Modeling the effect of organizational agility on organizational entrepreneurship with the mediating role of the intellectual capital in the ministry of Sports and Youth of Iran

Subject Areas : Sport Sciences Quarterly

saeideh  maghsoudlou ¹ (دانشجوی دکتری، گروه تربیت بدنی، واحد گرگان، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، گرگان، ایران)
zynolabedin  fallah ² (دانشیار گروه تربیت بدنی، واحد گرگان، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، گرگان ،ایران)
taher  bahlekeh ³ (استادیار گروه تربیت بدنی، واحد گرگان، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، گرگان، ایران.)
asra  askari ⁴ (استادیار گروه تربیت بدنی، واحد گرگان، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، گرگان، ایران.)

Received: 2021-08-17 Accepted : 2021-08-17 Published : 2021-04-21

Keywords: Organizational Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Capital, Organizational Agility, sports and youth,

Abstract :

The main aim of this study was to modeling the effect of organizational agility on organizational entrepreneurship with the mediating role of the intellectual capital in the Ministry of Sports and Youth of Iran. The statistical population of this study included all employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth that based on Cochran's formula, 268 of these employees were selected as a statistical sample by stratified random sampling. The tools used to collect research data included three standard questionnaires of Sharifi and Yang's (2004) Organizational Agility, Bonits's (2008) Intellectual Capital and Brown's (1997) Organizational Entrepreneurship. The questionnaire used have 16, 12 and 18 items with a five-point Likert scale, respectively. To evaluate the validity of the research tool, the opinions of 8 PhDs in sport management were used and the reliability of the questionnaires in a pilot study by using Cronbach's alpha for organizational agility, intellectual capital and organizational entrepreneurship was 0.78, 0.81 and 0.83, respectively which indicate their reliability is acceptable. The research findings showed organizational agility had a positive and significant impact on organizational entrepreneurship (t=15.511, β=0.722). The results also showed organizational agility had a positive and significant impact on the intellectual capital (t=46.561, β=0.804). Intellectual capital also had a positive and significant impact on organizational entrepreneurship (t=3.878, β=0.198). Finally, the results showed organizational agility with the mediating role of the employees' intellectual capital had a positive effect on organizational entrepreneurship (t=3.869, β=0.181).

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