Agency in institutionalized sport organizations: examining how institutions suppress agency

Oja, Brent D.; Nite, Calvin; Kim, Minjung; Hill, Jasamine

doi:10.1080/16184742.2023.2250370

European Sport Management Quarterly

2023

DOI: 10.1080/16184742.2023.2250370

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Agency in institutionalized sport organizations: examining how institutions suppress agency

Brent D. Oja,

Calvin Nite,

Minjung Kim

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Exploring Sport Employees’ Conceptualizations of Meaningful Work

Baer,

Zvosec,

Oja

2025

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Modern sport management scholars have paired the fields of positive organizational behavior and human resource development with sport management to enhance the productivity of sport organizations through their employees. One area of study receiving increased attention is meaningful work, an emerging employee well-being metric whose definition is debated. The purpose of this study was to explore the ways in which sport employees conceptualize meaningful work. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 32 sport employees. The following themes were identified: meaningful work is work that serves, meaning gained from sport organizations, and individual meaningful work experiences. Discussion offers valuable implications for practitioners of sport management, as well as the emerging scholarly field of human resource development in sport management, and the evolving discourse surrounding meaningful work.

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Exploring Sport Employees’ Conceptualizations of Meaningful Work

Baer,

Zvosec,

Oja

2025

Journal of Sport Management

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“Seven Weeks Is Not a Lot of Time”: Temporal Work and Institutional Change in Australian Football

McLeod,

Zeimers,

Robertson

et al. 2024

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Recognizing the importance of timing in efforts to drive institutional change, this study examined how actors engage in “temporal institutional work” in their attempts to disrupt inequitable institutions in sport. A qualitative case study was conducted on football (soccer) in Australia wherein significant gender equity reforms have been enacted. The findings revealed how the temporal activities of entraining (e.g., capitalizing on external interventions), constructing urgency (e.g., through advocacy), and enacting momentum (e.g., through consensus-based leadership) allowed actors to exploit a time-sensitive window of opportunity for change, quickly foster a perception of irreversibility that structural change would occur, and generate synchronicity with broader reforms. Inspired by the breakthroughs in Australian football, this research highlights temporal-based strategies for combating gender inequity in sport. Theoretically, this study extends research on institutional work in sport by illuminating the key role that timing norms play during institutional change.

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Agency in institutionalized sport organizations: examining how institutions suppress agency

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Exploring Sport Employees’ Conceptualizations of Meaningful Work

Exploring Sport Employees’ Conceptualizations of Meaningful Work

“Seven Weeks Is Not a Lot of Time”: Temporal Work and Institutional Change in Australian Football

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