Image on the internet: inter-organisational isomorphism in image management by professional soccer clubs

Lamertz, Kai; Carney, Michael; Bastien, François

doi:10.1504/ijsmm.2008.017191

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“…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).…”

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Legitimacy in public recreation: examining rhetorical shifts in institutional creation and maintenance

Hemme

Morais

2019

Sport in Society

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This paper uncovers the rhetorical strategies used by the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) to affect institutional discourse and field logics during the first 25 years of its existence (1965-1990). Analyzing editorials featured in the organization's flagship publication, Parks & Recreation, we describe how the NRPA sought to establish itself as the legitimate steward of public recreation, sport, and leisure in the U.S. by utilizing five rhetorical approaches: normalization, rationalization, moralization, authorization, and anti-authorization. Furthermore, we identify discrete patterns and combinations of strategies that have thus far not been described in the literature. Our research adds to prior sport-related institutional work scholarship, which has examined the importance of legitimacy in attempting to establish alternative modes of organizing and functioning in a field dominated by powerful incumbents, by offering an alternative look at the 'starting-fromscratch' establishment of a unified field logic.

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