The Culture of History in Sport Management's Foundation: The Intellectual Influence of Harvard Business School on Four Founding Sport Management Scholars

Wilde, Ari de; Seifried, Chad; Adelman, Melvin L.

doi:10.1080/00336297.2010.10483657

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“…If the organization was to survive, let alone flourish, the founders' best course was to strive for legitimacy through the early establishment of respectable academic vehicles for the field and to provide a broad enough scope that the interests of the members could shape the future direction of the organization. History has borne out the success of this strategy in facilitating the growth of the organization and the field of sport manage ment into one of the most respected management societies within the study of sport-and as a unique contributor to the development of the broader canon of management theory (de Wilde, et al, 2010).…”

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“…This phenomenon appears to stem more from the founders' steadfast support of "letting the mar ketplace be the judge"; the panel continued to allude to a general lack of interest by both NASSM members and sport management students in most physical activity domains beyond commercial sport as a driving force behind the narrowing of the field from its original vision. However, beyond that we should recognize that other notable works by Earle Zeigler, Stephen Hardy, and Guy Lewis used a variety of the case-study approaches that emphasized the usefulness of studying business and incorporating business-like courses into their programs; an approach not unlike those Wallace Donham, Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and Joseph Schumpeter (of the Harvard Business School) used to address inadequacies present in professional preparation of students (de Wilde, Seifried, & Adelman, 2010).…”

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“Let the Marketplace be the Judge”: The Founders Reflect on the Origins and Trajectory of NASSM

Bowers¹,

Green²,

Seifried

2014

Journal of Sport Management

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Founders of the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) set out to realize a future in which the management of sport was part of a broader vision that included exercise, dance and play. However, the organization quickly became untethered from this broad interpretation of sport management. In this mixedmethod historical research and Delphi study, 10 founding members of NASSM explain the underlying reasons why NASSM leaders redirected the organization's focus over time. Drawing from the literature on institutional legitimacy as a lens to understand the development of NASSM, the findings suggest an emphasis on com mercial sport emerged over that of exercise, dance, and play. This emphasis was perceived to offer a more sustainable niche within the crowded sport and physical activity academic society continuum. Shaped by market-and culture-driven processes, NASSM's legitimacy-seeking efforts ultimately catalyzed a narrowing of the organization's scope.

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“Let the Marketplace be the Judge”: The Founders Reflect on the Origins and Trajectory of NASSM

Bowers¹,

Green²,

Seifried

2014

Journal of Sport Management

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“…Chandler (1962, 1977), a student under Talcott Parsons, also examined entrepreneurs, innovation and corporate governance structure to unpack modern organisational strategy. Chandler followed the example of Parsons and Max Weber to promote “the study of change over time and the usefulness of understanding broad historical shifts and trends” to generalise trends and propose causation for the functioning of large modern corporations (de Wilde et al , 2010, p. 409). In winning the Pulitzer Prize with The Visible Hand (1977), Chandler legitimised comparative history as a lens to understand how individuals, forces and environmental conditions changed business practices in some industries but not others (Booth and Rowlinson, 2006; McCraw, 1988; McCraw, Koehn, and Nelles, 1999; Novicevic et al , 2009).…”

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The history of the modernisation construct

Seifried

Novičević

2017

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Purpose This paper aims to trace and/or historicise modernisation as a conceptual framework from the antecedents to present times. It also highlights the recent and past attention provided to modernisation by business and economic history scholars to recognise their contribution. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a literature review which offers a sample of debate from foundational scholars regarding the concept of modernisation emanating from sociologists, historians and business scholars. To present an analysis of the recent activity from business scholars on modernisation from highly recognizable journals and draw conclusions about the conceptual framework regarding its future as a framing device, the authors used search functions in the Business Source Complete database and specific journal search engines. Findings A keyword search of modernisation produced 45 published articles from 2000 to 2016 in business-related history and Financial Times top 50 journals. The foremost recognizable aspect of modernisation, as a construct presented here, demonstrates the concept that aims to illustrate a basic and/or universal pattern of the social processes that primarily affect development (e.g. cultural, economic, organisational, ecological, technological, etc.). Moreover, the authors demonstrate that economic and business scholars helped identify and explain different types of modernisation, reinforce or connect specific characteristics to modernisation, develop modernisation as an index capable of measurement and provide evidence of modernisation as a rhetorical strategy. Originality/value Little to no previous studies on modernisation emphasised on the contribution of business and economic historians; instead, they focused on the contributions of sociologists and social historians. Business and management historians served as an important voice in the development of modernisation as a conceptual frame. They highlighted the opportunities that are available to position modernisation as a useful tool to predict the future of traditional and advanced organisations.

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“…It has long been noted that historians, and business historians in particular, have played an important role in the development of sport management as an academic discipline, particularly in North America (de Wilde et al, 2010). Increasingly, authors in this field believe that heritage, which aims to educate the public at large about elements of history, should form an integral part of sport (management) degrees for a variety of reasons: to ensure good facility management (Pfleegor & Seifried, 2012); and to encourage students to use archives and museums to investigate a sport's history and gain opportunities for engagement and work placement (Kohe, 2018;Kohe et al, 2021).…”

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Sport (Tourism and) Heritage, Undergraduate Sport Management Degrees, and Remote Teaching: A View From Scotland

McDowell

2023

Sport Management Education Journal

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This essay examines the creation of a new undergraduate module on sport, tourism and heritage, at The University of Edinburgh, one based within the confines of a bachelor’s program in sport management. The author emphasizes that this is part of a growing trend toward integrating heritage (alongside history) into Scottish/U.K. sport management academia, as something which can potentially address skills and employability outcomes while still offering the opportunity to critically discuss issues in the sport industry. The creation, running, format, and content of this module is discussed, within the context of its first being offered remotely in September 2020 in between “lockdowns” during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Culture of History in Sport Management's Foundation: The Intellectual Influence of Harvard Business School on Four Founding Sport Management Scholars

Cited by 19 publications

References 32 publications

“Let the Marketplace be the Judge”: The Founders Reflect on the Origins and Trajectory of NASSM

“Let the Marketplace be the Judge”: The Founders Reflect on the Origins and Trajectory of NASSM

The history of the modernisation construct

Sport (Tourism and) Heritage, Undergraduate Sport Management Degrees, and Remote Teaching: A View From Scotland

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