Beschreibung:
Mathew Dowling is Senior Lecturer in Sport Management, Loughborough University, UK.
This book provides a contemporary collection of studies that advances the understanding of agency in institutions through sport. In doing so, the chapters in this book bridge the theoretical divide between mainstream management and sport management to help facilitate a joint venture for future research.
Introduction - Agency and institutions in sport 1. 'When we meet, we play football, it reminds me of home': emotions, institutional work, and sport-for-development and peace 2. Trained to be sexist: operationalizing institutional logics in the co-construction of gendered discourse in sport 3. Regional policy and organizational fields in multi-level sport governance 4. Integrating emotions into legitimacy work: an institutional work perspective on new sport emergence 5. Agency in institutionalized sport organizations: examining how institutions suppress agency 6. The legitimacy work of institutional disruption and maintenance: examining the rivalry between LIV golf and the professional golf association