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doi:10.22028/D291-32286
Title: | German sports clubs’ recruitment of executive board members |
Author(s): | Emrich, Eike Frenger, Monika Gassmann, Freya Hämmerle, Martin Pierdzioch, Christian |
Editor(s): | Emrich, Eike Pierdzioch, Christian Klein, Markus |
Language: | English |
Pages: | 22 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
SWD key words: | Ehrenamt Oligarchie Sportverein Vorstand |
Free key words: | volunteering oligarchy sports clubs executive boards |
DDC notations: | 300 Social sciences, sociology, anthropology 330 Economics 796 Sports |
Publikation type: | Report |
Abstract: | This paper analyzes the recruitment of executive board members for German sports clubs, an issue of key interest given that volunteers play a dominant role in these sports clubs. Based on a new, micro-level data set, we examine how members of a sports club advance to become executive board members and how board members differ from ordinary members. Based on the results of our study, we examine whether Michels’ “iron law of oligarchy” applies and whether democratic procedures for elections in sports clubs are replaced, even in part, by trust-based oligarchic structures. |
Link to this record: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:291--ds-322864 hdl:20.500.11880/29747 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-32286 |
Series name: | Diskussionspapiere des Europäischen Instituts für Sozioökonomie e.V. = Working papers of the European Institute for Socioeconomics |
Series volume: | 31 |
Date of registration: | 28-Sep-2020 |
Faculty: | HW - Fakultät für Empirische Humanwissenschaften und Wirtschaftswissenschaft |
Department: | HW - Sportwissenschaft |
Professorship: | HW - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Eike Emrich |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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