mehdi mahmoodi yekta; gholamreza shabani bahar; Habib Honari; javad shahlaee; farzad ghafouri
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Objective: The aim of the present study was to identify the causes of entrepreneurial development of the country's sports science education system.Methodology: The research method was qualitative and field-based, and the data were collected using library studies as well as in-depth and semi-structured ...
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Objective: The aim of the present study was to identify the causes of entrepreneurial development of the country's sports science education system.Methodology: The research method was qualitative and field-based, and the data were collected using library studies as well as in-depth and semi-structured interviews with experts. The statistical population of the study consisted of all experts in the three fields of science, administration and sports, including experts and experts in the field of entrepreneurship (including top sports entrepreneurs, professors in this field), members of the elite faculty and experts in the faculties of physical education and sports sciences. Managers of sports organizations (Ministry of Sports and Youth, Federations and the National Olympic Committee) were formed. The method of targeted sampling was used as a snowball and interviews with experts continued until theoretical saturation was achieved (19 interviews). The research findings were analyzed through the coding process in three stages: open, central and selective.Results:The findings showed that a total of 27 factors the form in the form of 4 sub-categories (component); Communication management of the scientific and executive part of the country's sports, principled and practical planning of courses and topics, university education system and attention to internship and entrepreneurship unit and in two general categories (concept) called appropriate program and structure and educational system.Conclusion: The research findings indicated that the most important reasons for the development of entrepreneurship in the country's physical education and sports science system are having a proper program and structure and using up-to-date and efficient educational system in universities, which can have a positive effect on the efficiency of physical education graduates.
fatemeh ahmadi; mojtaba Eskandari pour; mostafa Rashidinia
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Objective: Entrepreneurship is one of the ways that can be as a stable action towards job creation. Therefore, the purpose of this research is the study of affecting factors on entrepreneurship of physical education and sport sciences students at universities in Guilan provinceMethodology: The research ...
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Objective: Entrepreneurship is one of the ways that can be as a stable action towards job creation. Therefore, the purpose of this research is the study of affecting factors on entrepreneurship of physical education and sport sciences students at universities in Guilan provinceMethodology: The research method was descriptive correlational and the statistical population included all students of physical education at universities in Guilan province. Based on the minimum sample size in PLS software, out of 220 sample individuals, 208 completed questionnaires were used for statistical analysis. The research tools included demographic questionnaire, Nikraftar’s social skills, Faraji’s social capital, Safiri and Arasteh’s economic capital, and Robbins and Koulter’s entrepreneurship. Content validity of questionnaires was verified by five professors and convergent and divergent validity and composite reliability was verified by software.Results: The results of path analysis indicated that the priorities of all three variables were social skills (t-value=8.419; path coefficient = 0.521); social capital (t-value = 3.389; path coefficient=0.188) And economic capital have a significant effect on entrepreneurial skills (t-value = 2.168; path coefficient= 0.118). Meanwhile, the general fitting index of the GOF model is 0.446 and is strong enough.Conclusion: Regarding the findings, it seems that the training of social skills and then the creation of the necessary platforms for the development of social capital by formal and nongovernmental institutions can be effective on student entrepreneurship skills.
Hashem Kozechian; Mohammad Ehsani; Sayedmortezah Azimzadeh; Asadolah Kordnaeij; Baranda Pitts
Volume 3, Issue 1 , April 2014, , Pages 51-68
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AbstractObjective: Nowadays, the new enterprises are recognized as the main sources of job creation, innovation and development in today’s business world. Therefore, identifying influencing factors that play key roles in the start-up of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) is critical.Methodology: ...
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AbstractObjective: Nowadays, the new enterprises are recognized as the main sources of job creation, innovation and development in today’s business world. Therefore, identifying influencing factors that play key roles in the start-up of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) is critical.Methodology: Thus, the purpose of this study is to analyze factors influencing Small and Medium sized sport Enterprises (SEMs) start-ups and develop a proper model. The methodology followed in this study was descriptive-correlative. The population consisted of owners of small and medium sized sport enterprises (N=1500) from which 258 persons were randomly selected. For data collection, the individual factors questionnaire including entrepreneurial character (α=.77), entrepreneurial skills (α= .75); environmental factors (α=.77); capital factors (α=.77); and the business establishment competence questionnaire (α=.81) were used. To analyze the data, the appropriate descriptive and inferential statistics as well as the structural equation modeling with Amos16 software were used.Results: The results showed that all the three individual, environmental and capital factors had a positive and significant relationship with business establishment. However, the fitted research model showed that only individual factors could play a significant role in establishing an effective sport business; while, the environmental factor also influenced its establishment indirectly through the individual factor.Conclusion: The findings of this research put emphasis on the importance of individual factors in the success of establishing small and medium-sized sports businesses.Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Influential factors, Sport businesses, Start-up.
