تدوین و توسعه الگوی کمی کارآفرینی ورزشی فدراسیون ورزش های همگانی

The Federation of Popular Sports can create a competitive advantage for itself through sports entrepreneurship. Therefore, the aim of this study was to present the sports entrepreneurship model of the Federation of Popular Sports.
The present study was a mixed type (qualitative and quantitative). The statistical population of this study consisted of sports entrepreneurship experts of the Federation of Popular Sports in the Ministry of Sports and Youth (100 people), heads and secretaries of the country's sports federations (50 people), and academic elites who have conducted research in the field of sports entrepreneurship (20 people). Data were collected through interviews and questionnaires. The sample size continued for interviews until theoretical saturation (50 people) was reached, and in the quantitative part, the sampling method was in the form of total counts, in which 310 questionnaires were collected. Confirmatory factor analysis methods and structural equation modeling using PLS software were used to analyze the data.
Findings: The model presented in this study included causal conditions (components of the need to pay attention to changes and developments and the necessity of developing talents), the category of contextual conditions (component of the internal environment), the category of intervening conditions (components of effective coaches, club support and backing, and management obstacles), the central category (component of sports entrepreneurship), the category of strategies (components of improving athletes' capabilities, employing new coaches, interacting with other countries, and an equipped sports environment), and the category of consequences (components of changing values in the General Sports Federation and the dynamics of the sports economy) (P<0.001).
The model designed in the present study about presenting the sports entrepreneurship model of the General Sports Federation can be used by sports entrepreneurship specialists and the General Sports Federation. This model identifies and determines the path of managers' activities for the development of sports entrepreneurship in the General Sports Federation, and by considering changes and developments and the necessity of developing talents, internal environment, effective coaches, club support and backing, and management obstacles, improving athletes' capabilities, employing new coaches, interacting with other countries and an equipped sports environment, changing values in the General Sports Federation, and the dynamics of the sports economy, they develop sports entrepreneurship. The model presented in this study provides a comprehensive and practical tool for evaluating the performance of sports federations. This model can help managers and policymakers to develop and promote sports entrepreneurship