and etiquette of attending football stadiums and preventing from occurrence security incidents.
Abbas Sobhani; reza andam; Hassan Bahrololoum; Rasoul Faraji
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The present study objective was to compile and investigate a Pattern of Iran Sport Tourism Security management with Grounded Theory approach.The study Methodology was qualitative based on grounded theory and systematic approach. The statistical population included experts, the professors and researchers, ...
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The present study objective was to compile and investigate a Pattern of Iran Sport Tourism Security management with Grounded Theory approach.The study Methodology was qualitative based on grounded theory and systematic approach. The statistical population included experts, the professors and researchers, events organizers, security providers, athletes and spectators on sports events that Purposive Sampling used based on Theoretical approach and data collection continued until theoretical saturation and 17 semi-structured interviews were conducted. In order to analyze the data, systematic method including Open, axial, and selective three-step encodings was used.Totally 146 initial code were created, Then all the same code were placed in its own category and reduced to 19 Subcategory, Eventually, 7 main categories were created based on secondary open source codes which included Promotion of Sport Tourism Security Management, human resource management, infrastructure, physical protection, Security Management Planning, event hosting conditions and individual and organizational Consequences. In the following and through axial and selective codinf the identified categories were placed in paradigm model and the relation between them were determined. This paradigmatic model includes core phenomena, casual conditions, context conditions, meddeler conditions, strategies and consequences. So Sport Tourism Security Management Model was was compiled.According to the study findings we Can say that managers and staff of sports tourism can focus on the developing of human resources management, security management plan compilation, physical protection, infrastructures and improving hosting candidations for events to Increase sports spectators mental security and better holding of sports events.
ziba Moqaddasi; Mahboub Sheikhalizadeh; Rasoul Faraji
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of privatization and advertising on sports clubs revenue in Ardabil province. Methodology: The research method is descriptive- correlation based on partial least squares structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the ...
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of privatization and advertising on sports clubs revenue in Ardabil province. Methodology: The research method is descriptive- correlation based on partial least squares structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the research is all experts, managers, and supervisors of sports clubs in Ardabil province (N=90). 72 experts, managers and supervisors of sports clubs filled out the researcher-made questionnaires of privatization, advertising for sports clubs and the amount of club revenue during one year. Structural equation modeling based on the partial least squares in software Smart PLS was used to analyze collected data. Results: The results showed that the privatization have a direct and significant effect on the sports clubs revenue (β=0.634, t=13.481). The advertising has a direct and significant effect on the sports clubs revenue (β=0.286, t=6.675) as well. The study of the goodness of fit model showed that the proposed model has a strong fit (GOF = 0.847). Conclusion: It can concluded that sports clubs through privatization move toward change in management, structure, manpower, increase and development services, cost management and improving efficiency and productivity and through advertising by changing barriers to entering the market to create a monopoly or promotes competition and as a result, they will increase their customers.
mahdi bashiri; Rasoul Faraji; farideh alabaf yousefi
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Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluation of factors affecting on acceptance of products endorsing athletes from customers' perspective. Methodology: This is an applied descriptive study. The population of the study included all the sports store customers in Tabriz city. In this study a total ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluation of factors affecting on acceptance of products endorsing athletes from customers' perspective. Methodology: This is an applied descriptive study. The population of the study included all the sports store customers in Tabriz city. In this study a total of 350 questionnaires were distributed and finally 334 questionnaires were collected. For data collection athlete endorser effectiveness scale was applied. The face validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by 15 professors of sport management. The internal consistency of the questionnaire was determined with Cronbach's alpha coefficient (0.92). The hypotheses were examined by the structural equation modeling method using Smart PLS 3.00 software. Results: The results indicated that respectively athlete expertise, athlete trustworthiness, athlete attractiveness, athlete likability, athlete similarity and athlete familiarity has a significant and positive impact in accepting the famous athletes in advertising from the customers' perspective. Moreover, results indicated that 93% of criterion variables (acceptance athlete) were explained by the Predictor variables. Conclusion: Therefore, it is concluded that the familiarity of the athletes, athletes' attractiveness, athletes' expertise, athletes' similarity, lovable character and reliability of the athletes should be taken into account by the sports marketing companies in selecting athletes as endorsers.
Meysam Nouri Khanyourdi; Mehdi Bashiri; Rasool Faraji
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Objective: The aim of this study was to identify and analyze the obstacles in communications and information technology development in Sports & Youth office of East Azarbaijan province. Methodology: The present study was done with descriptive-survey method. In order to prioritize the obstacles in ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to identify and analyze the obstacles in communications and information technology development in Sports & Youth office of East Azarbaijan province. Methodology: The present study was done with descriptive-survey method. In order to prioritize the obstacles in information and communications technology development in the organization, the questioners of the researchers was designed and completed by 66 employee of Sports & Youth office of East Azarbaijan province. The data were analyzed by ANP, in significance level of 0.05 with using of SPSS 22 software and Super Decisions. Results: According to the findings, it was determined that inner and outer context were of the most important factors in information and communications technology development in Sports & Youth office of East Azarbaijan Province compared to the others; and ANP method determined that the outer context with the final weight of (0.517661) is in priority and intent with the final weight of (0.037778) was at the end of priority. Conclusion: Due to the importance of outer context factor in obstacles of information technology development in sport organizations, it can be stated that the managers of sports organizations should design a suitable plan in order to eliminate the obstacles.
MehrAli Hemmatinezhad; Mohammad Hasan Gholizadeh; Tracy Taylor; Rasoul Faraji
Volume 4, Issue 2 , June 2015, , Pages 1-14
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Objective: In this study, the role of the planning and management of the football games on security of the stadiums has been investigated. Methodology: Twelve semi-structured interviews with experts (one football expert, two stadium managers, five police officers, and four university professors) were ...
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Objective: In this study, the role of the planning and management of the football games on security of the stadiums has been investigated. Methodology: Twelve semi-structured interviews with experts (one football expert, two stadium managers, five police officers, and four university professors) were conducted to provide data on the main factors affecting the security of Iranian football stadiums. A 28-item questionnaire related to the impact of planning and managing football games’ on the security of the stadiums was designed and 144 key participants (including police officers, soccer experts and organizers, and stadium managers) answered them. The obtained data was analyzed using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) with a varimax rotation in order to identify factors, followed by a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) which was conducted to test the impact of the identified factors and items on the stadium security. Results: The results showed that game planning and management is one of the main factors affecting the security of the stadiums. In addition, risk and crisis management, communication management, match day service quality and finally cultural activities, respectively with 0.85, 0.83, 0.84 and 0.86 factor loading, as four sub-factors for game planning and management, affect the security of the stadiums (P<0.05). Conclusion: Football games organizers’ proper planning and also stadiums managers’ good management will improve the security of the football stadiums by enhancement of spectators’ satisfaction and prevention of violent behaviors.
Mohammadrahim Ramezanian; Rasool Faraji; Farhad Khoshnevis; kazem Danesh Sani
Volume 2, Issue 1 , April 2013, , Pages 65-83
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AbstractObjective: The purpose of the present study was to investigate service quality in sports’ facilities of Guilan University by using the SERVQUAL model.Methods: This study was descriptive and all the students of Guilan university were the statistical population. Two hundred eighty five students ...
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AbstractObjective: The purpose of the present study was to investigate service quality in sports’ facilities of Guilan University by using the SERVQUAL model.Methods: This study was descriptive and all the students of Guilan university were the statistical population. Two hundred eighty five students (150 male and 135 female) were selected as statistical sample and responded to the SERVQUAL questionnaire (Parasuraman et al, 1985). This questionnaire consists of 22 pairs of questions on a seven-point Likert-type rating scale (of 1: strongly disagree to 7: strongly agree) that can measure five dimensions of the service quality (Tangibles, Reliability, Responsiveness, Assurance and Empathy) in perceptions and exceptions sections. This instrument is a general questionnaire for measuring service quality and have been modified to use in the sports sector by France et al (2010). In this study the validity of the questionnaire was verified by the experts and the reliability was also calculated in a pilot study (α=0.899 and α=0.976 respectively for the perceptions an exceptions questionnaire). Wilcoxon and Fridman, independent t-test and repeated measures tests were used to analyze collected data.Results: The results indicated that there was a negative significant gap between the five dimensions of service quality in sport facilities (p
