Ebrahim Karimi; Akram Esfahani; Mojtaba Ahmadi; Nasser Bay
Abstract
The present research was designed and implemented with the aim of developing a model of cultural diplomacy in professional sports in Iran. This study was a mixed method and an exploratory mixed research design. The statistical population of the qualitative section included selected professors familiar ...
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The present research was designed and implemented with the aim of developing a model of cultural diplomacy in professional sports in Iran. This study was a mixed method and an exploratory mixed research design. The statistical population of the qualitative section included selected professors familiar with cultural diplomacy and sports diplomacy and some selected sports managers of the country who were selected purposefully (14 people). The statistical population in the quantitative part includes the statistical population of the qualitative part and the managers of sports and youth departments of the country's provinces, the heads of sports federations, considering the frequency of the statistical population, the sample size and the probability of sampling error were considered to be 92 people. The data collection tool in this research was a semi-structured interview and a researcher-made questionnaire extracted from the qualitative section. In order to analyze the data of the present research, coding was used in the qualitative part and structural equation method was used in the quantitative part. In the qualitative part of the research, it was determined that the categories were defined in the form of 17 categories and 80 conceptual codes, and in the heart of the 6 dimensions of the paradigm model in the form of causal factors (3 categories), the main category: cultural diplomacy in sports (3 categories), strategies ( 3 categories), background conditions (2 categories), intervening conditions (3 categories) and consequences (3 categories) w