Abstract
Introduction: The aim of the present study is to investigate the barriers to investment and participation of the private sector in sports in Baghdad.
Research method: The research method is quantitative and practical in terms of purpose. The statistical population of the research includes the elites of sports and sports services in Iraq. Since a complete list of the statistical population was not available, the sampling method was purposeful and Cochran's unknown population formula was used to determine the sample size (N=325). The instrument of this research was the questionnaire of barriers to investment and participation of the private sector in sports by Khosravizadeh et al. (2013). The face and content validity of this tool was confirmed by 11 sports management professors and the reliability of the tool was obtained through Cronbach's alpha coefficient (α=0.92). To analyze the data at the level of descriptive statistics to determine the frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation and at the level of inferential statistics, from confirmatory factor analysis, skewness and kurtosis, one-sample t-test and Friedman at a significance level of P≥0.05 (two-tailed) used.
The results of the research: The results of the research showed that the priority of the components of information and capital market, legal and legal, cultural and social, managerial, supportive and encouraging, political and economic, are obstacles to investment and participation of the private sector in the sports of Baghdad.
Conclusion: In order to improve the investment situation in the field of sports, it is suggested that the authorities and different sections of the society should act in order to create suitable and effective solutions. These measures can include reducing the interest rate of facilities for privatization, creating joint working groups to create favorable conditions for investment, changes in some laws by submitting to the relevant institutions in order to create favorable conditions for investment, and supporting the actions of officials to create the necessary guarantees for investment.