چكيده لاتين
The purpose of this study was to determine the pricing indicators of professional players in the Iraq Football Premier League. The method of this research was combined and its design was of harmonization and exploratory type. In the first part of this research, the Grounded theory method of Glaser approach was used. The method of this research was applied in a quantitative part according to the purpose and based on the method of data collection of descriptive-survey type. The statistical population of this study consisted of qualitative experts. These individuals were purposefully selected and based on the theoretical saturation, the total number of experts participating in the qualitative part of this study was equal to 15 people. In a small part of the research, the statistical community of players and coaches present in the Iraqi Premier League. In order to estimate the sample size in a quantitative part, the method of determining the sample size for structural equation modeling was used. Taking into account the number of parameters obtained from the qualitative part of the research, which was equal to 47 cases, the sample size of 235 people was selected. In the qualitative section, in-depth interviews were used to collect data. A questionnaire measurement tool was used in a small part. The information of this questionnaire and its structure were in accordance with the findings of the qualitative section. The number of questions in this questionnaire was equal to 47 questions. In order to evaluate the quality and validation of qualitative results in the present study, Lincoln and Guba (1985) evaluation criteria including validity, transferability, reliability and verification criteria were used. In order to confirm the validity of the measurement tool in the quantitative part, the content validity method was used. Cronbachʹs alpha was also used to calculate the reliability coefficient of the measurement tool. In the qualitative part of the research, three overlapping processes of open coding, axial coding and selective coding were used to analyze the qualitative information. Finally, factor analysis test and Demitel method were used to analyze the quantitative data. These analyzes were performed with the help of SPSS software version 23, Smart PLS version 3 at 5% error level and macro Excel for Demetel analysis.Based on the results of selective coding, 4 main categories (player characteristics, club characteristics, internal and external factors) and 11 sub-categories (human capital, club efficiency, sports performance, time effects, geographical factors, characteristics) League, player behavior, social value, transfer rules, governance of conditions and financial factors) are influential in the pricing of football players. The validity of this finding was confirmed using confirmatory factor analysis. It was also found that human capital index has the most impact, club efficiency index has the most impact, human capital index has the least impact and human capital index has the most interaction with other studied criteria. Finally, human capital, financial and geographical factors played the role of causal variable and time effects, league characteristics, transfer rules, conditions, sporting performance, social value, club efficiency and player behavior.
