Designing Corporate Support Model with the Dimensions of Corporate Entrepreneurial Orientations in Physical Education Organization of Iran

Researchers in Sport Science Quarterly

مقاله 2، دوره 2، شماره 2، مرداد 2011، صفحه 8-17   

نویسندگان

A Farahani؛ T Mousavi rad

Department of Physical Education, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

چکیده

Corporate support for entrepreneurship is the most important element for the development of corporate entrepreneurship and is considered as one of the main corporate entrepreneurial antecedents. It involves trust in corporate staff and training them for promoting recognition of opportunities, exploring new and valuable resources, innovative productions and profit-making processes. Corporate support features such as rewarding, managing support and reducing the pressure of work can be regarded as the powerful tools for creating entrepreneurship in corporate. This research was conducted to provide a model based on the relation between corporate support and the dimensions of corporate entrepreneurial orientations in Physical Education Organization. The predictive variables of this study were corporate support components including management support, job discretion, rewarding system and work limitation and the criteria variables of the dimensions of corporate entrepreneurial orientations including innovation, risk-taking, autonomy, competitive aggressiveness and proactiveness in marketing. Besides the above mentioned variables, moderator variables of population features were also considered. Statistical samples of this research were 202 managers and staff of Physical Education Organization. Research instruments included two questionnaires of corporate entrepreneurial support and corporate entrepreneurial orientations. Cronbakh alpha was used for estimating internal dynamism and factor analysis applied for validity of tools. In order to analyze data results, the statistical methods of one group t test were used and finally the method of structural equivalence model benefiting from LISREL software was applied for providing suitable pattern and analyzing the path. The findings showed that Physical Education Organization was not entrepreneurship in relation with the studied entrepreneurial variables. There was a meaningful relation between three components of corporate support (management support, rewarding system and work limitation) and the criteria variables of the dimensions of entrepreneurial orientations at the level of Į0.05. There was also a positive and meaningful relation between predictive variables of corporate support and the criteria variables of the dimensions of entrepreneurial orientations at the level of F=803.65, Į=0.001.

کلیدواژه‌ها

corporate entrepreneurship؛ corporate support؛ corporate entrepreneurial orientation