Negar Salehi Mobarakeh; Soheila Zarinjoy alvar
Volume 2, Issue 4 , March 2025
Abstract
The main objective of the present study was to identify the factors affecting the smuggling of sports goods in the country. This study is a qualitative research that was conducted using ...
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The main objective of the present study was to identify the factors affecting the smuggling of sports goods in the country. This study is a qualitative research that was conducted using the Delphi-Fuzzy approach. The statistical sample of the study consisted of 20 industry experts, including officials and high-level people in the administrative structure who are somehow related to smuggling of goods, and academic experts, including professors of sports management and economics, who were selected purposefully. The initial components of the study were identified by studying theoretical foundations and previous research and were provided to the panel of experts in the form of a questionnaire with a five-point Likert scale in three rounds. The analysis of the research data was examined using the Delphi-Fuzzy method and the final factors identified were divided into five categories: economic factors (7 components), cultural-social (6 components), political-managerial (10 components), marketing (10 components), and environmental-geographic factors (2 components). Based on the research findings, the most important factors affecting the smuggling of sporting goods were the high customs tariff, taxes and duties in the economic factors, the unemployment and deprivation of border areas in the cultural-social factors, the inappropriate administrative system of customs and taxes and problems in the goods clearance process in the managerial-political factors, the lack of up-to-date technology used in domestic production in the marketing factors, and the wide geographical borders in the environmental factors. In general, it can be said that smuggling of goods is a multidimensional phenomenon that is affected by various factors, so all factors must be considered to combat it.
