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The Effect of Entrepreneurial Competencies on Innovation: A Case Study of Professional Sport Clubs

2016; Canadian Center of Science and Education; Volume: 9; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5539/ibr.v9n11p57

1913-9012

Reza Mohammadkazemi, Nazanin Rasekh, Mohammad Navid,

Business Strategy and Innovation

<p class="1main-text">The aim of the present research is to evaluate the effect of entrepreneurial competencies on innovation in professional sport clubs. In a regression analysis, this paper uses a descriptive correlational field method. The statistical sample population of this research includes the staff and employees from five selected sport clubs, namely: <em>Esteghlal</em>, <em>Perspolis</em>, <em>Naaft-e-Tehran</em>, <em>Sepahan</em> and <em>ZobAhan of Isfahan</em>. For data collection, a standard questionnaire with 65 items was used to evaluate eight competencies: strategic, conceptual, opportunity, relationship, learning, personal, ethical, familyism; and three dimensions of innovation in goods/services, the process and execution. The validity through the convergent validity (AVE=0.56 and 0.84 respectively) and the reliability (0.95 and α=0.93; 0.91 and CR=0.95 respectively) were confirmed and were randomly distributed among the statistical sample population. The Smart PLS 2 software and the structural equations modeling (SEM) techniques were used. The obtained results of this research indicate that the there is a positive and significant relationship between the entrepreneurial competencies and innovation (t=13/14 and T-value &gt;1/96). Moreover, there is a positive and significant relationship between all the variables of competencies (i.e. strategic, conceptual, opportunity, relationship, learning, personal, ethical, and familyism) and innovation. The 77% innovative change as fostered by entrepreneurial competencies is indicative of a strong impact of the entrepreneurial competencies on innovation &amp; performance of enterprises. Contribution of this paper is measuring these competencies on innovation of professional sport clubs.</p>