dc.contributor.author | Stenling, Cecilia | |
dc.contributor.author | Fahlen, Josef | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-22T21:49:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-22T21:49:49Z | |
dc.date.created | 2022-02-14T15:45:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier.citation | European Journal for Sport and Society. 2021, 18(2), Side 168-186. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1613-8171 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2986925 | |
dc.description | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The focus of this paper is sport club consultants, an under-researched role that is uniquely situated at the interface of sport policy systems and clubs. Incumbents of this role—the label of which varies between countries—conduct club-directed developmental work to align clubs with centrally issued policies and programmes. Conceptualising sport club consultants as a sport-specific street-level bureaucrat, the paper’s purpose is, first, to analyse sport club consultants’ interaction style vis-à-vis clubs and, second, to demonstrate that broader and unintended transformative effects may follow from this rather micro practice. We propose that sport club consultants’ institutionally shaped interaction style may be operationalised along four dimensions (e.g. case prioritisation principle, shaping of interaction context, interactor positioning, communicative strategy). The substantive empirical content of these dimensions may vary between systems and the policy in question. Nonetheless, we show that system-level fragmentation, professionalisation, and centralisation are potential consequences of the work through which sport club consultants attempt to reconcile tensions between centrally distilled policies and clubs’ readiness, willingness, and ability to change. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.subject | multi-level federative systems | en_US |
dc.subject | policy implementation | en_US |
dc.subject | sport development | en_US |
dc.subject | Sweden | en_US |
dc.subject | system-level transformative effects | en_US |
dc.title | Sport club consultants as street-level bureaucrats in sport policy processes: Conceptualising micro-level interaction styles and their macro-level consequences | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | © 2021 The Author(s) | en_US |
dc.source.pagenumber | 168-186 | en_US |
dc.source.volume | 18 | en_US |
dc.source.journal | European Journal for Sport and Society | en_US |
dc.source.issue | 2 | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/16138171.2021.1908731 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 2001477 | |
dc.description.localcode | Institutt for idrett og samfunnsvitenskap / Department of Sport and Social Sciences | en_US |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 1 | |