摘要：The main purpose of this study was to compare the views of sports experts and Participants in the sportssector toward barriers on employment and entrepreneurship in sport. This study is an applied researchadopting a descriptive-correlational method and survey design. The population in this study consisted all ofsports experts and Participants in the sports sector in the Golestan province. 100 samples were chosenrandomly based on Morgan table. Barriers in entrepreneurship Yadollahi Questionnaire-Revised (2011) wasused to collect data. The data were analyzed and interpreted using t test, and Pearson correlation tests.Results showed that impact of behavioral barriers on employment and entrepreneurship in sport is lowerthan the average level and the impact of structural barriers and environmental barriers on employment andentrepreneurship in sport is more than the average level. There was a significant difference between theviews of sports experts and Participants in the sports sector toward behavioral and environmental barriers onemployment and entrepreneurship in sport. Of all the demographic characteristics of subjects, there was asignificant relationship between education and their attitude about environmental and behavioralemployment and entrepreneurship barriers in sport.
