Professionalisation of sports clubs

Klenk, Christoffer; Lang, Markus; Schwizer, Dominik (February 2023). Professionalisation of sports clubs. Current Issues in Sport Science (CISS), 8(2), 030. Bern Open Publishing 10.36950/2023.2ciss030

Sports clubs play a crucial role as they promote (elite) sport and physical activity and fulfill important societal functions. At the same time, sports clubs are confronted with manifold challenges related to developments in society and sport. Therefore, sports clubs tend to professionalise, a process by which sports clubs transform from volunteer-driven to increasingly business-like organisations (e.g., implement paid work, use management tools, restructure their club) to address these problems. In this symposium - an initiative of the Research Network in Sportmanagement Switzerland - the phenomena of professionalisation will be addressed from multiple perspectives by discussing the triggering causes, the transformative process, and the corresponding consequences with the overall objective of getting a more comprehensive understanding of professionalisation in sports clubs. Mrkonjic addresses good governance and professionalisation of non-profit sport clubs and Stieger et al. analyse professionalisation and its consequences for the governance of sports clubs in semi-professional team sports. Mustafi et al. focus on the transfer market for non-big five soccer clubs of Swiss Super League and Schulz et al. examine expectations of voluntary sports clubs with regard to support services of sports federations.

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Abstract)

Division/Institute:

07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Sport Science (ISPW)
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Sport Science (ISPW) > Sport Sociology and Management

UniBE Contributor:

Klenk, Christoffer

Subjects:

700 Arts > 790 Sports, games & entertainment

ISSN:

2414-6641

Publisher:

Bern Open Publishing

Language:

English

Submitter:

Edith Desideria Imthurn

Date Deposited:

25 Mar 2024 10:47

Last Modified:

25 Mar 2024 10:47

Publisher DOI:

10.36950/2023.2ciss030

Uncontrolled Keywords:

professionalisation, commercialisation, governance, service provision

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/194424

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