Reza Heydar; Mohammad Keshtidar; Omar Alizaie
Abstract
Objective: The purpose of the present study was to identify and classify the factors affecting the financial distress of Iranian professional football clubs based on interpretive structural modeling (ISM).Methodology: This research is a qualitative research with descriptive-analytical nature and it is ...
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Objective: The purpose of the present study was to identify and classify the factors affecting the financial distress of Iranian professional football clubs based on interpretive structural modeling (ISM).Methodology: This research is a qualitative research with descriptive-analytical nature and it is an applied research which was done through interpretive structural method. Data collection tools were library studies, interviews and questionnaires. The statistical population of the study consisted of all sport managers, professors and academic experts familiar with soccer, football players and pioneers of the country, 65 of whom were selected by purposeful and snowball method in each section of the study. Interpretive structural method (ISM) was also used for data analysis.Results: 69 factors affecting the outflow of financial distress from Iranian football clubs were identified. They were classified into 7 dimensions: management, infrastructure, human capital, marketing and advertising, technology and technology, legal and communication factors and 4 levels. Management was identified as the fourth level of the model, the most basic and underlying model.Conclusions: Finally, according to the results of the research, stabilizing club management, outsourcing the club to the private sector, employing managers and marketing experts, organized communication with internal and external scientific and research centers, interaction with managers and specialists in successful European clubs and Getting to know the legal issues of the club is recommended to get rid of financial distress.
