Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant Professor of Motor behavior and Sport Management, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

2 Ph.D. Student of Sport Management, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

3 M. Sc of Sport Management, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Abstract

This research aims at reviewing content analysis and trend of scientific- research sport management printed articles in domestic publications. To this end, electronic versions available in eight scientific research publications between1380-1392 were gathered. In this research, 710 articles were reviewed. The methodology of this research is also content analysis. The used material consists of a coded list check that its narration was measured by sport management specialists. To assure from accuracy of the data, we use coded papers. It is worth mentioning that analysis of data is done by excel and SPSS 20 software at the meaningful level of 0.05. Findings of this research show that near to 45 percent of sport management articles refers to organizational behavior area. Also, sport management publications and Sport management studies, all together cover about 66 percent of all articles. Tendency toward marketing, entrepreneurship and enterprise is another result of this research. Generally speaking, analysis of sport management articles in researched areas shows the increase of quantity in articles tendency, research methods, used software and its incremental trend all identify a hopeful future for this field.

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