“…Correspondingly, the framework has found widespread application in sport management research. Sport management scholars have applied the theory to a swathe of organizational settings and contexts, most notably to instances of organizational and institutional change in governing bodies of amateur sports (Amis, Slack, & Hinings, 2002Hinings, Thibault, Slack, & Kikulis, 1996;Kikulis, 2000;Slack & Hinings, 1992;Stevens, 2006;Stevens & Slack, 1998), professional leagues and franchises (Cousens, 1997;Cousens & Slack, 2005;Lamertz, Carney, Bastien, 2008;O'Brien & Slack, 1999, grassroots sport clubs (Skille, 2011;Skirstad & Chelladurai, 2011;Stenling, 2013;, and intercollegiate athletics departments (Welty Peachey & Bruening, 2011, 2012. Although sport management scholars have amassed an impressive body of research using institutional theory (Washington & Patterson, 2011), several areas of potential expansion remain, particularly in respect to institutional work, which has only recently begun to make its way into the canon of sport-related institutional theory studies (Edwards & Washington, 2015).…”