Tayebeh Zargar; Steven Rynne
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the internal relationships between the dimensions of social responsibility of sports clubs in Iran with the DEMATEL method and its method was mixed and its design was of the harmonization type. In the first part of this research, the content analysis method ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the internal relationships between the dimensions of social responsibility of sports clubs in Iran with the DEMATEL method and its method was mixed and its design was of the harmonization type. In the first part of this research, the content analysis method was used and in the quantitative part, the descriptive-survey method was used. The statistical population of this study consisted of experts who were purposefully selected and based on theoretical saturation, the total number of participating experts was equal to 12 people. Data collection tools were interviews and questionnaires and qualitative section data were analyzed using coding and quantitative section data were analyzed using DEMATEL method. The findings showed that the dimensions of social responsibility of sports clubs include social, economic, transparency, cultural, moral, legal, benevolent, and environmental and knowledge responsibility. Also, moral responsibility had the most impact and interaction and knowledge responsibility had the least impact, and finally it was found that cultural, transparency, economic and social responsibilities have a variable causal role and moral, legal, environmental, benevolent and knowledge responsibilities. Have the role of a disabled variable. According to the findings, it is suggested to the responsible organizations to include the dimensions of responsibility identified in this research in the statutes of the relevant clubs and to define the responsibilities.
