Situation analysis of books in the theoretical field of sports events management in both Persian and English languages

The purpose of this study was situation analysis of books in the theoretical field of sporting event management in both Persian and English.The research method was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of strategy and quantitative content analysis in terms of implementation path. The statistical population of the study included all sports event management books in both Persian and English, which were indexed in March 2016 on the "Khane Ketab" and "Google Scholar" sites. Therefore, 70 Persian books and 50 English books were recognized and reviewed in total. The unit of analysis in this study included the title of books, cover of titles, editing, year of publication, number of authors, position of authors and publishers. The data collection tool was a coding sheet and coding instructions. The face and content validity of this instrument was confirmed by Cochran's test of 0.92 with the help of the agreement coefficient of 10 experts. Also, its reliability or objectivity with the help of Scott's pi test and determining the agreement coefficient of 2 coders at the rate of 0.83. Confirmed. The results showed that in terms of title, subject matter, edition and number of authors, there is no difference between Persian and English books, but in terms of dimensions, number of titles, year of publication, scientific position of authors and status of publishers, there is a significant difference between Persian and English books.