Investigating the Impacts of Organizing Processes Changes on Strategic Foresight Implementation Framework in Sport Industry

Subject Areas : Futurology

Ali Hemmati Afif ¹ , Mahdi Nikooye ² , Mohammadmahdi Mozaffari ³ , einollah keshavarz turk ⁴

1 - IKIU
2 - PhD. Candidate of Imam Khomeini International University
3 - Director of Industrial Management at Imam Khomeini University of Qazvin
4 - IKIU

Received: 2019-12-08 Accepted : 2020-02-16 Published : 2020-02-20

Keywords: Strategic foresight, Sport Industry, Organizing Routines, Organizing Processes,

Abstract :

Implementing organizing activities with foresightfulness decisions is critical for competitive success due to uncertainty in environment of sport organizations. So strategic foresight has been developed in order to create and achieve sustained competitive advantage. Applying and implementing strategic foresight by middle managers is important because of their responsibilities and authorization in managing, controlling and organizing of the organizations. This article aim is to identify factors influence on dissipation of strategic foresight implementation based on changes in organizing processes. In other word, considering organizing processes role in implementation of strategic foresight, this research investigates the effects of organizing processes and its related associated routines on strategic foresight implementation. Therefore, factors that have influence on successful or unsuccessful implementation of strategic foresight in sport organizations, should be identified. The article aim is to identify influence of organizing processes and their associated routines (rhetoric of legitimation, Instrumental rationality, suppression of creative freedom, and the formulation of solutions in search of problems) on successful strategic foresight implementation with using partial least square (PLS) software.