ghasem rahimi sarshabadrani

The current research was carried out with the aim of strategic foresight of entrepreneurship in Iran's sports industry. This research was applied with a qualitative-quantitative approach. The research participants were experts in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship in sports and management professors, and 20 of them were selected as a research sample until the researcher reached theoretical saturation. Data analysis was done in the qualitative part by coding theoretical bases and expert interviews. In the quantitative part, the effective factors were identified, they were entered into the matrix of cross-effects in the Mikmak software, and the key factors were extracted, and then the ideal future scenario of the entrepreneurship of the sports industry in Iran was compiled. The research results showed that there are 10 common factors between influential and influential key factors and 30 possible situations were defined for 10 factors. In the scenario writing section, 12 scenarios have a very high probability of occurrence, and the first scenario is the most likely scenario for the development of entrepreneurship in Iran's sports industry. As a result, managers and planners should be prepared to deal with all possible situations by considering all conditions.

Information systems play a significant role in efficiency management. An information system is a set of components that interact to produce knowledge, which includes hardware, software, data, procedures, and people. So, the great attractiveness of this area makes sports organizations act more carefully and even promote themselves to the world level; Therefore, this research aimed to identify and explain the critical indicators of the success in sports organizations’ information systems. This comparison was made in the world-class category with a future studies approach.

This study is mixed research with an exploratory approach. In the qualitative section, by using the mix method, the selection of original articles with appropriate quality (29 items) and containing the success factors of world-class information systems have been made, and they were analyzed using the content analysis method. In the quantitative section, the researchers reached a consensus on the critical factors by using snowball sampling and selecting the eight members of Experts using the Delphi method in three rounds.

The findings showed that factors such as data security, access levels, integrated communication between internal systems, network, and internet security are among the success factors of world-class organizations, and it was also determined in the Delphi round that the mentioned factors are among the critical factors in sports organizations. Results showed that, concerning the broadness of communication in sports organizations, there are solutions that can improve them at the local to international level in terms of success.

Originality:

We tried to present the critical success indicators of world-class information systems in sports organizations in an original study with a forward-looking approach.

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the role of sports tourism development in job creation. The study was a descriptive survey study conducted in the field. The research population consisted of professors and graduate students studying sports management, entrepreneurship, and tourism at Tehran universities. The research samples were selected through a convenience sampling approach, and finally, 190 people completed the questionnaires. The instrument used in this research was adopted from library studies and literature reviews as well as interviews with five experts. This questionnaire has 10 items for the tourism development component, three items for the direct job creation component, and three items for the indirect job creation component. The face and content validity of the final questionnaire was confirmed by eight professors of sports management, entrepreneurship, and tourism. Convergent and divergent validity and composite reliability were checked and confirmed by the PLS software. Findings indicated that sports tourism had a positive and significant effect on direct job creation and all its dimensions; additionally, sports tourism had a positive and significant effect on indirect job creation and all its dimensions. The study results demonstrate that the development of sports tourism in Iran provides a basis for increasing direct and indirect job creation and permanent, seasonal, and part-time employment.

Sport places are the most important of software section in sport and one of bases of healthy system in society that their sustainable development is one of main duty of sport managers, thus this paper aims to develop a model of sustainable development in sport places based on the H3SE model. The statistical population of this paper encompasses all experts, sport places managers and professors in the field of sport places that according to SPSS Sample Power software, the sample size is determined to include 100 people. The data gathering tool in this paper was a researcher-made questionnaire, in which the questions are obtained by carefully studying the literature review as well as discussing with experts in the field of sport. The data gathering tool was designed according to 5 components (health and ergonomics, safety, security, human resources, and environment) and 25 items (each component has 5 items). The obtained Cronbach's alpha in this paper is above 0.85. As the four tests of Cronbach's alpha, composite reliability, Spearman correlation reliability of questions, and shared reliability had acceptable results, the construct reliability of the model is confirmed. Moreover, the construct validity of the model is confirmed by measuring the model test in the form of equation modeling. The results show that the items of human resources, security, safety, health and ergonomics, and environment have a significant role in the sustainable development of sport places according to priority. Considering to sport places sustainable development model in society healthy system, sport promotion in all sections, sport managers can use of this research results.