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Government involvement in high performance sport: an Australian national sporting organisation perspective
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posted on 2016-09-08, 10:44 authored by Lisa Gowthorp, Kristine Toohey, James SkinnerThe purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the
Australian Sports Commission (ASC) and Summer Olympic National
Sporting Organisations (NSOs) to determine the effect the relationship
has on Olympic performance outcomes. Five Olympic NSOs were examined:
Athletics Australia, Cycling Australia, Rowing Australia, Swimming
Australia and Yachting Australia. All five NSOs represent sports in which
Australia has consistently achieved strong results at previous Olympic
Games. These NSOs receive significant funding from the ASC and, as
such, are expected to achieve success at the Olympic Games. The ASC–
NSO relationship was examined through an agency theory framework
whereby the ‘contracts’ between the ASC (principal) and the NSOs
(agents) were investigated through a survey, interviews and document
analysis to identify potential management issues that may affect Olympic
performance outcomes, such as agent or principal opportunism. The
findings identified a lack of a collaborative high performance sport
system in Australia, with the findings emphasising concerns over the
ASC’s management of NSO programmes. While the ASC staff identified
their organisation as the leader of high performance sport in Australia,
the study’s NSO participants did not believe that the ASC had the
capacity, capability and knowledge to fulfil this role.
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International Journal of Sport Policy and PoliticsCitation
GOWTHORP, L., TOOHEY, K. and SKINNER, J., 2016. Government involvement in high performance sport: an Australian national sporting organisation perspective. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 9 (1), pp. 153-171.Publisher
© Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis GroupVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2016-06-15Publication date
2016Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics on 17 Aug 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2016.1220404ISSN
1940-6959Publisher version
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