A Critical Review of Sports Management Research Based on Grounded Theory

A Critical Review of Sports Management Research Based on Grounded Theory.In the last decade, Iranian researchers in the field of sports management have the specific widely used the grounded theory in their research. Given features of this methodology; The main issue of the present study is what are the strengths and weaknesses of sports management research based on the grounded theory?To answer the research question , meta-method and systematic review technique were used. The studied populations include a collection of articles in various international scientific journals research has been published. that due to the focus of the research on critical methodology of grounded theory based on the approach of Strauss and Corbin Articles were selected and reviewed. The results of the research indicate that the researches face with fundamental problems about thecriteria of “problem, the formulation of micro questions, the studied population, the explanation of the stages of data analysis in the findings select, the coincidence of data collection and analysis, category building technique, category dimensional recognition technique, named selection technique, core category selection technique, credibility, comparison with other theories and theoretical sensitivity”. These problems can be categorized into five categories of technical challenges, the theory and method gap, the distortion of the goal, the lack of knowledge of grounded theory and the paradigmatic challenge..(These problems can be categorized into five categories of technical challenges, the theory and method gap, the distortion of the goal, the lack of knowledge of grounded theory and the paradigmatic challenge..)

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grounded theory. meta-method ، Systematic review