20 research outputs found
Professionalisation of sport federations â a multi-level framework for analysing forms, causes and consequences
Toward a sociology of reuse: deconstructing the milkbottle
This article investigates the practice of reuse, the relation between individuals and objects, using as a case study the refillable glass milk bottle. Based on interviews with 22 individuals in mainly rural settings, the study aims to understand what the milk bottle means today to the many people who still use it, and what the socioeconomic and other structures are that sustain this kind of product reuse. The discussion exposes the way that reuse is about both consumption and disposal and is maintained by a web of household practices, revealing the milk bottle as both a site of resistance to supermarkets and a site for the construction of collective and individual identities. We also expose the way that the materiality of the bottle enables myth and trust to be articulated. We conclude that this reuse practice is a form of non-market mediated exchange, marking reciprocal relations of care and trust
Le parapente au sommet du puy-de-DĂŽme : analyse dâun territoire touristique et sportif
Les expériences de loisirs sportifs chez les personnes ùgées de plus de 50 ans : microcosme révélateur des rapports sociaux
The organisational performance of national swimming federations in Mediterranean countries: A comparative approach
The Social Responsibility of Football Clubs: The 'Shared Value' as a Process of Value Creation?
In the literature, CSR has been studied as a mean to reconnect sport organizations and society.
Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to Porter and Kramerâs « shared value ». Therefore, after presenting
the management of sport organisations as well as CSR, this article will be drawn on Crane et al.âs six
characteristics of CSR and on Porter and Kramerâs concept to assess whether professional football clubs in
Belgium are developing CSR or not. Then, we will assess, in this qualitative and exploratory research, if the
most developed ones regarding CSR are also the most involved in the shared value process. In addition, value
creation will be examined regarding supporters. This study, realized in 2012, allows discovering that if CSR is
well developed in the observed football clubs, differences exist between them and opportunities to create shared
value can still be taken. We will show that the success of one club doesnât depend only of the financial and
human resources. A successful RSE process has an impact on the representation that the stakeholders have about
the club and on the engagement for the club
Gendered Identities in Self-Descriptions of Electoral Candidates in a French National Sport Federation
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in European Sport Management Quarterly on 29/11/2010, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/16184742.2010.524239The aim of this study was to evaluate ways in which male and female candidates for election to the Executive Committee of a National Sport Federation (NSF) for the period 2004â2008 defined themselves in their candidate self descriptions (CSD). Forty-one statements of candidates were subjected to textual data analysis (using ALCESTE software). Four lexical classes were identified, and the demographic profiles of the authors contrasted. The classes identified were subsequently subjected to correspondence analysis which identified two factors explaining 76.6% of total variance, reflecting respectively, gendered roles (first factor) and presence/absence of previous national level experience (second factor). Findings provide a discursive perspective on the construction of gendered roles in a sporting organisation