IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rsmrxx/v27y2024i4p572-594.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Strategy practitioners and the procedural legitimacy of strategic planning in nonprofit community sport

Author

Listed:
  • Kristen A. Morrison
  • Katie E. Misener

Abstract

This study examines how leaders of community sport organizations (CSOs) engage in a strategic planning process through the intersection of institutional work and the strategy-as-practice (SAP) approach. The SAP approach focuses on the micro-level social activities, processes, and practices that inform how organizational leaders engage in strategic planning. A multiple-case study of four CSOs with contrasting approaches to the practice of strategy provides insight into the role of strategy practitioners and their choice of strategy activities. The study also examines how these activities contribute to the procedural legitimacy of strategic planning. The findings highlight four roles that strategy practitioners hold within their clubs (i.e. consultant, board member, staff member, facilitator) and three general types of activities that indicate varying levels of stakeholder involvement in planning. The findings provide evidence of the need for a granular approach to the study of strategic planning and a focus on how organizational leaders’ roles and choice of activities shape strategic planning and its legitimacy.

Suggested Citation

  • Kristen A. Morrison & Katie E. Misener, 2024. "Strategy practitioners and the procedural legitimacy of strategic planning in nonprofit community sport," Sport Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(4), pages 572-594, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsmrxx:v:27:y:2024:i:4:p:572-594
    DOI: 10.1080/14413523.2024.2329827
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14413523.2024.2329827
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/14413523.2024.2329827?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:rsmrxx:v:27:y:2024:i:4:p:572-594. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/rsmr .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.