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Shahab Bahrami, Shirin Zardoshtian, Rasool Norouzi Seyyed Hosseini,
Volume 1, Issue 2 (12-2011)
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The aim of this study is to determine the effect of perceived coach leadership behavior on motivational climate and athlete satisfaction of women taking part in basketball super league of Iran. Statistical population of this study was included from all super leagues’ female basketball players. Sample society was equal to all 174 athletes of statistical society and the method of research was descriptive. The personal information questionnaire (demography), leadership sport scale (LSS), motivational climate questionnaire (PMCSQ), and athlete satisfaction questionnaire (ASQ) were used to measure the variables. The results showed that among coaches’ leadership behavior autocratic behavior (ß=0/76) and performance climate social support (ß= 0/24) and education and training behavior and mastery climate have linear relationship and even predict it. Coaches’ leadership behavior and athlete satisfaction have significant linear relationship (p<0/01), also education and training behavior (ß=0/93) and positive feedback (ß=0/75) have linear relationship with athlete satisfaction and even predict it.
As a whole, it is obvious that coaches’ leadership behavior is an important factor in motivational climate and athlete satisfaction so the coaches by using the appropriate leadership behavior can effect on motivational climate and athlete satisfaction to achieve success and desirable outcomes.
Zeynab Mondalizadeh, Habib Honari, Javad Shahlaee,
Volume 2, Issue 3 (8-2012)
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The purpose of this study is survey of existing and desirable status in Iran’s entrepreneurial in sport from the view point of sport experts. This study is descriptive_ analytic one and was conducted as a survey and statistical sample consisted of 64 subjects including: physical education organization top managers and sport management professors. Data collected by interviews and research designed questionnaire. Its reliability (&alpha=.96) is obtained after its validity confirmation (by professors). Information was collected by Kolmogorov- smirnov, Chi square, Friedman and dependent T tests. Research findings showed that there is a significant difference between existing and desirable statues entrepreneurship strengths in sport (t=11.469, p&le.001), weaknesses (t=-11.554, p&le.001), opportunities (t=-14.073, p&le.001) and threats (t=-11.231, p&le.001).SWOT analysis showed that entrepreneurial place in sport of Iran was placed in peaceful position. In conclusion, it can be said that WT strategies should be applied with attention to the existing status of entrepreneurship in the field of entrepreneurship in sport.
Maryam Abdolshai, Ahmad Farokhi, Ali Akbar Jaberi Moghadan, Seyed Mohammad Kazem Vaez Mosavi, Anooshiravan Kazemnejad,
Volume 3, Issue 5 (4-2013)
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Recent evidence suggest that massive amount of practice of a skill results in the development of a specific memory representation that is distinguished by its enhanced performance capability relative to the other members of the same class that is uniqe and termed 'Especial Skill'. This study aimed to investigate the emergence of special skill and reevaluation the visual-context hypothesis using badminton players in three skill levels (expert, skilled, less-experienced). Subjects (10 players in each group, mean age=23.12 ±3.85 years) performered 100 backhand short serves at five distances (1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5 meters from net) in each of environmental conditions (normal and covered court). The regression analyze showed that accuracy in skilled group at 2 meters distance was significantly better than predicted by regression equation, supporting the especial Skill effect, but it wasn’t showed in two other groups. This specific advantage of practice at this point was not emerged at absence of visual cues that supported the visual-context hypothesis.
Homayoon Abbasi, Seyed Nasrollah Sajjadi, Anooshiravan Kazemnejad,
Volume 3, Issue 5 (4-2013)
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Today, the organizational culture variable is the main focus of analysis in many organizational studies. In the last years, this construct, has found special status in the field of sport management researches. This study aims to validate and investigate the psychometric properties of organizational culture assessment instrument (OCAI) based on the competing values framework model (CVF) in Iranian sport organizations (federations). The methodology of the present research is based on a correlation study (A factor analysis type of covariant matrix or correlation through principle components analysis method). The statistical population includes 52 sport federations (703 sport experts). In confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) method, the number of samples was determined according to the number of variables and 253 subjects (83.77%) were selected in a stratified random sampling method as final samples. The data were collected through OCAI and the construct validity, also, analyzed using LISREL 8.70 software and a CFA method. The results obtained showed that OCAI questionnaire was a multi-dimensional construct and the four OCAI factors were confirmed to be as cultural profiles: Clan (6 items), Adhocracy (6 items), Market (6 items) and Hierarchy (6 items). The other result, confirmed the OCAI reliability suitability by computing internal consistency through cronbach &alpha test (r=0/86). Considering the confirmation of psychometric properties of OCAI and cultural profiles in factor analysis, organizational culture assessment instrument (OCAI) based on the competing values framework model (CVF) seems to be an appropriate instrument and theoretical framework for assessing the organizational culture in Iranian sports organizations (federations). Therefore, it is suggested that sport management researchers attempt to assess the organizational culture by using OCAI questionnaire in Iranian sport organizations.
Shiva Azadfada, Fereydoon Tondnevis, Anooshiravan Kazemnejad,
Volume 3, Issue 6 (12-2013)
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among servant leadership, team effectiveness, and team performance of the Iranian men's volleyball pro-league teams. Descriptive co-relational used as a research design. The statistical sample included players (n=173) and assistant coaches (n=66) from 15 teams. The data collected were gathered using two instruments: (a) The Organizational Leadership Assessment for Sports Teams that adjusted by researcher from The Organizational Leadership Assessment (Laub, 1999), (b) Team Excellence Survey (Larson & LaFasto, 1989). By conducting a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), all agent factors of two instruments were identified. Pearson, and Spearman correlation, t-test, simple, and multiple regressions were used for data analyzing. The results showed that players' perceptions of servant leadership were moderate and assistant coaches' perceptions of servant leadership were excellent. There was a statistically significant and positive correlation among servant leadership, team effectiveness, and team performance. In addition, servant leadership was a significant predictor for team effectiveness and team performance. The results of this study supported the application of servant leadership in professional sports.
Mahdi Latifi Fard, Hossein Akbari Yazdi, Marjan Saffari,
Volume 9, Issue 18 (12-2019)
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Although reputation construct enters early in sport but; not only supportive behavior isn’t new question, but also always have been noticed by sport teams. The present research is in search of be clarify that is sport that is prominent setting of emotion and feeling of spectator and fans, team reputation can appear spectator supportive behavior? In this research number of 580 persons as sample from spectator population’s fc. Esteghlal and Persepolis F.C. selected. Questionnaires because reputation emotional component (reputation perception construct) Were distributed as online that game day’s emotion didn’t impact on spectator answer. Jang et al. (2015) team reputation questionnaire consist of 6 subscales and 19 items, Ponzi et al. 2011 supportive behavior and reputation perception everyone had 4 items that adjusted in 5-points Likert scale. Questionnaire content validity have been evaluated by 7 professors in sport management. Alpha Cronbach’s coefficient has been measured for reliability. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) also used for construct validity. indeed, shown that team reputation predicted %42 changes of supportive behavior without reputation perception while with Presence this predicted %24. In conclusion reputation perception as emotional construct have more impact on supportive behavior than Functional and cognitive component.
Chalak Majidi, Marjan Saffari, Mohammad Khabiri,
Volume 10, Issue 19 (8-2020)
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In the recent years, adventure sports have been growing increasingly. Adventure sports are new and appealing activities that regularly include some kinds of physical and mental challenges and relative presence of natural environment. These activities are presenting new paths and sometime they called as a serious competitor for mainstream sport. The aim of this study was to present a paradigm for adventure sports development. The qualitative methodology used in this study has followed an interpretive approach that was achieved by grounded theory. Data was collected from literature, interviews, focus groups, adventure sports related documentary films and movies. Results of this study are presenting adventure sports paradigm. In this paradigm developmental causal conditions of adventure sports, contexture of adventure sports, existing intervening conditions and contextual conditions, strategies and tactics for developing adventure sports and finally consequences. To appropriate recognition and encountering with this field, that most probably will be one of the main part of sport, we suggest doing more scientific research, especially with futurology approaches.
Dr Mohammad Khabiri, Mohammad Reza Asadpour, Dr Abdolhossein Karampour,
Volume 11, Issue 21 (7-2021)
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Today, commercial companies have accepted that sportsponsoring can act as a powerful tool for promoting their value. This study examines the impact of sponsorship aspects on brand equity of sponsor while researching about Hamrah Aval Company. The research method is descriptive-analytical, and is practical in terms of research target. The research is implemented using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The statistical population of the research is consisted of the fans of Perspolis and Esteghlal football teams who are members of HamrahAval fan system.393 questionnaires were collected using stratified random sampling in the field.A researcher made questionnaire was used to collect primary data.The validity of the questionnaire was checked using confirmation of sport management and marketing professors, and its reliability was tested using Cronbach's alpha (α=0.95), and construct validity was made through confirmatory factor analysis.The findings showed that the suggested research model had a good fitness and all of the six aspects of sport sponsorship had a significant effect on the brand equity of the sponsor, and all the research hypotheses were confirmed.According to the findings, it is recommendedthat brand sponsors plan marketing activities (TV coverage and advertisements) to promote their brand equities.
Mr Mahdi Latifi Fard, Dr Marjan Saffari,
Volume 11, Issue 22 (12-2021)
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Fans like to talk about their favorite team and players with others. Professional team fans use social media to learn more about teams, connect with other fans, follow teams and players, and build a fan community. Social media by creating a network of users has become a platform for researchers to study fan behavior. Given that members of the fan community interact with each other, their opinions on social media also has determined relation to each other. The present study to understand and discover the relationship between fans 'opinions of El Clásico, used the network approach. In this study, Facebook was selected as the research platform to analyze the media consumption of fans about the El Clásico in the 2017-18 season. Finally, fan comments were divided into 14 categories. The results showed that the three nodes of "references to the team", "references to the individual" and "references to the game" are the most important categories that have kept the network of dialogue between the fans dynamic. While these three nodes of "references to the team", "references to the individual" and "references to the game" are important structurally and network-wise , but from a behaviorism point of view, team identification plays a key role in creating such a network. This means that the underlying role of the "use of us and them" node in the network of opinions is certain.
Zeinab Khodaverdi, Dr Abbas Bahram, Dr Hassan Khalaji, Dr Anoshirvan Kazemnejad, Dr Farhad Ghadiri,
Volume 12, Issue 23 (9-2022)
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This study aimed to address agreement level of performances on 3 selected motor skill assessment tools in a sample of Iranian first to fourth graders aged 7-10 year olds. The convenience sample included 164 healthy girls from public schools. A Pearson correlation coefficient was calculated on the association between MABC-2, KTK and TGMD-3 performances in graders. A one-way multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was conducted to compare performances means across grade levels. Low-to-moderate correlations were found between assessments across age in each assessment. In general, girls demonstrated higher scores across age cohorts. In conclusion, low-to-moderate associations among assessments instruments provide different pictures/levels of motor competency and should not be used interchangeably in studies.
Dr Javad Fesanghari, Dr Rasool Norouzi Seyed Hossini, Dr Marjan Saffari, Dr Hashem Kozechian ,
Volume 12, Issue 24 (12-2022)
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Nowadays, technology is becoming one of the most important factors that contribute to the Internationalization of recreational sports industry.This study was done to design a model to develop recreational sports by new technologies in Iran. This study was carried out with mixed Methods.In the qualitative part, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 participants through purposive and standard sampling methods. The content analysis method was used to analyze the data and in the same section, a questionnaire was prepared based on the identified themes from the qualitative part, which included the available dimensions and components. Questionnaires were distributed among 406 samples after confirmation of validity and reliability. Descriptive statistics and confirmatory factor analysis were used for analyze the data. The findings of this study showed that the main themes of the model of development of recreational sports through new technologies are divided into four parts: propulsion and stimuli, challenges of using new technologies, opportunities to use new technologies and consequences of using new technologies in the development of recreational sports. Presently, increasing human-computer equipment interaction is facilitating new ways of using technology in sports environments, and in the future, technology will bring structural changes in all sectors of sports, especially recreational activities.
Fariba Jalalyan, Shiva Azadfada, Farideh Ashraf Ganjouei,, Marjan Safari,
Volume 13, Issue 26 (12-2023)
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Talent management is one of the most important issues of human resource management in the world and it is still considered one of the important issues in many organizations and the importance of human resources is much higher than new technologies. There are more financial and material resources. The purpose of this research was to compile a talent management model in racquet sports with the foundational data theory approach. The present research method was qualitative and exploratory. The socio-statistics of this research were experts, professors and experts who deal with talent search in Iran's racket sports in the Ministry of Sports, Federations, Education and Culture, Academies and Sports Centers. Sampling Method It was non-probability sampling with purposeful selection. The sample size in this study was equal to 20 people. The measurement tool was an open interview, which was used to measure the reliability of the within-subject agreement method of two coders, based on which the obtained validity was equal to 0.78. Also, codings were analyzed based on three stages of open, central and selective coding. Based on data analysis, 159 primary concepts, 25 central codes and 5 selective codes were identified. Finally, it is suggested to improve the recruitment process in racquet sports by using the presented model, which will ultimately lead to the development of racquet sports in the country.
Hiwa Bahramfard, Ghodratallah Bagheri, Asadullah Kordnaeij, Ali Saberi,
Volume 15, Issue 29 (4-2025)
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Introduction and Purpose: Given the rapid pace of technological changes, any business that fails to adapt to environmental changes will undoubtedly fall behind in the competition. Therefore, in order to take advantage of emerging opportunities, entrepreneurs must make decisions in the shortest possible time. This makes entrepreneurial decision-making more complex and challenging. Accordingly, the present study aimed to investigate opportunity exploitation decisions with an emphasis on the role of entrepreneurial personality in sports businesses.
Methodology: This research employed a mixed-methods approach and is classified as developmental-applied in terms of its objective. In the first step, through meta-synthesis of 32 scholarly articles, 36 indicators were identified. In the second step, using thematic analysis of interviews with academic experts, 36 indicators were extracted, of which 27 were confirmed through the Delphi method. In the third step, narrative inquiry was used to explore the lived experiences of six entrepreneurial leaders in the field of sports, leading to the identification of 34 themes.
Findings: Based on the results, after integrating the three stages, 44 indicators were classified into seven dimensions. The validity and appropriateness of these dimensions were confirmed using the t-test and the four criteria of coherence, comprehensibility, generalizability, and control.
Conclusion: The findings suggest that entrepreneurial personality significantly contributes to improving decision-making regarding opportunity exploitation in sports and reducing environmental risk. This is achieved through the development of seven key roles: self-efficacy, autonomy, risk-taking, personal traits, creativity, perseverance, entrepreneurial networking, and entrepreneurial skills and experience.
Miss Shabbo Salimi, Phd Rasool Norouzi Seyed Hossini, Phd Marjan Saffari,
Volume 100, Issue 100 (10-2020)
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Introduction
With the expansion of information and communication technology and its introduction into the workplace, the world has witnessed the close relationship between the application of information technology in organizations and the improvement of performance, as well as the better and faster achievement of organizational goals. Social media, especially Instagram, creates a space for users to express their opinions, allowing companies to contact users directly and without intermediaries, at the right time and with minimal cost. With an understanding of the importance of technology in sales, we analyze the factors affecting the sales of sports goods in the virtual space of Instagram.
Methodology
This research aims to provide suitable suggestions to companies active in the production and sale of sports products to increase their sales. It utilizes textual data from comments and captions on Instagram and examines and analyzes posts and user opinions regarding sports products (specifically two brands: Adidas and Majid). The analyses were conducted in two sections: the first section (captions) analyzed the methods and manners of the advertisements by the sellers of the brands' products, extracting their advertising patterns and techniques. In the second section (comments), user opinions on the products presented on Instagram were examined and analyzed. Text analysis (posts and user comments) and sentiment analysis were key components of the analysis. For analyzing user comments, data obtained from the Instagram API, including three key parameters: the user's name, the date and time the comment was posted, and the content of the comments, were evaluated.
Discussion
The research findings indicate that companies, sellers, and brands should have a very organized plan for advertising throughout all periods of the year. Continuous interaction and proper activity with social network users can also play a role in increasing the motivation of representatives across the country. The study emphasizes that user-generated content (comments) is an effective way to increase the connection between a brand and its audience. Therefore, user feedback must be used in the manner described (the method implemented for analyzing comments) to increase sales and user satisfaction. Additionally, the findings emphasize identifying and establishing relationships with users to maintain and increase customer loyalty, particularly those who post numerous comments on advertised products on Instagram, as they can be used as an advertising campaign for the brand. This study provides a suitable solution for the proper presentation of sports products and advertising on social networks to make the products more well-received.
Farhad Farzan Moghadam, Rasool Norouzi Seyed Hossini, Mina Mostahfezian,
Volume 100, Issue 100 (10-2020)
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To remain competitive in the sports industry, enhancing brand equity has become a vital issue for private sports clubs. Therefore, understanding the causal relations determining factors for enhancing the brand equity of private sports clubs are of great importance. The research method employed in this study is a mixed (quCausaltative and quantitative) approach. The quCausaltative part follows the grounded theory approach, while the quantitative part involves interpretive structural modeling. The participants in this research were marketing and sports marketing professionals and experts. Purposive sampling was used, resulting in a sample size of 15 individuals. The data collection instrument for the quCausaltative part was semi-structured interviews, and for the quantitative part, a 10×10 matrix was used.The quCausaltative data analysis was conducted through three stages of open, selective, and theoretical coding, while the quantitative data analysis involved interpretive structural modeling and MICMAC analysis. The findings revealed 10 main factors related to enhancing the brand equity of private sports clubs.
