sara keshkar
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify the barriers and opportunities for the use of renewable energy sources in the Iranian football stadiums.Methodology: The present study was conducted using a qualitative method. Thematic analysis technique was used for qualitative data analysis.The ...
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify the barriers and opportunities for the use of renewable energy sources in the Iranian football stadiums.Methodology: The present study was conducted using a qualitative method. Thematic analysis technique was used for qualitative data analysis.The participants of the study included experts in the field of sustainable development, managers and technical engineers of the stadiums where the Iranian Football Premier League was held in the years 1398 to 1399 Iran. The participants were selected by purposive sampling method following with snowball method until theoretical saturation was reached (N = 12).Results: The analysis of the interviews resulted to 31 open codes and three main themes in the barriers section, and 9 open codes and two main themes in the opportunities section. The main themes obtained in the barriers section include managerial barriers, political and economic barriers, and development barriers and in the opportunities section include geographical and cultural barriers, marketing and human resources.Conclusion: The results of the present study can be used in the construction of green stadiums based on sustainable development in Iran. Also, considering the identified opportunities in the field of exploitation of renewable energy sources in the country and according to the requirements of FIFA and the National Olympic Committee for the construction of green sports venues and stadiums, sports officials should take positive steps in this field.
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.
alireza elahi; farhad fathi
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Objective: The fans such as athletes are main customer’s sports that their motivation’s to presence in sports Competition is very important. Thus, determining the motivation’s to presence of Iranian spectators in Volleyball World League and its relationship with background, amount and ...
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Objective: The fans such as athletes are main customer’s sports that their motivation’s to presence in sports Competition is very important. Thus, determining the motivation’s to presence of Iranian spectators in Volleyball World League and its relationship with background, amount and renewed presence was purpose of the present study.Methodology: The research was descriptive survey. The populations were the all spectators of the Iranian national team in the game against Italy in the World Volleyball League qualifiers series (2014) were present. According to the table krejcie and Morgan were assigned 372 people of spectator’s component sample. The data’s collection tools were questionnaire motivation’s to presence (Elahi, 1391) and renewed presence (Lim, 2006) which their validity was confirmed 8 persons of sports management experts. The reliability coefficient with Cronbach's alpha was confirmed respectively 0.87 and 0.70. Binomial test, Pearson correlation, simple and multiple regressions was used to analyze the data.Results: The results showed the presence of motivations have a significant relationship only with variable willingness to renewed present and motivation's components have predictive capability willingness to renewed present (30 percent).Conclusion: According to the results of study whatever managers focus on motivation's factors spectators and it will strengthen them can be expected to increasing context and willingness to renewed spectators.
Mohammad Ehsani; Hashem Kuzechian; Mohammad Khabiri; Mehdi Azadan
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Objective: Crowd management has been a necessary and integral part of the management of any event due to diverse and large amount of attendees. Mismanagement of crowd might cause irreparable losses. The goal of this study was to explore the challenges of crowd management in Iran’s Premiere ...
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Objective: Crowd management has been a necessary and integral part of the management of any event due to diverse and large amount of attendees. Mismanagement of crowd might cause irreparable losses. The goal of this study was to explore the challenges of crowd management in Iran’s Premiere Football League in order to have an effective plan in this case. Methodology: The research was conducted using qualitative method with exploratory nature. Data were collected using 23 deep interviews with selective sampling and snowball technique. We employed thematic analysis to code and analyze data. Results: Results showed the existence of challenges in 57 concepts. These concepts were changed to 14 secondary concepts in second phase of coding. Finally we had 5 main category or theme in third phase of coding including structure, behavior, policy making, socio-cultural and identity of crowd management. Conclusion: Awareness of those holding football matches in Iran from challenges presented in this paper could make them to try and plan for better management of challenges. This finally will lead to an increase in satisfaction of attendees and their decision to return, increase in safety and security standards and finally social and economic benefits.To design an effective crowd management model in Premiere League, a serious and careful consideration of these results originating from deep viewpoints of experts is proposed.
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.
Mehdi Emadi; Mahtab Nasseh
Volume 3, Issue 2 , January 2015, , Pages 63-75
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Abstract Objective: Attention to spectators and their satisfaction has numerous benefits for sports clubs around the world. The current research aims to analyze affecting factors on fans' satisfaction and attendance in Iran football Premier League's stadium. Methodology: The research method was survey ...
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Abstract Objective: Attention to spectators and their satisfaction has numerous benefits for sports clubs around the world. The current research aims to analyze affecting factors on fans' satisfaction and attendance in Iran football Premier League's stadium. Methodology: The research method was survey based. The statistical society of this study were all of the fans in Iran football Premier League. 1920 fans were selected by Random selection as Research sample. In the present research, the research questionnaire developed by Theodorakis and et al (2013) was used. Its validity and reliability were assessed by using conventional methods. For the analysis Path Analysis by SPSS and AMOS Software were used. Results: The results of path Analysis also showed that questionnaire with 0/313 total impact had the greatest impact on the satisfaction among fans. Also, results showed that Satisfaction with 0/462 total impact had the impact on the fans' participation in stadiums. Conclusion: According to the results of research, improving the match quality and team performance in the Iran football Premier League can increase the number of fans at Iran's stadiums. Keywords: Spectator's Satisfaction, Spectator's Attendance, Iran Football Premier League's, Stadium
