Identifying and prioritizing factors influencing entrepreneurship in selected organizational Sports

Seyed Ali Naghavi¹ MirMohammad Asadi²

1) MSc Industrial Management at Science and Arts University
2) Assistant Professor, Faculty Member of Science and Arts University

IOI Code : XYGH-BDHDG
Publication : International Conference on Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship(ieconf.ir)
Abstract :
    This study seeks to identify and prioritize the factors affecting organizational entrepreneurship in sports organizations. the research method respecting the goals, the application and data collection routine is a survey – descriptive method, and the questionnaire is set for collecting the required data. Statistical population of this study consists two parts; that is at the first part, in order to identify factors influencing entrepreneurship, a sample of 250 employees of the sports organizations, Including physical education organization, sports federations and physical education departments of selected provinces through using stratified random sampling method, were selected and analyzed. In Part II, In order to prioritize the key factors identified, 10 university professors who had mastered the scientific and practical research on the subject were asked to contribute in this affair. Data analysis was accomplished through using SPSS software for performing descriptive statistics and LISREL software was used to perform confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM). The results showed that 8 factors including superior-management support, organizational culture, strategy of organization, organizational structure, technology, effective communication, organizational systems, monitoring and evaluation comprise dominate cases regarding corporate entrepreneurship; meanwhile, the relationship between these 8 factors is significant. The results of interpretive structural modeling showed that superior-management support maintains the highest penetrative power and the least dependent among other 7 key factors.

Keywords : entrepreneurship corporate entrepreneurship sports organizations