The condition of entrepreneurship process in Mazandaran sport organizations

Abstract

Nowadays entrepreneurship is necessary to create growth and a healthy economic environment in society and its role in economic stability has been proven. Entrepreneurship is the consecutive process of idea creation, opportunity discovery among the created ideas and idea exploitation. This research was done to investigate the entrepreneurship of sport organizations in Mazandaran province in 2013. The population included 462 people, among which 213 people were chosen by the Morgan table. 310 questionnaires were distributed randomly and 250 questionnaire were answered. The survey was applied in goal and descriptive in method. The tool for gathering information was Farhangi's questionnaire, the reliability of which was obtained through the Cronbachʾs alpha. After extracting the data, the statistical analysis was done by the software SPSS. The results showed that entrepreneurship is not in a desirable condition in Mazandaran sports organization. Considering the sports situation of the province and the tourism situation in the province, there are many opportunities which can contribute to the economic development of the province if they are fully paid attention to.