• Coaching elite athletes: how coaches stimulate elite athletes' reflection 

      Hansen, Per Øystein; Andersen, Svein S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-04-07)
      This article investigates the coaching behaviour of five Norwegian national elite team coaches in cross-country skiing. It identifies how they acted as ‘sensegivers’ towards the athletes. An important part of this is how ...
    • Combining coaching with family life: A study of female and male elite level coaches in Norway 

      Sisjord, Mari Kristin; Fasting, Kari; Sand, Trond Svela (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The challenges of combining work and family life has been considered a women’s issue, also reflected in research. In recent years, scholars have argued that the work-family interface may also concern male coaches. Therefore, ...
    • ‘Humour helps’: elite sports coaching as a balancing act 

      Ronglan, Lars Tore; Aggerholm, Kenneth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-02-28)
      To date, humour's role in sport settings has hardly received scholarly attention. However, reflecting on future research within the sociology of sports coaching (Jones, Ronglan, Potrac, & Cushion, 2011), it was suggested ...
    • Leading and organising national teams: Functions of institutional leadership 

      Hansen, Per Øystein; Chroni, Stiliani; Skille, Eivind Åsrum; Abrahamsen, Frank Eirik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      National team coaches are tasked to increase athlete capacity for success – a key task of theirs is leading the athletes and team’s entourage. Few studies have detailed empirical accounts of leadership at the organisational-, ...