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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Organization Theory and the Management of Sport Organizations | |
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| Why Sport Managers Need to Understand Organizations and Organization Theory | |
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| Some Definitions | |
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| Ways to Look at Sport Organizations | |
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| State of the Art in Sport Management and Suggestions for Future Directions | |
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| Format of the Book | |
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| Format of Each Chapter | |
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| Doing Research in Sport Management | |
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| The Research Process | |
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| Theoretical Framework | |
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| The So-Called Qualitative-Quantitative Research Debate | |
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| Research Design | |
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| Data Collection Methods | |
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| Data Analysis Methods | |
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| Quality Issues | |
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| The Write-Up | |
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| Organizational Goals and Effectiveness | |
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| Importance of Understanding Organizational Goals and Effectiveness for Sport Managers | |
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| Organizational Goals | |
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| Effectiveness or Efficiency | |
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| Approaches to Studying Organizational Effectiveness | |
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| Dimensions of Organizational Structure | |
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| Complexity | |
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| Formalization | |
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| Centralization | |
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| Design Options in Sport Organizations | |
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| Typologies and Taxonomies | |
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| Mintzberg's Configurations | |
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| The Simple Structure | |
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| The Machine Bureaucracy | |
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| The Divisionalized Form | |
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| The Professional Bureaucracy | |
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| Adhocracy | |
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| Organizational Designs As Ideal Types | |
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| Notes on Organizational Size | |
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| Strategy | |
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| What Is Organizational Strategy? | |
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| Levels of Strategy | |
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| Strategy Formulation and Implementation | |
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| Strategy and Structure | |
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| Strategy in Voluntary Sport Organizations | |
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| Strategic Alliances | |
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| What Are Strategic Alliances? | |
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| Establishing Strategic Alliances | |
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| Managing Strategic Alliances | |
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| Sport Organizations and Their Environments | |
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| The Nature of the Organizational Environment | |
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| Research on Organizational Environments | |
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| Controlling Environmental Uncertainty | |
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| Other Perspectives on the Organization-Environment Relationship | |
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| The Relationship Between an Organization's Environment and Its Structure | |
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| Sport Organizations and Technology | |
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| What Is Technology? | |
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| Research on Technology and Organizations | |
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| Critiques of the Technology Imperative | |
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| Microelectronic Technologies | |
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| Relationship Between Technology and Organizational Structure | |
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| Power and Politics in Sport Organizations | |
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| Strategic Choice | |
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| Power and Authority | |
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| Sources of Power | |
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| Organizational Politics | |
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| Power in Sport Management Research | |
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| Managing Organizational Conflict | |
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| What Is Conflict? | |
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| Horizontal and Vertical Conflict | |
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| Is Conflict Dysfunctional to the Operation of a Sport Organization? | |
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| The Conflict Process | |
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| Sources of Conflict in Sport Organizations | |
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| Conflict Management Strategies | |
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| Stimulating Conflict | |
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| Current Research About Conflict | |
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| Organizational Change | |
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| The Concept of Change | |
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| Change As Paradox | |
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| Perspectives on Organizational Change | |
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| What Causes Organizational Change? | |
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| Resistance to Change | |
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| Dealing With Resistance and Implementing Change | |
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| Stages of the Change Process | |
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| Innovation in Sport Organizations | |
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| Organizational Decision Making | |
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| Defining Decision Making | |
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| Conditions Under Which Decisions Are Made | |
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| Approaches to Understanding Decision Making | |
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| Managing Organizational Culture | |
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| What Is Organizational Culture? | |
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| Manifestations of a Sport Organization's Culture | |
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| Thick and Thin Cultures | |
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| One or More Cultures | |
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| Organizational Culture and Effectiveness | |
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| Creating, Managing, and Changing a Sport Organization's Culture | |
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| Leadership and Sport Organizations | |
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| Trait Approach | |
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| Style or Behavioral Approach | |
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| Contingency or Situational Approach | |
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| Charismatic and Transformational Leadership | |
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| The Critique of Leadership and Some Suggestions for Leadership | |
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| Research in Sport Management | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Authors | |