Sport Management Studies

Study of Factors Affecting the Capacity Building of Organizations in Response to Social Responsibility of Three-Branch Theory

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Hadi Vatan Khah 1
Ali Fahimi Nezhad 2
Seyed Mostafa Tayebi Sani 2

1 Ph.D. Student of Sport Management, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood Branch, Shahrood, Iran

2 Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Islamic Azad University, Shahroud Branch, Shahrood, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22089/smrj.2019.7803.2701
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to study the factors affecting the improvement of sports organizations' capacity to respond to social responsibility using the tricyclic theory. This research is a descriptive-analytical research that was conducted in the field. The statistical population of the present study included managers of Khorasan Razavi sport organizations including managers of the Department of Education, Physical Education and Health of the Education Organization, managers of the Sports and Youth Organization of the Khorasan Razavi Province, as well as some experts in the field of social responsibility in the province. They were Khorasan Razavi. According to snowball method, 19 individuals were identified as the sample. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire with 15 questions. The validity of this questionnaire was confirmed by eight university professors. The reliability of this questionnaire was also 0.86. The TOPSIS method was used to select the ranking of these factors. All data analysis was performed using BT TopSis SoLver software. The results showed that creating an index for evaluating organizations in the field of social responsibility with a coefficient of closeness of 0.9847 was identified as the most important factor affecting the improvement of the capacity of sports organizations to respond to social responsibility. Generally formulating and setting standards and benchmarks in sports organizations for evaluating and evaluating their programs and activities regarding social responsibility is understood as an important issue.

Keywords

Social Responsibility
Sports Organizations
Capacity Building
Evaluation
Subjects
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Sport Management Studies
Volume 11, Issue 58
January & February 2020
January and February 2020
Pages 201-218

  • Receive Date 26 August 2019
  • Revise Date 24 November 2019
  • Accept Date 22 December 2019

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