Government involvement in high performance sport: an Australian national sporting organisation perspective

Gowthorp, Lisa; Toohey, Kristine; Skinner, James

doi:10.1080/19406940.2016.1220404

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“…Not reaching performance targets is often equated to "falling off a cliff" (McGrail, 2018, p. 16). Some researchers (Gowthorp et al, 2016) argue that British NGBs are bound to the traditions or conventions of UK Sport and Sport England as paymasters. The influence of this relationship might be that NGBs prioritise a narrow set of targets and are less likely to learn from mistakes in following their paymasters (Sam & Macris, 2014).…”

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The Gradual Normalization of Behaviors Which Might Challenge Ethical and Professional Standards in Two British Elite Sports Organizations

Feddersen

Phelan

2022

Journal of Sport Management

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We examined how two elite British sports organizations began accepting behaviors that might challenge ethical and professional standards. The data for the current paper came from two separate ethnographic studies. We used Alvesson and Einola’s Functional Stupidity to analyze the data for processes of a lack of reflexivity, lack of justification, and a lack of substantial reasoning presented in three vignettes for each case organization. We then carried out a cross-case analysis and showed that periods of significant change are high risk for the spread of unethical and unprofessional behaviors. The common rationales for accepting such behaviors were (a) you have not spent time in the trenches, (b) it has always been like this, (c) policing space, (d) I am just doing my job, and (e) giving opportunities to those close to me. Our findings suggest a sense of banality to wrongdoing where normal people slipped into ethical problem areas.

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Section: Normalisation Of Unethical Behaviours 30mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Gradual Normalization of Behaviors Which Might Challenge Ethical and Professional Standards in Two British Elite Sports Organizations

Feddersen

Phelan

2022

Journal of Sport Management

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“…Organizations at each level have their own interests and stakeholders to which they are accountable . Concomitantly, an organization may engage with government programs and, therefore, need to meet their requirements as well (Gowthorp, Toohey & Skinner, 2017;. Hence, sport organizations are responsive to internal and external interests and operate within political economies at their individual levels.…”

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“…Government funding operates on cycles, providing sports organizations with an opportunity approximately every 3 or 4 years to present their cases for funding, effectively competing with their counterparts from other sports for a share of a finite pool of funding (Gowthorp et al, 2017). Due to the competitive nature of the funding processes and government desires to achieve non-sport outcomes through investment in sport, sport organizations often respond to government objectives rather than setting their own independent strategic agendas for development (Gowthorp et al, 2017); otherwise, they may not receive their share of the limited existing resources.…”

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The Political Economy of Mass Sport Participation Legacies From Large-Scale Sport Events: A Conceptual Paper

Thomson

Toohey

Darcy

2021

Journal of Sport Management

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Sport event studies have demonstrated that relevant stakeholders must share objectives and coordinate efforts to leverage a large-scale sport event to secure positive legacies. However, the challenging and complex task of collaboration between networks of diverse organizational stakeholders to secure legacies has received little scholarly attention. In this conceptual paper, the authors explore, through a political economy lens, differences between the political economies of sports and sport events pertaining to mass sport participation legacies. The authors focus on the mesolevel and consider how divergences in political economy elements—structure and context, stakeholders and ideas/incentives, and bargaining processes—influence the likelihood of mass sport participation legacies from large-scale sport events. The authors suggest a need for event legacy stakeholders to engage more meaningfully with the complexities surrounding securing mass sport participation legacies. In addition, they provide pragmatic, actionable implications for policy and practice to assist stakeholders in addressing the challenges they face to maximize legacy outcomes.

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“…Sotiriadou, Gowthorp, & De Bosscher, 2014), sport development (Smolianov, Murphy, McMahon, & Naylor, 2015), gender (e.g. De Haan, Sotiriadou, & Henry, 2016;Greenhill, Auld, Cuskelly, & Hooper, 2009) and agency theory (Gowthorp, Toohey, & Skinner, 2017).…”

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Managing high-performance sport: introduction to past, present and future considerations

Sotiriadou

Bosscher

2017

European Sport Management Quarterly

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Government involvement in high performance sport: an Australian national sporting organisation perspective

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the Australian Federal

Cited by 12 publications

References 39 publications

The Gradual Normalization of Behaviors Which Might Challenge Ethical and Professional Standards in Two British Elite Sports Organizations

The Gradual Normalization of Behaviors Which Might Challenge Ethical and Professional Standards in Two British Elite Sports Organizations

The Political Economy of Mass Sport Participation Legacies From Large-Scale Sport Events: A Conceptual Paper

Managing high-performance sport: introduction to past, present and future considerations

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