Nordic Elite Sports Same Ambitions - Different Tracks

by Andersen, Svein S; Ronglan, Lars Tore

• ISBN13: 9788763002455
• ISBN10: 8763002450
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-15
• Publisher: CBS Press

Summary

Very little research exists on organization and leadership of elite sports in the Nordic countries. This book begins to fill the gap and will stimulate further research in the area. Based on a project initiated in 2009, the editors are grateful for support from the Center for Training and Performance (CTP) at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. In two extensive workshops, the contributors discussed preliminary versions and developed a shared format for the presentation of the case studies. In addition, the editors carried out independent research in all four Nordic countries in order to strengthen the common threads and the comparative perspective. As a collaborative research project, the book will benefit students, as well as practitioners in the field.

Author Biography

Svein S. Andersen is a professor of organization studies at the Norwegian Business School, Bl and adjunct professor at the Centre for Training and Performance, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. He has a Ph.D. From Stanford University and has published a number of books and articles. Lars Tore Ronglan is an associate professor and senior researcher at the Centre for Training and Performance at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NSSS). In 2000, he completed his Ph.D. thesis; a sociological analysis of performance groups in elite team sport.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 5
What the book is about	p. 9
Elite sports in Nordic countries: perspectives and challenges	p. 11
The emergence of modern elite sport systems	p. 25
Elite sport development in Norway - a radical transformation	p. 27
The institutionalization of Team Denmark	p. 43
The Swedish elite sport system - or the lack of it?	p. 62
Finnish elite sport - from class-based tensions to pluralist complexity	p. 83
Success stories	p. 107
The Swedish 'golf and tennis miracle'- two paralell stories	p. 109
Norwegian women's handball - organizing for sustainable success	p. 131
Lions on the Ice: the success story of Finnish ice hockey	p. 152
The revival of Danish track cycling	p. 168
Perspectives and priorities in national elite sports	p. 191
Swedish elite sport: contested terrain	p. 193
The anatomy of elite sports organization in Finland	p. 209
Danish elite sport and Team Denmark: new trends?	p. 224
Olympiatoppen in the Norwegian sports cluster	p. 237
Same ambition ù different tracks	p. 257
A comparative perspective on Nordic elite sport: filling a gap	p. 259
Reference list	p. 285
Presentation of authors	p. 302
Index	p. 304
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