scholarly journals Organizational Mission and Revenue Diversification among Non-profit Sports Clubs

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 119-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Wicker ◽  
Svenja Feiler ◽  
Christoph Breuer
Keyword(s):  
Revenue Diversification ◽  
Organizational Mission ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Sports Clubs

scholarly journals Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sports Entrepreneurship

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8493
Author(s):  
Paloma Escamilla-Fajardo ◽  
Juan M. Núñez-Pomar ◽  
Ferran Calabuig-Moreno ◽  
Ana M. Gómez-Tafalla
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Paired Sample ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Linear Regressions ◽  
Crisis Situations

Sports entrepreneurship has been considered an important part of sports organisations when overcoming crisis situations. The aim of this study is to determine the impact of the crisis derived from COVID-19 on sports entrepreneurship and whether there are differences in the prediction of entrepreneurship on service quality in non-profit sports clubs. To this end, 145 sports clubs were analysed before and after the outbreak of the virus in society. Paired sample-t tests were carried out to determine the differences in variables studied before (Time I) and after (Time II) the COVID-19 outbreak, and correlations and hierarchical linear regressions were used to analyse the relationship between the variables studied in the two different stages. The results obtained show that risk-taking and innovation are significantly higher after the appearance of COVID-19, while proactivity has not undergone significant changes. Finally, the relationship between sports entrepreneurship and service quality is positive and significant in both stages but stronger before the crisis.

Does the organizational climate predict the innovation in sports clubs?

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-121
Author(s):  
Paloma Escamilla-Fajardo ◽  
Juan Núñez-Pomar ◽  
David Parra-Camacho
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
National Level ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
New Information ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of organizational climate (OC) (with its different dimensions) and type of category (international–national or regional–local) on innovation, also taking into account the level of competition in which the club participates. This paper also aims to analyze the effect of the type of category on the relationship between OC and innovation. This could provide new information in the sports sector and in the organizational area. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative research was chosen with a sample of 485 Spanish sports clubs. The statistical analyses carried out were descriptive, mean difference, correlations between studied variables and hierarchical regression models, with the statistical package SPSS 23.0 and the macro PROCESS. Findings The results showed that there are significant differences in innovation depending on the level of competition. There is a positive correlation between the dimensions of OC (training, formation, supervision, resources, safety and overall) and innovation. The OC dimensions that have the highest prediction of innovation in sports clubs are training and motivation, in sports clubs with regional–local and international–national level of competition. Practical implications This paper provides information on the aspects that most influence innovation so that one can focus and pay more attention to some aspects over others. Originality/value This study contributes to the debate by offering a relationship of CB with innovation in the non-profit or associative sports sector. This provides organizational and entrepreneurial information to the sports environment.

scholarly journals Revenue diversification in public higher learning institutions: an exploratory Malaysian study

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-397
Author(s):  
Nik Nazli Nik Ahmad ◽  
Siti Alawiah Siraj ◽  
Suhaiza Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Higher Learning ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Revenue Diversification ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Senior Officers ◽  
Learning Institutions ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Perception Survey

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent of revenue diversification of selected Malaysian public higher learning institutions (HLIs) and the perceptions of senior officers of Malaysian public HLIs on matters related to revenue diversification. Design/methodology/approach The study analyses data from the HLIs’ financial statements to compute the Hirschman-Herfindahl Index (HHI) for revenue diversification and a perception survey with senior officers of the Malaysian public HLIs. Findings The results suggest that while a majority of the Malaysian public HLIs were still dependent largely on government funding, the more established and larger HLIs had a slightly more diversified revenue structure. The survey suggested that overall the senior officers were receptive to the need for revenue diversification. Research limitations/implications The paper is largely based on a perception survey. Future work should utilise in-depth interviews and/or focus groups and a more in-depth analysis of financial statement data to provide richer data. Practical implications The study’s findings provide useful baseline data upon which further work may be built, particularly in the less explored developing country context. They will also prove useful to the administrators of public HLIs in other parts of the world facing a similar financial austerity situation. Originality/value The present study examines both the extent of revenue diversification of HLIs as well as senior HLI officers’ perceptions on revenue diversification strategies. Most prior studies on revenue diversification have examined non-profit organisations, not HLIs and most were either only perception-based studies or only looked at the extent of revenue diversification using the HHI.

Putting Anthropological Skills to Use in Engagement with Grassroots Community Organizations1

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-25
Author(s):  
Tim Sieber
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Effectiveness ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Grant Writing ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Organizational Mission ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Brazilian Immigrants ◽  
Coalitions And Alliances

Academic anthropologists have many valuable skills to offer community-based non-profit organizations. Conceptualizing and tracing the embeddedness of the organization in its community, constituency, or client base, especially in situations of change, is essential in understanding and reformulating organizational mission, designing new programming, developing leadership and governance, building coalitions and alliances, measuring organizational effectiveness and achievements, and being able to articulate a compelling rationale in grant-writing and other funding appeals for organizational support. This account draws from an auto-ethnographic case study of the author's involvement in a Boston-based workers' center that supports Brazilian immigrants.

scholarly journals THE PROBLEM OF DEFINING »PERFORMANCE« IN NON-PROFIT SPORT ORGANIZATIONS: THE CASE OF BASKETBALL CLUBS FROM SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE

2020 ◽  
pp. 70-84
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Organizational Strategies ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Strategic Orientations ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
Eastern European Countries

The article examines the problem of ambiguities in the process of measuring the performance in non-profit sports clubs which is one of the main causes for disputes between various stakeholders in the process of determining organizational strategies and strategic objectives. The first objective is to use the non-profit basketball clubs as an example, to describe their specifics from the aspect of organizational performance and to reveal what exactly, beside the financial and sports results, is necessary to take into account for the performance evaluation in these organizations. The second objective is to disclose non-profit sport clubs’ actual strategic orientations. The explorative factor analysis performed on performance estimations of 15 organizational goals was obtained on a sample of 73 non-profit basketball clubs from four South-Eastern European countries. The results indicate two basic strategic orientations of non-profit basketball clubs, namely financial-competitive and non-financial-recreational orientation. The findings may be helpful to clubs’ managements in the process of defining missions and hierarchy of strategic goals for their organizations.

scholarly journals Reconsidering the multi-sports club business model: designing effective new strategies in the face of environmental changes

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 10-27
Author(s):  
Fabio Antoldi ◽  
Elisa Capelletti ◽  
Chiara Capelli
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Model Analysis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Business Model Canvas ◽  
Sports Club ◽  
Emerging Issues

Purpose This paper aims to discuss the importance of reconsidering the business model in the organizations, to ensure success over time. The paper lies on the analysis and development of the strategies of ten “Società” Canottieri’ – multi-sports clubs in Northern Italy. Design/methodology/approach The strategies of these clubs have been studied via detailed interviews, as well as data and document analysis. Subsequently, two workshops with the management of the clubs were carried out, to collect evidence of the challenges to their sustainability and to identify possible strategies to overcome these challenges. Findings Drawing on Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas framework and Demil et Lecocq’s approach to business model (a Penrosian approach about the on-going dimension of change as a permanent state of organization), the paper describes how recently emerging issues (external and internal changes) have challenged the traditional business model of these clubs. Finally, authors identify specific actions necessary to (re)create a new value proposition and to modify the sports clubs’ organization in the future, to assure sustainability and success. Originality/value Currently, business model analysis within contexts of (apparent) no economic value creation still remains a relatively unexplored field. The paper describes an effective methodology to implement the business model analysis into a group of independent non-profit organizations. To implement this analysis, the authors adopted the model of Business Model Canvas, but using a transformational and dynamic approach.

scholarly journals Wild leaves and narrow stems : case study of a school garden in transition

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sarah Elizabeth Cramer
Keyword(s):  
School District ◽  
School Garden ◽  
Organizational Mission ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Artifact Analysis ◽  
Perceived Constraints ◽  
Educational Paradigms

Elementary school gardens have grown popular and abundant in recent years, and are established with goals ranging from addressing childhood obesity to improving test scores. With this garden-based learning movement come questions of school garden efficacy in achieving stated goals, as well as school garden sustainability and longevity in an ever more standardized public education environment. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine how the transition of control of a garden-based educational program from independent non-profit to school district affects various elements of the school garden, including participant perceptions and motivations, organizational mission, and teaching methods and philosophies. Through extensive observational data collection, participant interviews, focus groups, and artifact analysis, themes emerged and descriptions of the case before, during, and after the transition of control were developed. The story of the school garden transition was one of negotiations and trade offs. Garden educators perceived a legitimation of their place in the school as a result of the transition, but also perceived constraints placed upon their curricular and pedagogical freedom by the school district. While before the transition the garden program was seen as a challenger of restrictive school policies and educational paradigms, after the transition it adopted more of the qualities and procedures of the school district. Garden-based learning researchers and practitioners are challenged to consider the nuance and implications of these trade offs in program development and strategic planning.

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