The Development of a Framework to Capture Perceptions of Sport Organizations Legitimacy

Lock, Daniel; Filo, Kevin; Kunkel, Thilo; Skinner, James

doi:10.1123/jsm.2014-0005

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“…. It is argued that between, and within, audiences there are varying evaluations of organisational legitimacy because different beliefs inform the evaluation process (e.g., Haack et al 2014, Finch et al 2015, Lock et al 2015. As a consensus regarding legitimacy is reached between audiences and an organisation is institutionalised, deviant opinions, so-called because they are against the validity consensus, are suppressed either through fear of loss (e.g., threat of social disapproval) or coercive gain (e.g., conforming provides access to resources).…”

Section: Multi-level Legitimacy Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Legitimacy driven change at the World Anti-Doping Agency

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International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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The effectiveness of the World Anti-Doping Agency as an international non-governmental organisation with a mission to regulate anti-doping policy has been challenged before by doping scandals in sport. Historically, anti-doping policy development has been primarily reactive, determined by the need for dominant organisations to maintain power rather than to protect athletes. The purpose of this paper is to explore reactive anti-doping policy change from a multi-level legitimacy perspective. Using multi-level legitimacy theory and the concept of legitimacy challenges, it is argued that reactive policy change is motivated by a need to manage perceived organisational legitimacy. The recent exposure of systematic doping in Russia is used as an example to support this analysis. These findings are discussed in the context of current criticisms of anti-doping policy.

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Section: Multi-level Legitimacy Theorymentioning

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“…Participants' perceptions of a pressure to compete with other clubs for members align with a phenomenon described in the literature as bandwagon mimetic pressures, where organizations fear losing legitimacy if they do not adopt similar models as their competitors, thus driving strategic planning (O'Brien & Slack, 2004;Skille, 2011). Legitimacy is obtained when constituents, such as participants, believe that the organization's actions mirror accepted practices (Lock et al, 2015). In this case, the use of strategic planning was viewed by participants as being the accepted practice among established clubs.…”

Section: Inter-club Competitionmentioning

confidence: 67%

Exploring the conditions for strategic planning in nonprofit community sport

Morrison

Misener

2021

Sport Management Review

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Leaders of community sport organizations (CSOs) may use strategic planning to navigate complex pressures, allocate resources and establish a plan of action to meet their mandate. This study draws on institutional theory and a framework of receptive contexts for strategic change to examine the conditions (contextual factors and managerial actions) that influence strategic planning in CSOs. A multiple-case study of six CSOs provided rich detail about how CSOs' environments shape their decision-making processes and influence strategy. Findings revealed that environmental pressures, including a club's community profile, inter-club competition and the expectations of governing bodies, influenced strategic planning in CSOs. Other critical conditions included a supportive organizational culture and organizational capacity. Findings also highlighted the isomorphic pressures that CSO leaders respond to and resist through strategic planning. While findings of the current study are consistent with the broad features of receptive contexts related to environmental pressure, supportive organization culture and key people leading change, the subthemes in the current study provide new insight into, and justification for, contextualized approaches to strategic planning. The research provides important insight for CSO leaders to consider when using strategic planning to increase membership, address contemporary challenges and achieve longterm goals.

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“…As noted in the panel comments, sport organizations would have to respond to individualization and personalization, generational shifts, commercialization and social and health benefits of sport when designing and delivering sport experiences. Hence, when investigating the sport user experience, a sport organization's unique characteristics should be considered as it reacts to environmental forces and consumer perceptions (23). This management perspective is often neglected in sport consumer research, given that management decisions and activities are often unobserved by sport customers.…”

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The Effect of Purchasing Welfare on Consumer Purchasing Behavior: the Role of Mediator Attitudes

2019

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Background. Despite the research being accomplished so far, there is no clear answer to the question whether purchasing welfare is affected by the attitude of customer purchasing behavior. Objectives. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of purchasing welfare on consumer purchasing behavior and to assess the mediator role of attitudes in this regard. Methods. This was a descriptive-correlational study conducted using a survey method. The statistical population of the study consisted of all young consumers of sporting goods (15-30 years old) in Isfahan city. In this study, there were 23 free parameters in the proposed model. The sample size was considered for each free parameter of 15 people. Finally, 350 people were estimated. Purchasing welfare (Edley et al., 2013), attitudes (Lee and Trill, 2012) and consumer purchasing behavior (Edwards, 1998) were used as the instruments and their face and content validity and reliability were confirmed (0.75, 0.80, 0.81). Data were analyzed using Amos-22 software. Results. The research model had a favorable fit. Also, the mediator attitude was a partial relationship between purchasing welfare and purchase behavior (P < 0.05). Conclusion. Consumer welfare increased the behavior of consumer purchasing, but with the increasing consumer attitude in the relationship, the impact of purchasing prosperity on behavior increased.

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The Development of a Framework to Capture Perceptions of Sport Organizations Legitimacy

Cited by 27 publications

References 37 publications

Legitimacy driven change at the World Anti-Doping Agency

Legitimacy driven change at the World Anti-Doping Agency

Exploring the conditions for strategic planning in nonprofit community sport

The Effect of Purchasing Welfare on Consumer Purchasing Behavior: the Role of Mediator Attitudes

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