Kikulis, Slack and Hinings (1995) Toward an understanding of the role of agency and choice in the changing structure of Canada's national sport organizations

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Toward an understanding of the role of agency and choice in the changing structure of Canada's national sport organizations

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CONTRIBUTORS:

	Author:	Kikulis, L. M. (University of Alberta)
	Author:	Slack, T. (University of Alberta)
	Author:	Hinings, C. R. (University of Alberta)

JOURNAL:

Journal of Sport Management [JSM], 9(2), 135 - 152.

YEAR:

1995

PUB TYPE:

Journal Article

SUBJECT(S):

non-profit-association; organizational-change; amateur; sport; Canada; Sport-Canada

DISCIPLINE:

Recreation, Sports & Leisure Studies

HTTP:

https://secure.sportquest.com/su.cfm?articleno=375446&title=375446

LANGUAGE:

English

PUB ID:

103-334-910 (Last edited on 2002/04/14 10:45:59 GMT-6)

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ABSTRACT:
The period between 1984 and 1988 was one of considerable change in the Canadian sport system. National sport organizations (NSOs) were subject to institutional pressures from the government agency Sport Canada to dispense with their traditional operating procedures and move to a more professional bureaucratic organizational design. Researchers who have studied this time period have suggested that NSOs were passive receptors of these government pressures and that they acquiesced to the changes promoted by Sport Canada. This paper challenges this idea and suggests that the role of human agents and the choices they made in response to the pressures emanating from the state agency are important aspects of the change dynamic. Using data from a study of 36 NSOs, this paper shows that NSOs demonstrated resistance in the form of pacifying activities and ceremonial conformity.

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