Sport Management Journal

The Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Marketing in the Relationship between Intellectual Capital and Performance of Sports Enterprises

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Amir Rahimi 1
Ebrahim Alidoust Ghahfarokhi 2
Ahmad Rajabi 3
Mohamad Reza Miri 3

1 Department of Sport Management, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Sport Management, Faculty of Sport Sciences and Health, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

3 Department of Sport Management, Faculty of Sport Sciences and Health, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jsm.2020.294706.2383
Abstract
Introduction: Today, by changing the sources of value creation and focusing on intangible resources rather than physical resources, intellectual capital can be used as an indicator to assess the impact of marketing on the performance of businesses, including sports enterprises. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the moderating role of entrepreneurial marketing in the relationship between intellectual capital and performance of sports enterprises.
Methods: The statistical population of this study, which was conducted by a descriptive-survey method, consisted of active sports enterprises entrepreneurs in Big Khorasan Province (Razavi, Jonobi & Shomali). Due to the limited population, the statistical sample was considered as a whole (n=150). The data collection tool was a questionnaire consisting of 49 specialized questions on the five-point Likert scale with acceptable validity and reliability. Structural Equation Modeling approach and Partial Least Squares method were used to test the general model fitting of the research.
Results: The results showed that not only entrepreneurial marketing has a moderating role on the relationship between intellectual capital and sport enterprises performance, but also moderates the impact of intellectual capital components (human capital, structural capital and relational capital) on sport enterprises performance.
Conclusion: As a result, one of the most important tasks for managers and entrepreneurs to succeed and improve the financial and non-financial performance of the sports enterprises is to shape and guide entrepreneurial behavior in marketing and management practices.

Keywords

Enterprise
Entrepreneurial Marketing
Intellectual Capital
Performance
Sport
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Sport Management Journal
Volume 15, Issue 1
Spring 2023
Pages 51-36

  • Receive Date 25 December 2019
  • Revise Date 31 May 2020
  • Accept Date 17 May 2020

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