Explaining the factors affecting the implementation of research and development strategies in sports

Goudarzi, Mahdi; Abdolahi, Sevda; Shahi Ganzagh, Majid

doi:10.22098/rsmm.2025.15753.1407

Explaining the factors affecting the implementation of research and development strategies in sports

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

² MA of Sport Management, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran

³ BA of Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran

10.22098/rsmm.2025.15753.1407

Abstract

Purpose: In the process of creating competitive advantages, formulation of research and development strategies plays a very important role. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of explaining the effective factors on the implementation of research and development strategies in sports.
Methods: According to its main purpose, this research is among applied researches, and qualitative method with exploratory approach and database method were used to collect its data. The validity of this research was examined and confirmed by the interviewees and then expert professors. Reliability was also obtained using the intra-subject agreement method of 0.91. SPSS software was used for inferential statistical tests and PLS software was used for confirmatory factor analysis and path analysis. By conducting in-depth and semi-structured interviews with 14 key strategic management experts who were selected using the snowball sampling method, 77 primary concepts were collected during the recoding process, and from them 10 major categories and 21 secondary concepts. extracted.
Results: In the central coding stage, the link between these categories under the headings of causal conditions including organizational readiness and organizational behavior; background conditions including organizational capital and recognition of changes; Intervening conditions including strategic thinking and structural factors; Strategies included technological research and support, and outcomes included financial function and organizational function.
Conclusion: Based on the findings, it is concluded that the main task of research and development in sports is to provide the required knowledge with the least cost and the most benefit, and by improving the state of research and development, the level of service production increases and the costs decrease, therefore, to implement research and development strategies in Exercise should be fully focused on the identified factors.

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