Innovating Canadian sport policy: towards new public management and public entrepreneurship?

McSweeney, Mitchell; Safai, Parissa

doi:10.1080/19406940.2020.1775678

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“…For example, new public management and public entrepreneurship advocate for integrating successful private-sector approaches in the public sector to solve public affairs. This study consisted of two macro-scale theories to cause the numbers of included papers and theories to not be the same [42]. As a challenge to the gradual situations of Northern supremacy, Southern theory provides critical attention to how the Global North forms global knowledge and ignores global knowledge from other parts of the world.…”

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A Systematic Review of the Development of Sport Policy Research (2000–2020)

Ouyang

Lee

2022

Sustainability

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Since the 1990s, sport policy research has gradually attracted increasing academic attention as a reflection of contemporary society at a particular time. This study adopted four types of theory proposed by Houlihan (2014) to analyze the research development of sport policy. It conducted a systematic review and yielded 100 policy articles related to elite sports, physical education, and sport for all. The scope of the research data was identified from 2000 to 2020 with collation from 24 international Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) journals, which specialized in policy and sport–related studies of social science to look forward to a comprehensive report. The four major findings were as follows: first, this study pointed to evidence that nearly half the research on the topic aimed at meso–level analyses of organizations; second, it demonstrated governance theory, the Sports Policy Factors Leading to International Sporting Success (SPLISS) model, the advocacy coalition Framework (ACF), and network-related theories played a pivotal role in focusing on policy backgrounds and dynamic relationships within organizations; third, it identified some studies highlighted in the policy texts themselves, or discourse about them, and, thereby, were grouped into the fifth type; finally, the paper suggested that attention has been brought to policy formation and implementation rather than policy evaluation, which has made a contribution to the development of their own operating mechanisms.

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A Systematic Review of the Development of Sport Policy Research (2000–2020)

Ouyang

Lee

2022

Sustainability

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“…To this end, scholars have described and analysed ‘professionalisation’, broadly referring to the process through which sport has become more bureaucratic, standardised, formalised and commercialised (Dowling et al, 2014; Nagel et al, 2015). The changes from the ‘kitchen table’ to the ‘boardroom’ have been variously characterised in scholarly works as professionalisation (Nagel et al, 2015), modernisation (Houlihan and Green, 2006), managerialism (Grix, 2009) and NPM (Honta and Julhe, 2013; McSweeney and Safai, 2020). Each of these concepts has its own disciplinary origins and nuances but together, their meanings largely converge around the observation that making sport organisations more ‘business-like’ has become a key part of the sector's operating orthodoxy (Chantelat, 2001; Fahlén et al, 2015; Ruoranen et al, 2016; Stenling and Sam, 2019).…”

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Integrity governance: A new reform agenda for sport?

Sam

Stenling

Tak

2022

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Globally, “integrity” has emerged as a critical concept for sport, with scholars, government agencies and NGOs proposing the establishment of “integrity systems”, comprising measures such as new policy units, ombudsmen and mediation services. The purpose of this study is to assess the coherence of this reform agenda, to determine its core features and gauge whether it constitutes a new governing paradigm and departure from “professionalisation”. Drawing on case material from Australia and New Zealand, we trace the sport integrity agenda and its adoption into each country's government policies and programmes. The emerging agenda focuses on diverse risks at the periphery of “old” professionalised management, while demanding a sector-wide response and universal adherence. Coordination and regulation are emphasised (at national, state/regional and local levels), supported by central government policy frameworks and grievance detection regimes. While the integrity agenda has distinctive elements of a reform movement, preliminary evidence suggests it may become integrated under the existing logics of performance, audits and risk management. It nevertheless signals substantive changes to the conduct of sport organisations at multiple levels of the system.

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“…We know that sport is an international activity that benefits from collaboration, but we do not know how sport people utilize their diaspora contacts in business endeavors. Since sport entrepreneurs are increasingly global, their entrepreneurial linkages in times of crisis are of central importance (McSweeney & Safai, 2020). Thus, the research question for this study is: RQ1: How do diaspora ties foster international sport entrepreneurship? …”

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The role of the diaspora in international sport entrepreneurship

Ratten

2022

Thunderbird Intl Bus Rev

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Sport is one of the most international industries in the world and relies on entrepreneurship to ensure its competitiveness. Due to the COVID‐19 pandemic, the sport industry had to rapidly change and adjust to international border closures and reduced physical contact activity. Many people involved in the sport industry are located outside of their home country and form part of the diaspora network of sport professionals. The diaspora is highly active in the sport industry in terms of disseminating ideas and utilizing their social networks for international entrepreneurial purposes. The aim of this article is to examine the impact of the diaspora on international sport entrepreneurship thereby contributing a novel approach to the international entrepreneurship, sport entrepreneurship and diaspora entrepreneurship fields in a way that has not been contemplated before. A qualitative research methodology is employed to interview sport entrepreneurs about their diaspora and international entrepreneurship activities. This enables a holistic understanding about the role of international public/private partnerships for the success of innovative and futuristic entrepreneurial sport activity. A theoretical framework based on the interview data was developed that incorporated a three‐level process of international drivers, diaspora types and sport entrepreneurship outcomes. A number of research propositions were then derived from the data that highlight how the sport industry is highly international and relies on internationalization to foster new business activity. Policy and managerial implications about the role of diaspora for international sport entrepreneurship are highlighted together with future research suggestions.

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Innovating Canadian sport policy: towards new public management and public entrepreneurship?

Cited by 5 publications

References 66 publications

A Systematic Review of the Development of Sport Policy Research (2000–2020)

A Systematic Review of the Development of Sport Policy Research (2000–2020)

Integrity governance: A new reform agenda for sport?

The role of the diaspora in international sport entrepreneurship

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