Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 1- Ph.D. Student of Sport Management, , University of Kurdistan
2 2- Assistant Professor of Sport Management, University of Kurdistan
3 3- professor Sport Management, University of San Francisco, CA, USA
4 4- Associate Professor, Sport Management, La Trobe University, Melbourne Campus, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Abstract
The purpose of this study was the factors affecting economic diplomacy in sports. The research method is a qualitative case study and the participants are sports directors of the country. Using purposive sampling method and theoretical saturation technique, key informants (including 13 people) were selected to identify the framework of the economic diplomacy model and interviewed. The tool used to identify the factors of the economic diplomacy model, interview It was semi-structured (with focus groups) and studied documents. To ensure the validity and reliability of the study, the Lincoln and Guba evaluation methods were used. International law is the popularity of sport that can influence the development of economic diplomacy.Development of sports infrastructure, development of sports tourism, transfer of players and coaches hosting sporting events are the main underlying factors and two categories of sanctions factors The factors and factors of lack of economic open space have been considered as intervening categories.The central category resulting from causal conditions, national culture and image, changes in the global environment, structural factors and interactionism has also been considered. To the set of concepts that from side to side m The owners and the final codes extracted have named a sub-category for the development of economic security in sports. And the last part of the economic diplomacy development model includes the consequences that technology, investment and investment in the country's sports and the development of sponsors were identified.
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