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    Sport governance encounters: Insights from lived experiences

    Shilbury, D.; Ferkins, Dr Lesley; Smythe, Liz

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    2013
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    Shilbury, D., Ferkins, L., and Smythe, L. (2013). Sport governance encounters: Insights from lived experiences. Sport Management Review, 16, 349-363.
    Permanent link to Research Bank record:
    https://hdl.handle.net/10652/2688
    Abstract
    This study explored sport governance practice from the lived experience of one informant spanning a 30-year period in the governance of two sport organisations (basketball and cricket). Hermeneutic phenomenology, the methodological framework used for this study, seeks to grasp the everyday world, and draw insight and meaning from it. The method involves a series of in-depth interviews with one research participant, supplemented by document analysis. Interviews were analysed using an interpretative process which blended the world views of both the participant and researchers. The participant lived through an era of increasing professionalisation within sport. His narrative, which tapped into his governance expertise at state, national and international levels, provides insights into the transition from an amateur to a commercial culture, referred to in this paper as ‘two worlds colliding’. From this narrative, three related themes were identified and labelled, ‘volunteer and cultural encounters’; ‘structural encounters’; and ‘adversarial encounters’. In drawing on hermeneutic philosophy, and highlighting that which has been hidden from view, direction for future research and practice within the sport governance domain is offered. These directions invite scholars to think about future sport governance research as it relates to federated structures and how collaborative governance theory can sharpen the focus in this domain.
    Keywords:
    sport governance, collaborative governance theory, agency theory, stewardship theory, sport governance structures, hermeneutic phenomenology
    ANZSRC Field of Research:
    150404 Sport and Leisure Management
    Copyright Holder:
    Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand
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    © 2012 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand
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