Document Type : Research Paper
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1 Assistant Professor of Sports Management, Faculty of Sports Sciences, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
2 M.Sc, of Sports Management, Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, University of Qom, Qom, Iran
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to identify the challenges faced in publishing sports books in Iran. This research is considered as applied studies in terms of purpose, which is descriptive in terms of data collection and exploratory in terms of data certainty. The research method is mixed (qualitative-quantitative). The statistical population in the qualitative part was the members of the academic staff in the field of sports science, and in the quantitative part, it included professors, researchers and authors who had experience in publishing sports books. The sampling method was purposeful. In the first stage of the research, 22 people from the statistical community were interviewed through the purposeful sampling method, and the challenges of publishing sports books were identified. In the second and third stages, the identified factors were examined by the Delphi group (21 people); In these two stages, the factors that had at least %70 positive answers remained for the next stage. In the final stage, the factors identified in the previous three stages were ranked using a five-point Likert questionnaire. The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by 10 professors of sports science department. Friedman's test was used to rank factors in SPSS software Based on the findings of this research, the most important challenges of book publishing in Iran are in two general categories: internal (professional) and external (cultural, social, political, economic).
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