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The board–executive relationship in team sport charitable foundations: unpacking trust building through ‘exchange currencies’
Get PDFPerformance management of National Sports Organisations: a holistic theoretical model
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Organisational performance of sport organisations has been studied over the last three decades. However, little attention was paid towards performance management (PM) compared to performance measurement. The purpose of this paper is to close this research gap by establishing a holistic perspective for PM of National Sports Organisations (NSOs) that accounts for their uniqueness, the interdependence of their operating systems and their relationship with their environments. Furthermore, this paper presents a holistic model of PM for NSOs.
Design/methodology/approach
The model was developed from a literature review process and uses the macro, meso and micro framework to describe external and internal environmental influences that affect the PM of NSOs.
Findings
The NSO’s ability to respond to the dynamics of their external environment by implementing organisational processes that account for the resources available and their structural designs influences their PM. Furthermore, the ability of the individuals within NSO to create enabling environments for PM influences organisational efficiency and effectiveness.
Research limitations/implications
This paper contributes to sport management literature on the PM of NSOs, and informs sport managers on ways to improve organisational performance by implementing holistic approaches to PM.
Originality/value
This is the first study that takes a holistic approach to PM of NSO and depicts the specific elements that play a crucial role in managing NSO’s multi-dimensional performance
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
China: Emerging Football Nation, Emerging Governance Issues
No full textChina has recently embarked upon a process which the country’s leaders hope will result in its male national team winning the World Cup by 2050. Following the initial announcement of this football vision by President Xi Jinping in November 2014, the Chinese government and businesses have subsequently engaged in a broad range of activities designed to realise the country’s goals. These activities have ranged from acquiring football clubs (for example, Italian club Inter Milan) to investing in service organisations (for example, Infront Sports and Media) and securing the rights to major sponsorships (for example, Wanda’s deal with FIFA). The activities have nevertheless resulted in the emergence of several challenges to existing systems of governance both in Chinese football and, more significantly, in football elsewhere in the world. This chapter examines recent developments in Chinese football, and analyses the governance challenges they are posing
Embedding good governance principles in sport governing bodies through a code of ethics : opportunities, pitfalls and good practices
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Anti-doping in China: An analysis of the policy implementation processes through the stakeholders' perspectives
Get PDFDespite the vast research on achieving a high level of compliance with anti-doping policies (from the World Anti-Doping Code to national anti-doping regulations), little is known about the implementation of Chinese anti-doping policy. According to information from WADA, China has made impressive progress in enforcing anti-doping regulations, which suggests that China demonstrates some degree of genuineness in promoting the true spirit of competitive sport. As one of the most populous places in the world, covering approximately 9.6 million square kilometres, a question remains as to how are anti-doping policies and practices implemented in this country?
Both primary and secondary collection methods were used to answer this question. Secondary data was gathered from existing literature on Chinese sport-related policies and relevant Chinese anti-doping policy documents. The collection of primary data was divided into two stages. In the first stage, data was collected through semi-structured face to face interviews with representatives of CHINADA, local sports bureaus, sports universities and sports schools, journalists, coaches and athletes in China. During the second stage, data was again collected through semi-structured telephone interviews with senior manager from WADA and other countries' NADOs in order to corroborate and clarify some general trends discovered in the preliminary analysis of the data from the first stage of the data collection. In total, data from 42 valid interviews was collected for this research.
The results of this research focus systematically on five aspects of Chinese anti-doping work, namely: anti-doping education and prevention; doping testing and investigation; analysis; results management and punishment; and bilateral policy. Moreover, this study explains how the main Chinese anti-doping policies are constructed within its unique political system. The research also demonstrates how formal and informal Chinese institutions have impacted on people's behaviour and how this behaviour influences policy development and Code compliance. This leads to reflection upon policy theory and the policy process specific to the Chinese context. The aim is to fill the gap in existing Western literature about the process of Chinese anti-doping related policy-making and to reveal the uniqueness of the Chinese anti-doping administration system and its impact on the behaviour of the relevant personnel
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