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According to their functions, the media can provide the ground for the participation of more people in the society in sports activities, especially for teenagers and young people. The purpose of this research is to provide a model for improving the quality of media programs in order to attract teenagers and young people to participate in sports and physical activity. This research has been done with the fundamental purpose and grounded theory method (systematic model of Strauss and Corbin) and with a qualitative approach. Also, the data has been collected in the field. The statistical population of this research includes experts familiar with the media, sports participants, sports media and psychologists of adolescents and young people, as well as researchers, university professors and people involved in sports media, public relations managers of sports organizations and some young and adolescent athletes. It has been mentioned that 25 people have been selected by targeted sampling method. In data analysis for open, central and selective coding, the qualitative approach of grounded theory was used and open coding was done by analyzing the interviews. The model for improving the quality of media programs in order to attract teenagers and young people to participate in sports and physical activity is based on causal conditions (human resource, organizational cooperation and organizational structure) and taking into account extractive strategies (media content, programming, planning and evaluation) which is affected by background conditions (infrastructure and cultural) and intervening conditions (economic and legal political factors), consequences such as sports development, health improvement and social effects can be observed. Specialized programming with special attention to the benefits of physical activity, the sports needs of teenagers and young people, the facilities and equipment available in sports centers, etc. can improve the quality of media programs and help attract different groups, especially teenagers and young people, to sports.

The purpose of the current research is to explain the strategies for developing a digital organizational culture to reduce employee withdrawal behaviors at the Ministry of Sports and Youth. This research is mixed in terms of practical purpose, using a descriptive-survey data collection method and a research approach. The qualitative part utilized the theme analysis method, while the quantitative part employed structural equation modeling. The statistical population for the qualitative part included academic professors specializing in organizational culture, digital culture, and organizational behavior in sports organizations, along with selected managers with over 5 years of management experience and master's or doctorate education, chosen through purposeful or theoretical sampling. The criteria for selection were a minimum of two research projects in the mentioned fields (18 people). In the quantitative part, the statistical population comprised all Ministry of Sports and Youth employees (901 people). Research tools included semi-structured interviews and questionnaires. The thematic analysis results indicated that digital culture, encompassing innovation, open culture, digital mindset, agility, flexibility, customer orientation, and data-driven decision-making, can influence employee withdrawal behaviors such as team, voluntary, job-related, and disciplinary behaviors. The quantitative results also demonstrated a good fit for the research model. Therefore, enhancing the role of new technologies in the organization, fostering a digital organizational culture, and managerial efforts to enhance digital performance can create a context for reducing withdrawal behaviors.

The purpose of this study was to compare the problems of sports tourism tours in domestic and foreign events. Purposeful and theoretically saturated sampling was done and in a quantitative part by descriptive-survey method that the statistical population of domestic tours tourists 320 people by Morgan table method and available sampling and tourists of foreign events tours 100 people by random access method was selected and used The researcher-made questionnaire was taken from the combination of the qualitative section and the research background, which had 45 items in the form of 8 factors, as well as the validity and reliability of the qualitative and quantitative sections. According to the findings of the quality sector, eight factors of transportation, infrastructure, culture, safety and security, ticket sales, management, economy and accommodation were identified as problems of sports tourism tours in domestic and foreign events. In the quantitative section, the identified factors were ranked according to the factor, managerial, cultural, safety and security factors, ticket sales, economy, accommodation, infrastructure and transportation, respectively. Also, the comparison of the two groups of sports tourism tours in domestic and foreign events showed that ticket sales, transportation, economic, safety and security factors in the group related to domestic events tourism tours and managerial, residential and cultural factors in the group related to events tourism tours foreign sports are of the highest importance.

The purpose of this study was to design a paradigm model of the challenges of sports tourism tours and to offer proposed solutions with a data-based approach.

This research has a qualitative approach and the data theory method has been used as the research method. The method of data collection is the study of theoretical foundations and in-depth and open (unstructured) interviews with 13 professors of sports management, managers and experts of domestic and foreign tourism tour. The sampling method was continued purposefully and to the extent of theoretical saturation. The validity of this study was reviewed and confirmed by the interviewees and then expert professors. Reliability was obtained 68.6% using the process audit study method. For data analysis, continuous comparison method was used during the three stages of open, axial and selective coding.

The components of causal, intervening, contextual, strategies, consequences and main phenomena were identified in the model. The findings of this study include a comprehensive model that has been identified as the main challenges of sports tourism tours, which is very effective in adopting strategies to reduce these challenges as a framework for developing sports tourism and improving the status of sports tourism tours in domestic and foreign events.

The main aim of this study was to modeling the effect of organizational agility on organizational entrepreneurship with the mediating role of the intellectual capital in the Ministry of Sports and Youth of Iran. The statistical population of this study included all employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth that based on Cochran's formula, 268 of these employees were selected as a statistical sample by stratified random sampling. The tools used to collect research data included three standard questionnaires of Sharifi and Yang's (2004) Organizational Agility, Bonits's (2008) Intellectual Capital and Brown's (1997) Organizational Entrepreneurship. The questionnaire used have 16, 12 and 18 items with a five-point Likert scale, respectively. To evaluate the validity of the research tool, the opinions of 8 PhDs in sport management were used and the reliability of the questionnaires in a pilot study by using Cronbach's alpha for organizational agility, intellectual capital and organizational entrepreneurship was 0.78, 0.81 and 0.83, respectively which indicate their reliability is acceptable. In order to analyze the data, descriptive and inferential statistics were used. The research findings showed organizational agility had a positive and significant impact on organizational entrepreneurship (t=15.511, β=0.722). The results also showed organizational agility had a positive and significant impact on the intellectual capital (t=46.561, β=0.804). Intellectual capital also had a positive and significant impact on organizational entrepreneurship (t=3.878, β=0.198). Finally, the results showed organizational agility with the mediating role of the employees' intellectual capital had a positive effect on organizational entrepreneurship (t=3.869, β=0.181). According to the research results, it is recommended to develop the ability of the employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth to make decisions in different working conditions, as well as to train them to use job opportunities in the best way.

The present study was conducted with the aim of designing a model of barriers to the advancement of sports justice in  schools of deprived areas with a mixed method. The present study was a sequential exploratory research and a survey one. The research population in the qualitative section included sports teachers in deprived areas that were purposefully selected for qualitative interviews (interviews with 15 participants until reaching the theoretical saturation). The research population of the quantitative section consisted of 181 sports teachers . The data collection tool in the present study was a semi-structured interview and a researcher-developed questionnaire. In order to analyze the research data, coding in the qualitative part and structural equation method in the quantitative part were conducted. In the qualitative part, 25 concept codes and 5 main categories were extracted. In the quantitative part, all 5 main extracted categories (economic, manpower, management, infrastructure, motivation) had a proper fitness.