Return to community sport: Leaning on evidence in turbulent times

A Doherty, P Millar, K Misener - Managing sport and leisure, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This commentary considers return to organized sport amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in the
context of nonprofit community (grassroots) sport clubs that are the backbone of sport in …

Organizational capacity and performance of community sport clubs

A Doherty, G Cuskelly - Journal of Sport Management, 2019 - journals.humankinetics.com
Using a multidimensional framework, the authors developed the Community Sport Capacity
Scale to measure the key elements of capacity in community sport organizations or clubs …

Examining the influence of shared leadership and organizational capacity on performance and innovative work behavior in sport for development and peace

PG Svensson, S Kang, JP Ha - Journal of Sport …, 2019 - journals.humankinetics.com
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of shared leadership and
organizational capacity on organizational performance and innovative work behavior (IWB) …

“I feel we are inclusive enough”: Examining swimming coaches' understandings of inclusion and disability

A Hammond, R Jeanes… - Sociology of Sport …, 2019 - journals.humankinetics.com
In this study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight Victorian swimming
coaches to examine the discourses of disability and inclusion that they expressed in relation …

Investigating grassroots sports' engagement for refugees: Evidence from voluntary sports clubs in Germany

T Nowy, S Feiler, C Breuer - Journal of Sport and Social …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Unprecedented numbers of refugees have affected European society at large, and the
organized sports system, in particular. Combining the concepts of organizational capacity …

The complexities of implementing inclusion policies for disabled people in UK non-disabled voluntary community sports clubs

M Christiaens, I Brittain - European Sport Management Quarterly, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Research question Adopting a qualitative case study design, this article draws upon the
concept of ableism to analyse the extent to which mainstreaming policy in the UK leads to …

The relationship between disability and inclusion policy and sports coaches' perceptions of practice

AM Hammond - International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The present study explored how disability-inclusive policies (eg, the 7 Pillars of Inclusion
and the Inclusive Swimming Framework) were enacted in practice by eight swimming …

Understanding experiences with capacity building in the sport for development context

CE Wegner, P Millar, T Bopp… - Sport management review, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Sport-for-development organizations (SFDs) require capacity to meet their goals and sustain
their programming. However, capacity building may need to be imagined differently from …

[HTML][HTML] Sport coaches as policy actors: An investigation of the interpretation and enactment of disability and inclusion policy in swimming in Victoria Australia

AM Hammond, D Penney, R Jeanes - Sport, education and society, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This paper draws upon education policy sociology, and sport coaching literature, in critically
examining sport coaches as policy actors. Stephen Ball and colleagues' conceptualisation of …

Facilitating disability sport and physical recreation during the initial months of COVID-19: examining organizational innovation in third sector organizations

JW Hayton - Leisure Sciences, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This article explores the organizational innovation of third sector sport organizations
(TSSOs) that deliver or facilitate the delivery of sport and physical recreation for disabled …