Presenting a model of resistance economy governance in Iranian sports: Antecedents, futures, and social consequences of sanctions conditions

Subject Areas : Sociological studies of sports

Vahid Rajabi ¹ , Mohammad SoltanHosaini ^{2 *} , Mina Mostahfezian ³

1 - Ph.D on sport management, Sport Medicine Research Center, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran
2 - University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
3 - Associate professor on sport management, Sport Medicine Research Center, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran

Received: 2024-12-29 Accepted : 2025-01-27 Published : 2025-05-23

Keywords: Improvement, economic governance, sports, resistance economy approach, ,

Abstract :

The research method is a qualitative case study, and the participants are sports managers in the country and representatives of the Islamic Consultative Assembly. Using purposive sampling and theoretical saturation techniques, key informants (including 17 people to identify the framework of political-legal interactions) were selected and interviewed. The tools used to identify the factors of the political-legal interactions model of sports organizations and the Islamic Consultative Assembly were semi-structured interviews (with focus groups) and document study. To ensure the validity and reliability of the study, the Linoclon and Guba assessment method was used. The paradigm model of this research was designed based on the paradigm model of Strauss and Corbin.

In this research, environmental factors, governance factors; ethical factors, social factors and structural factors were identified as categories related to causal conditions. The development of economic rules, opportunism, creation of financial infrastructure, standardization of governance, cost control and value proposition are the main contextual factors. And two categories of attention to sports bankruptcy and lack of professional behavior of sports managers are considered as intervening categories. Approaches, processes, political neutrality and influential behavior are considered as The title of the central category and in this research, creating a platform for strategic decision-making, idea evaluation, and creating economic growth and development policies are considered as the strategies of this research.

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