A Theoretical Framework for the Study of Complex Sport Organizations

1988 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geneviève Rail
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Strategic Analysis ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Phenomenological Method ◽  
Amateur Sport

This paper suggests the usefulness of a general theoretical framework based on the model of strategic analysis elaborated by Crazier and Friedberg (1977/1980). This sociological theory allows for the understanding of complex sport organizations by the study of strategies and power relationships within them. The theory is linked to a restricted phenomenological method that can be used to discover the material, structural, and human conditions that limit and define the rationality of organizational actors, and thereby the meaning of their observable behaviors. Theory and method are explicated, and the paper concludes with an empirical example of the use of strategic analysis for the study of amateur sport federations.

Urban Social Movements and the Production of Urban Space

1981 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Finquelievich
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Urban Social Movements

This article is a brief résumé of a three years' research work on urban social movements. A theoretical framework for the analysis of urban social movements is outlined and a methodology for their study is developed. The case of Barcelona is drawn on to illustrate the conclusions, and to demonstrate that urban movements can be social, e.g. that they can modify the power relationships between social classes. In the case of Barcelona these movements started when small groups of neighbours claimed better conditions in their urban environment and collective consumption, and have developed during the last fifteen years to become one of the most important social forces in the whole region of Catalonia, a force which cannot be ignored by the local authorities.

scholarly journals Erving Goffman, su perfil y su obra

2018 ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
María Jesús Funes
Keyword(s):  
Control Mechanism ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
Erving Goffman ◽  
Contemporary Sociology ◽  
Personal Experiences

Este artículo presenta una breve semblanza de Erving Goffman enla que se intercalan su biografía personal y académica con su formación y desarrollocomo teórico e investigador. Determinados acontecimientos y circunstanciasde su vida personal fueron relevantes en su selección de temas de estudio y en laatención prestada a los mismos por lo que se facilitan al lector los más relevantes.Parafraseando su propuesta de análisis dramatúrgico he titulado esta imbricaciónentre obra y personaje: El actor en el escenario, el escenario de su propia vida yel del contexto de la sociología de su época. La reflexión sobre su encaje en lateoría sociológica contemporánea desarrolla principalmente, aunque no solo, eldebate sobre su dimensión estructuralista y/o interaccionista simbólica. Pero lasaportaciones de este texto comparado con otras revisiones de su obra son dos: sucontribución al estudio de las emociones, fundamentalmente el miedo como mecanismode control social (la culpa como miedo/castigo interiorizado, la comunidadsupervisora de la vida cotidiana, las instituciones…) y, desde ahí, la proximidadal trabajo de Foucault, rechazando la habitual crítica que se hace a Goffmancomo indiferente a las relaciones de poder.This article presents a biographical and academic approach toGoffman as a man and as a researcher and creator of sociological theory. Takinginto account that several circumstances and personal experiences had a huge influenceon his decisions about issues to study and on the special attention put on themhere we show some of the most relevant events. Following the dramaturgic metaphor,I have titled this part: The actor on the stage, the stage is his own life, thestage is the academic environment he lived in. The work about his position in thetheoretical develop of contemporary sociology focuses mainly, but not only in hissymbolic-interactionism even structuralism. However, the two relevant points ofthis work comparing with others review of his contribution are: the place gave tothe analysis of emotions, mainly the study of the effects of fear in social live associal control mechanism (as inner guilty; community into every step of everydaylive; institutions…); and second and from this point, the closeness to Foucaultwork, denying the frequent accusation of Goffman´s indifference to power relationships.

Cohesion in Volunteer Sport Executive Committees

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison J. Doherty ◽  
Albert V. Carron
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Gender Composition ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Intent To Quit ◽  
Amateur Sport ◽  
Task Cohesion ◽  
Volunteer Effort

Understanding the experiences of volunteers in amateur sport organizations is critical to their effective management of these nonprofit organizations. The purpose of this study was to explore cohesion in volunteer sport executive committees. Members (n = 117) of sport executive committees or boards completed a questionnaire that assessed perceptions of cohesion, individual satisfaction, effort, intent to quit, committee effectiveness, and a variety of individual (gender, committee, role, tenure) and organizational (committee, size, gender composition, frequency and length of meetings) variables. Task cohesion was found to be stronger than social cohesion. Only committee size was found to be associated with perceptions of cohesiveness; members of smaller committees perceived less social cohesion than members of medium and larger committees. Task and social cohesion predicted volunteer satisfaction and perceived committee effectiveness, while volunteer effort and intent to remain with the committee were predicted by task cohesion. The results are discussed in terms of their implication for theory and practice.

scholarly journals Context Receptivity: Innovation in an Amateur Sport Organization

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arran Caza
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Change Behavior ◽  
Amateur Sport ◽  
Amateur Boxing ◽  
Sport Organization ◽  
Process Oriented

The Amateur Boxing Association (ABA) is a Canadian provincial sport organization. Recently, the ABA has attempted many innovations in response to strong pressure for change. The success of these attempts has been mixed. This study uses Pettigrew, Ferlie and McKee's (1992) metaphor of context receptivity to explain this outcome variability. Context receptivity is a process-oriented perspective on organizational change behavior. This research is a qualitative, ethnographic case study focussing on two particular ABA innovations. One innovation failed; the other succeeded. These results are consistent with the expectations of context receptivity, which is a useful framework for understanding change outcomes in sport organizations.

Personal Style and Administrative Behavior in Amateur Sport Organizations

1988 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon A. Olafson ◽  
Dennis W. Hastings
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Predictive Accuracy ◽  
Leadership Behavior ◽  
Executive Directors ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Personal Style ◽  
Administrative Behavior ◽  
Amateur Sport ◽  
Behavior Description ◽  
Sport And Recreation

This paper examines the effect of personal style on the administrative behavior of executive directors of sports governing bodies. Seventy-two executive directors from the National Sport and Recreation Centre in Ottawa and the Ontario Sport Administrative Centre in Toronto completed surveys designed to describe personal style (Personal Style Inventory) and administrative behavior (Leadership Behavior Description Questionnaire). Statistical analysis revealed significant differences in behavior based on personal style. The best model of prediction included the behavioral variables of representation, reconciliation, structure, tolerance of freedom, consideration, and predictive accuracy. The results of this study support the hypothesis put forward by Kilmann and Herden (1976) that a person’s behavior in a decision-making role may be a reflection of personal style. These findings suggest that it may be important to understand the contribution of personal style to the decision-making process. Further, this may be a helpful exercise in understanding administrators in many organizations and, particularly as it pertains to this study, in volunteer sport organizations.

Roles of the Board in Amateur Sport Organizations

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Inglis
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Executive Directors ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Amateur Sport ◽  
Board Roles ◽  
And Performance

Limited empirical data on the roles associated with boards of directors in nonprofit organizations are available, yet understanding the work of boards is vital to ensure the roles desired by organizational members and the roles required by the organization are being fulfilled. The roles or functions of boards in nonprofit organizations, as found in the management literature, were used to explore the roles associated with a sample of nonprofit amateur sport organizations. Data were generated from a survey of executive directors, volunteer presidents, and volunteer board members of sport organizations housed at Ontario's Provincial Sport Centre in Toronto. The survey data yielded a 4-factor subscale providing support for a theoretical perspective in assessing roles of the board in mission, planning, executive director, and community relations areas. Similarities and differences of respondents by gender and position on ratings of importance and performance for the board roles were explored with implications for board development discussed.

scholarly journals The disengagement process among young athletes when withdrawing from sport: A new research approach

2020 ◽  
pp. 101269021989961
Author(s):  
Inger Eliasson ◽  
Annika Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Young Athlete ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Young Athletes ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Research

The reasons young athletes drop out of sport have eluded scientists and sport organizations for many decades. Despite a large body of research on the subject, unanswered questions remain. This article reports on a new research approach that analyses sport withdrawal as a process. The study draws on Ebaugh’s sociological theory of disengagement and is based on data from semi-structured interviews with 12 girls aged 12 to 17 and 12 of their parents. By studying withdrawal from sport as a process, we found that the reasons comprise a combination of several salient interplaying factors related to changes. Organizational changes in sport and changes in the young athletes’ overall lives, together with changes in normative cultural and individual expectations associated with the young athlete role, are decisive for these girls to withdraw from sport. Furthermore, the disengagement process may be fairly long and emotional for young athletes, and less reversible the further into the process they progress.

ATIVIDADE LABORAL EM DISCURSO: TENSÕES E GESTÃO DOS USOS DE SI EM JORNAIS DA EMPRESA HERA LABOR ACTIVITY IN SPEECH: TENSIONS AND USES OF ONESELF AT THE COMPANY HERA’S MAGAZINE

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gislene Feiten Haubrich ◽  
Hernani César de FREITAS
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Work Activity ◽  
Discursive Analysis

Resumo: O estudo visa compreender como as tensões da gestão dos usos de si, na atividade laboral, são evidenciadas no ato de linguagem da empresa Hera. Trata-se de um estudo de caso, com abordagem qualitativa ancorada na análise teórico-ergo-discursiva. O corpus é composto por editoriais do jornal da empresa, publicados no período de janeiro/2012 a junho/2014. A análise é sustentada pela proposta semiolinguística de Charaudeau (2010) e o marco teórico decorre das noções de atividade laboral (SCHWARTZ; DURRIVE, 2007) e relações de poder (FOUCAULT, 2007; GALBRAITH, 1989). Como resultado principal pode-se apontar que o discurso da Hera seja normalizador, na intenção de restringir espaços do dizer e produzir efeitos de “verdade”, além de outorgar aos trabalhadores a vigilância uns dos outros, aspectos que tendem a estimular a competitividade.Palavras-chave: Trabalho. Discursos. Poder. Jornal de empresa. Abstract: The study aims to understand how the tensions of management of the uses of oneself, in labor activity, are highlighted in the discourse of Hera’s company. This is a case study with a qualitative approach and is anchored at theoretical-ergo-discursive analysis. The corpus consists of editorials of the company's magazine, published between January/2012 to June/2014. The analysis is supported by semiolinguistics proposed by Charaudeau (2010) and the theoretical framework stems from the work activity notions (SCHWARTZ; DURRIVE, 2007) and power relationships (FOUCAULT, 2007; GALBRAITH, 1989). The main result points out that the speech of Hera is normalizing, with the intention of restrict conversation spaces and wants produce effects of "truth", beyond to grant for workers mutual surveillance, aspects that tend to encourage competitiveness.Keywords: Work. Discourses. Power. Enterprise’s magazine.

‘It Is Often a Shot in the Dark’

LOGOS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-47
Author(s):  
Elza Ungure ◽  
Lı¯ga Gu¯tmane
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Book Publishing ◽  
Social World ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Book ◽  
Political Economic

In this article the authors analyse narratives of the ‘agents’ associated with book publishing in Latvia, instrumentalizing the Bourdieusian theoretical framework of habitus–capital–field in order to understand the particulars of power relationships in the national book publishing field. Based on the results of the narrative analysis, authors conclude that power relationships in book publishing in Latvia have historically shifted during periods when major social transformations have taken place in other fields of the social world (e.g. political, economic) and echoed in the publishing field in the form of altered conditions. Depending on each agent’s position in the field, these changes have meant that values and meanings linked with the practice of publishing have either had to be adjusted or been significantly disruptive.

Does Decision Making Make a Difference? Patterns of Change Within Canadian National Sport Organizations

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa M. Kikulis ◽  
Trevor Slack ◽  
Bob Hinings
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Design ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
The Core ◽  
Amateur Sport ◽  
Tightly Coupled ◽  
Dominant Paradigm

The theoretical rationale underpinning this study was that decision making structures are tightly coupled to the core values of organizations and thus have a high impact on organizational design change. Taking a fine-grained approach to the analysis of decision making, the purpose of this study was to determine whether amateur sport organizations have shifted away from the dominant paradigm of volunteer-led decision making in favor of professional staff authority and autonomy over strategic decisions. Data from a population of 36 Canadian national sport organizations were used to show that changes in decision making have occurred. However, the shift in control from volunteers to professionals has not been established. In addition, change in decision making varied according to the direction of change, the decision making dimension, and the decision topic.

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