A Grounded Theoretical Analysis of Organizational Resilience in Iranian Sports Organizations

In today's complex, changing and dynamic environment, the need to maintain survival and sustainable success has led many organizations to reconsider their business priorities and focus on adapting to business changes and responding appropriately to environmental requirements. In order to achieve this, the new concept called organizational resilience has entered the science of management, which is one of the important scientific topics in crisis management.The aim of this study was to develop a conceptual model of organizational resilience in Iranian sports organizations. The present study was carried out based on a qualitative method with Grounded Theory method with the approach of Strauss and Corbin. The statistical population of the study included academic sport experts, senior and middle managers of sports organizations, executive managers and experts of sports organizations with more than 20 years of experience. A total of 20 people participated in the interview process, selected through purposeful sampling. Data analysis was performed using Maxqda.12 software in three stages of open coding, axial coding and selective coding, and the qualitative research model was designed. The results indicated 322 codes/initial concepts and a total of 34 concepts together with 12 categories, which in the form of paradigm model include organizational resilience as a central category, Causal conditions (Planning and implementation, political causes, legal causes), contextual factors (economic causes, management system), intervention conditions (social attitude, cultural causes), strategies (financial actions, comprehensive approach) and consequences (reduction of financial losses, national and international successes, Socio-cultural benefits) were included.