Mohammad Khabiri; Abuzar Fattahi Zadeh
Volume 18, Issue 43 , June 2019, , Pages 143-164
Abstract
In the past century, based on its fluid nature and democratization process, politics has entered in new areas which they were not relevant before or not conceived as the political. Sports area is one of these new political arenas. In result of popularization, borders of sports and politics are changed ...
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In the past century, based on its fluid nature and democratization process, politics has entered in new areas which they were not relevant before or not conceived as the political. Sports area is one of these new political arenas. In result of popularization, borders of sports and politics are changed and interfered. This phenomenon made joint territories for both of them. Diplomacy and diplomatic procedures are one of these territories that sports internationalization inevitably brought them to this arena and made recent and strategic concept of sports diplomacy. But despite the concept common make sense, its definitions and borders are not determined or explained. The study is to answer this question that what is sports diplomacy? Thus, we conceptually analyzed and explained the subject with exploratory approach and used documentary method to collect the needed data. 15 tools, appeared by objective and lived grounds, that can be used to accelerate development, to force soft power, to establish platforms for dialogue in multi-cultural societies and to promote peaceful relations between states.
Rasoul Tarighi; Seyyed Nasrollah Sadjadi; Mehrzad Hamidi; Mohammad Khabiri
Volume 17, Issue 42 , March 2019, , Pages 93-112
Abstract
The study is to identify the effective factors on development of electronic marketing capability in professional sport of Iran. This study is a descriptive, and in view of objective, is a practical research. A questionnaire was made by the researcher, based on Likert 5 option scale, and its validity ...
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The study is to identify the effective factors on development of electronic marketing capability in professional sport of Iran. This study is a descriptive, and in view of objective, is a practical research. A questionnaire was made by the researcher, based on Likert 5 option scale, and its validity is confirmed by professionals and professors. Moreover, its reliability is examined by Cronbach’s alpha test. Populations consist of 2 groups (80 people), which involve Faculty members of Marketing Management field (20 peoples) and Faculty members of Sport Management (60 people) field. In regard to limitation of populations, the number of samples was equals to populations and sampling method is all-counting. Descriptive statistics are utilized for describing Demographic status of respondents and their responses to research questions as well, and Partial least squares regression test are used in inferential statistics. For this reason, soft wares as PLS, MS-Excel and SPSS version 18 are operated. The Results Showed that factors include management factors, knowledge management, customer relationship management, strategies, environmental and competitive factors, website features, organizational culture, supply chain management, brand factors and resources, with significant priorities respectively, were effective factors on electronic marketing capability in professional sport of Iran.
Mostafa Hamidi; Mohammad Khabiri; Hassan Rohban Fard; Hassan Gharayagh Zandi
Volume 17, Issue 42 , March 2019, , Pages 113-128
Abstract
It is highly important to identify the factors influencing the observations of ethical values by players and coaches in small and great events. Therefore, the present research is to examin the relation between emotional intelligence and ethical decision-making among soccer coaches in Tehran. This research ...
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It is highly important to identify the factors influencing the observations of ethical values by players and coaches in small and great events. Therefore, the present research is to examin the relation between emotional intelligence and ethical decision-making among soccer coaches in Tehran. This research is descriptive- co relational, and is conducted in the field. The subjects of this study were all the coaches of the Premier League in Tehran soccer (Tehran Vision) in 1394 which includes 62 people.
The tools employed included standard questionnaires of decision-making in Caswell’s (2003) difficult situations, and Lan et al’s (2009) emotional intelligence questionnaire. The data were analyzed through Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression tests. The results showed that there is a positive, significant correlation between all the subscales of emotional intelligence and the ethical decision-making of the coaches. Finally, the results of the regression showed that emotional intelligence and self-regulation subscales and optimism can anticipate the ethical decision-making of the coaches.