Professionalisation Of Sports Clubs In Semi-Professional Team Sports: Separation Of The Elite Section And Its Consequences For The Governance

Meier, Romano Marco; Stieger, Raphael; Lang, Grazia; Schulz, Luc; Schlesinger, Torsten; Nagel, Siegfried (September 2023). Professionalisation Of Sports Clubs In Semi-Professional Team Sports: Separation Of The Elite Section And Its Consequences For The Governance. In: 31st European Association for Sport Management Conference ESAM. Belfast. 12.-15. September 2023.

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Sports clubs in semi-professional team sports (i.e. members of a national league, part-time
employed players, mostly voluntary off-field work) often professionalise their management
due to expectations from internal and external stakeholders. At some point in this process, the
question arises if the clubs’ elite section should be separated due to the entrepreneurial risks
and high use of resources. If the club chooses to do so, there are different approaches regarding
the separated sections' organisational structure and legal form (Adam & Hoveman, 2017).
While some sports clubs organise the elite section as a separate club, others choose a profitoriented
legal form, like a limited liability company (LLC) or a stock company. Here, the
following questions arise: (RQ1) When and why do sports clubs (not) choose to separate their
elite section from the rest of the club? (RQ2) What are the consequences of the varying
approaches to the governance of sports clubs?

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