Essays about: "Professionalisation processes"

Found 2 essays containing the words Professionalisation processes.

1. 1. Winning without scoring on the field - How management accounting shapes the modern elite football club

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

   Author : Falk Wahlström; Marcus Åvall; [2019]
   Keywords : Management accounting; Sports; Institutional logics; Professionalisation; Foucault;

   Abstract : Following an increasing commercialisation of sports in general and football in particular, modern sports organisations may need to challenge their current business model. Through a qualitative study of a Swedish elite football club, the aim of this paper has been to distinguish the roles of management accounting when reframing a sports organisation with a strong culture. READ MORE

3. 2. Football agents as occupational loners - How established practitioners act to win market power

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för marknadsföring och strategi; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

   Author : Ludvig Ekman; Joakim Runnemo; [2017]
   Keywords : Embeddedness; Professionalisation processes; Intermediary; Football agent; Information asymmetry;

   Abstract : The research purpose of this study is to investigate how football agents act to gain market power, despite an apparent decreasing need for intermediaries lowering transaction costs within the football industry. Prior theory has emphasised market conditions to explain the growth of the profession, thereby overlooking the agents as active partakers in market developments. READ MORE