Technological discontinuities pose serious challenges to top managers’ attention. These discontinuities, which often occur at the fringes of an industry, are usually driven by innovative and (often) venture capital-backed start-ups creating new products and transforming existing industries in ways that are difficult for incumbent managers to understand against the backdrop of their existing cog...

this study aimed to find the relationship between communication skills and leadership styles. the methodology of this field study was descriptive-correlation. a sample of sixty five isfahan’s media managers who were chosen randomly participated in this study. the standard multi-factor leadership questionnaire and communication skills questionnaire were used to collect data. the collected data w...

the aim of this study was to survey four fundamental effective factors in sport sponsorship decision making. for this purpose, viewpoints of 30 experts and active individuals in sport sponsorship such as managers of sponsor corporations, authorities of sport federations and clubs were analyzed. the method of this research was qualitative and explorative and was performed through interviews. the...

This publication discusses the use of psycholinguistic tools in organizational research. The example a comprehensive study managerial culture business organization has been considered, pilot part which was problem-targeted survey respondents among top managers. respective textual results were reduced to lemmas and their frequency analysis carried out. predominant n-grams texts also identified. ...

Objectives: This study aimed to improve the practice of individuals operating in a sport organization by providing an intervention to develop emotion abilities and strategies. Design: A two-phase action research approach was adopted to facilitate the objective and to assess the intervention‟s effectiveness. Method: In the first phase of the intervention, 25 individuals fulfilling a range of rol...

the aim of this study was to design a student sport strategy of islamic azad university. this study was a description application study and from the aspect of aim was practical. statistical population consisted of 94 managers and experts of physical education general office of islamic azad university, selected physical education managers and experts of faculties of islamic azad university and p...

Using a Systematic Quantitative Literature Review (SQLR) approach, this article consolidates studies on the job characteristics (top-down process of design) and crafting (bottom-up components sport-related jobs. The SQLR maps emerging research topic design in sport provides direction agenda to guide scholarship. Out 5,974 retrieved documents, total 187 academic articles published English journa...