Institutional Pressures and Isomorphic Change: An Empirical Test

Slack, Trevor; Hinings, Bob

doi:10.1177/017084069401500602

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“…When NOCs copy the practices of other, successful NOCs, mimetic forces are in play (Amis, Slack, & Hinings, 2002). Similarly, when national sport organizations in Canada accepted the government's guidelines on how their respective organizations should be run in return for financial assistance, they succumbed to coercive forces (Slack & Hinings, 1994;Slack & Thibault, 1988). Finally, normative forces stem from the professional standards in managing and running an organization and sources of such normative sources are largely education, training, and certification of managers and administrators (Macintosh & Beamish, 1987;Slack & Thibault, 1988).…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: Institutional Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

For ‘Love’ and Money: A Sports Club’s Innovative Response to Multiple Logics

Skirstad

Chelladurai

2011

Journal of Sport Management

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This article builds on prior theory and research on institutional logics and shows how a multisports club changes during its organizational life from an all amateur or voluntary logic to embody multiple logics simultaneously with different subunits being aligned with different organizational fields. The emergence of the professional logic for elite soccer in the presence of a volunteer logic caused a change in the structure of the club whereby all the units in the club became economically and legally autonomous. Soccer was divisionalized into soccer for everybody and soccer for the elite. The creation of a shareholding company and the use of an investment company which introduced the commercial logic were the next steps. This paper extends the literature by suggesting that different and opposing institutional logics such as the amateur, the professional, and commercial logics can coexist within a multisports club or, to put it another way, that the multisports club may belong to several organizational fields.

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Section: Theoretical Framework: Institutional Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

For ‘Love’ and Money: A Sports Club’s Innovative Response to Multiple Logics

Skirstad

Chelladurai

2011

Journal of Sport Management

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“…The continuous pursuit of international sporting success is an increasingly taken-forgranted behavior within many developed countries (Digel, 2002;De Bosscher et al, 2006, 2008Green & Houlihan, 2005;Houlihan & Green, 2008;Kikulis, Slack, & Hinings, 1992;Slack & Hinings, 1994). Academics have labelled this phenomenon the "global sporting arms race" (De Bosscher et al, 2006), which has resulted in nation states investing substantial sums of funding for success at the Olympic and increasingly the Paralympic Games (Beacom & Brittain, 2016;De Bosscher et al, 2006, 2008Green & Houlihan, 2005;Green & Oakley, 2001;Grix & Carmichael, 2012).…”

Section: The Global Sporting Arms Racementioning

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Living with imperfect comparisons: The challenges and limitations of comparative paralympic sport policy research

Dowling

Brown

Legg

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Sport Management Review

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“…This body of literature took off with the work of Slack and others (e.g. Slack, 1985;Slack & Thibault, 1988;Slack & Hinings, 1994). In their research on Canadian sport organizations they highlight the influence of external developments, especially changes in government funding as regulative pressures, on internal organizational arrangements.…”

Section: An Institutional Logics Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Which wider social roles? An analysis of social roles ascribed to voluntary sports clubs

Waardenburg

2016

European Journal for Sport and Society

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It has long been established that voluntary sports clubs (VSCs) are ascribed a prominent social role by governments. Several scholars highlight the ascribed social values in sport policy to voluntary sports clubs and their possible implications for these voluntary organizations. Most of these studies focus on national sport policies. However, several studies signal a dominant role for local government in the public funding of sport. This discrepancy between local funding responsibility and scholarly attention to national sport policy legitimizes the following question: Which social roles do local governments ascribe to voluntary sports clubs? Further, the particularities of the social values of voluntary sports clubs have received only sparse attention. Using institutional theory as a theoretical lens, this paper addresses these lacunae through a systematic document analysis of the municipal sport policies of the twenty largest Dutch municipalities. These municipalities address four different social roles for voluntary sports clubs: (1) sports clubs as social infrastructure operators, (2) sports clubs as educational institutes, (3) sports clubs as service providers, and (4) sports clubs as project implementers. The article further elaborates on these four social roles and argues that these form a normative institutional framework for VSCs.

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Institutional Pressures and Isomorphic Change: An Empirical Test

Cited by 216 publications

References 26 publications

For ‘Love’ and Money: A Sports Club’s Innovative Response to Multiple Logics

For ‘Love’ and Money: A Sports Club’s Innovative Response to Multiple Logics

Living with imperfect comparisons: The challenges and limitations of comparative paralympic sport policy research

Which wider social roles? An analysis of social roles ascribed to voluntary sports clubs

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