(Re)Asserting organization as a lens in sport sociology: The meaning, workings, and consequences of rational design efforts
Cecilia Stenling,
Josef Fahlén,
Michael Sam
et al.
Abstract:The purpose of this article is to (re)assert the importance of an organizational lens in the socio-cultural study of sport. Specifically, we aim to demonstrate the often self-perpetuating and always value-infused nature of rational design, and the organizational processes through which problems, objectives, structures, roles, identities, and knowledges are (re)constituted and privileged in the context of sport. Drawing on an institutional understanding of organizational life, we examine Swedish sports' adoptio… Show more
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