Business Conformance in Sport Management: Leadership Styles, Governance Structures, and Organizational Cultures (Routledge Research in Sport Business and Management)

Business Conformance in Sport Management examines how leadership styles, governance structures, and organizational cultures in sport organizations secure both legal compliance and social conformance through principles of democracy, transparency, ethics, and inclusion. The book offers a comprehensive overview of management approaches ranging from controlling to stimulating leadership styles, federal to unitary governance structures, and inclusive to exclusive organizational cultures.Through a detailed examination of these frameworks within the field of sport, the book sheds light onto when each approach proves most effective, with particular emphasis on the International Biathlon Union case study before and after its corruption scandal.Readers will gain three essential insights: a contingent approach to leadership that adapts to specific sport management situations; a critical distinction between legal compliance and social conformance with their differing consequences; and an applicati