Identify the Factors affecting the Use of Whistling in Sport

Today, against with sports corruption is emphasized in various ways, and one of these ways is whistling. The aim of this study was to identify the factors affecting whistling in sports.

This research was qualitative research and done Grand Theory method. Participants of this research were 12 experts and tools of this were semi-structured interview that selected theoretical sampling. Also, the findings were analyzed through coding method in three stages: open, axial and selective, and a set of basic themes was collected during the open coding process and categories were extracted from them. Then, in the axial and selective coding stage, the link between these categories was determined under the necessary headings of contexts and strategies.

The results showed that two categories of requirements of whistling were include fairness and organizing. Also results showed that three categories of culture, governance and social from the context of whistling and three categories of transparency, development of education and culture building were identified as whistling strategies.

It seems that according to the requirements and contexts of whistling in sports, two long-term and short-term strategies can be proposed and all strategies with a focus on developing the fight against corruption in all areas parallel to sports can lead to synergy.