Research on Driving Factors of Implicit Human Capital for Elite Retired Athlete Based on Grounded Theory

The implicit human capital of elite retired athletes plays an important role in the process of retirement transformation and re-employment, which has an important influence on the sustainable development of our competitive sports industry. For this reason, this paper employs two researching methods of materialization which are case study and grounded theory and picks two representative elite retired athletes' successful transition, including Deng Yaping and Huang Yanlan. The key driving factors in the process of elite retired athletes' implicit human capital are self-perception, role transition, athletic characteristic, motivation, and social capital, opportunity, learning ability, innovation and competency.