Mehdi Mohebbinejad; Gholamreza Shabani bahar; Samira Aliabadi; Mozaffar Yekta Yar
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of core competencies on the innovation of sports organizations by examining the mediating role of intellectual capital.Methodology: In terms of subject, this research is in the field of correlation studies, in terms of nature, it is in ...
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of core competencies on the innovation of sports organizations by examining the mediating role of intellectual capital.Methodology: In terms of subject, this research is in the field of correlation studies, in terms of nature, it is in the field of descriptive research. The statistical population of the research included managers and experts of the Ministry of Sports and Youth, sports federations and the National Olympic Committee (N=1200). According to the minimum sample required in the Morgan table, the sample size was determined to be 291 people, which was done by simple random sampling. Four demographic information questionnaires, Qasemi et al.'s core competencies questionnaire (2013), Bontis et al.'s (2000) intellectual capital questionnaire, and Jimenez et al.'s organizational innovation questionnaire (2008) were used. To confirm the formal and content validity of the questionnaire, the opinions of 7 sports management professors were used. The reliability of the questionnaire was also confirmed by conducting a test on 30 members of the research community and calculating Cronbach's alpha coefficient. For data analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics were used in SPSS version 26 and structural equation model in Amos software version 24.Results: The results showed that there is a significant relationship between core competencies and innovation, core competencies and intellectual capital, and between intellectual capital and innovation in sports organizations in the country (Sig=0.001). Also, core competencies have a significant positive effect on innovation (Sig=0.001, t=10.561) with a path coefficient (β=0.782), intellectual capital on innovation (Sig=0.001, t=6.040) with a path coefficient (β=0.443), and core competencies have a significant positive effect on intellectual capital (Sig=0.001, t=8.573) with a path coefficient (β=0.572) in sports organizations.Conclusion: In order to promote the innovation of their organization, the managers of the country's sports organizations have a special level in hiring employees based on their competence and facilities as well as their innovation capabilities. Also, by improving the competencies of organizational employees through specialized training, job rotation, etc., they also promote their innovation.
javad fesanghari; Rasool Norouzi Seyed hossini; marjan saffari; Hashem Kozechian
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Objective: This study aimed at identification of new technologies in the development of recreational sports: what are drivers and motivations. Methodology: Data were collected through semi-structured interviews using a qualitative approach. In order to analyze the qualitative data, the themes analysis ...
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Objective: This study aimed at identification of new technologies in the development of recreational sports: what are drivers and motivations. Methodology: Data were collected through semi-structured interviews using a qualitative approach. In order to analyze the qualitative data, the themes analysis method was used (Brown and Clark, 2006). Results: The findings of this study showed that the drivers and motivations for using new technologies to develop recreational sports are put into five perspective: sports competencies, sports intelligence, innovation and knowledge efficiency in recreational sports, internationalism in recreational sports and transformation and increasing social orientation are divided into sports technologies.Conclusion: According to the results of this study, To develop recreational sports, new technologies can be used, which should be the main objective of enhancing the social trend toward technologies that are used to develop sport in the community. This will be achieved through intelligence of recreational sports and taking advantage of sports innovations.
Mehrzad Hamidi; Mohmmad Kazemi Reza; Hidar Soleimani Gatabi
Volume 2, Issue 1 , April 2013, , Pages 55-64
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AbstractObjective: The purpose of the present study was to identify innovation potentials in football refereeing. Because of the technological changes and innovations that have been created in the football industry, it seemed important and essential to do this study.Methodology: This study was an applied ...
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AbstractObjective: The purpose of the present study was to identify innovation potentials in football refereeing. Because of the technological changes and innovations that have been created in the football industry, it seemed important and essential to do this study.Methodology: This study was an applied one; quantitative in its purpose and qualitative in its method. The statistical population were national and international referees, assistant referees, and referee assessors. The method of sampling was purposive and judgmental. The statistical samples were elite football referees.Results: The results of this study indicated that elite referees, assistant referees and assessors agreed with the use of new technological innovations in the game. It demonstrated that using new technologies affected directly and indirectly on the referees’ performance, too.Conclusion: The use of these technologies will affect the referee performance directly and indirectly.Keywords: Innovation, Football industry, Technological innovation, Football refereeing.
