Sport Management Studies

Financial Support: An Approach to Get Fund of Sports Projects in Western Azerbaijan Province

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Sport Sciences Research Institute of Iran

2 Young Researchers and Elite Club, Urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran

3 Assistant Professor of Sport Management, University of Isfahan

4 Ph. D. Student of Strategic Management in Sports Organizations, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran

Abstract
In current situation of Iran sport industry, it is necessary to implement marketing activities such as getting financial supports in order to promote sports projects. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate barriers of attracting capital for sport projects of Western Azerbaijan province. Surveying the research design, the methodology was applied in terms of purpose, field study in terms of data collection and descriptive in terms of method. According to the research purposes, the populations were sport management experts, officials of the sport &adolescent organization of Western Azerbaijan province and sport marketing experts. In this regard 50 people were selected and 42 questionnaires were answered by selected samples. A researcher-made questionnaire retrieved from Onsori questionnaire (2014) was developed in a closed format. Assessment of the most important factors shows that management and organizational factors are the most important factors of attracting capital for sport projects of the province. The least important factors are social and cultural factors. The results indicate the necessity of attracting financial supports and it would be achieved by effectiveness of advertising, increasing the amount of private investment and development of manufacturing and service companies.

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Sport Management Studies
Volume 10, Issue 47
April & May 2018
March and April 2018
Pages 67-84

  • Receive Date 18 December 2016
  • Revise Date 11 February 2017
  • Accept Date 05 March 2017

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