Sport and Organizational Studies: Exploring Synergy

Workshop

University of Michigan

November 2-4, 2000

Last Updated: 02/22/2000

Workshop Objective

When one reviews the landscape of organizational studies, one sees a number of issues which might be effectively studied within sport; i.e., diversity, organizational reputation, organizational identification, leadership, high-performance teams, franchising, creation of strategic advantage.

The objective of our workshop is to investigate how studying such phenomena within sports can contribute to our understanding of organizations.

Workshop Structure

Given the cross-disciplinary nature of the work-shop, we will endeavor to develop common understanding and synergy among participants, many of whom will have different training (e.g., organization behavior, psychology, sociology) and areas of expertise (e.g., diversity, leadership, organizational reputation, sport). In order to facilitate the development of common understanding and synergy, the work-shop will be organized around a series of sessions.

The "kick-off" of each session will be undertaken by a participant with the appropriate expertise; that participant will address central questions being posed in the relevant literature and how studying sport might contribute to answering the identified questions. After each "kick-off", all participants will enter the fray with their ideas and insights, all of which will be recorded for subsequent synthesis and distribution.

Workshop Schedule

Location: UM Business School, Executive Education, Room 0770

Thursday, November 2nd

A) Opening Session

3:00pm -- A1) Welcome and Introduction

4:00pm -- A2) Sport-the Context:

Sport; framing the phenomenon;

Carol Barr, The University of Massachusetts; Wendy Frisby; The University of British Columbia.

B) Intermediate Sessions; Organizational Studies Through the Lens of Sport:

7:30 -- B6) Stakeholder Management;

Richard Wolfe; University of Michigan.

 

Friday, November 3rd

 

8:30am -- B2) High Performance Teams;

Deborah Crown; The University of Alabama

 

10:30am -- B3) Open-Book Management; Making Business a Game;

Jim Terborg; The University of Oregon.

 

1:30pm -- B4) Leadership;

Barry Staw; The University of California.

 

4:30pm -- B5) Organizational Identification;

Janet Dukerich; The University of Texas.

 

7:30pm -- B1) Diversity;

Keith Harrison; The University of Michigan.

 

Saturday, November 4th

8:30am -- B7) Creating strategic advantage;

Laura Poppo; Virginia Tech University.

 

10:30pm -- B8) Franchising;

John Usher; Memorial University.

 

12:00pm -- C) Summary Sessions:

C1) Sport and organizational studies, a synthesis;

All Participants

C2) Sport versus other contexts of organizational studies;

All Participants

C3) Discuss distribution of ideas and insights from the previous sessions.

 

D) Michigan-Michigan State Hockey Game

Roster of Workshop Participants

Jay Anand - Business School, University of Michigan
Carole Barr - Sport Management, The University of Massachusetts
Caroline Bartel - Stern School of Business, New York University
Kim Cameron - Business School, University of Michigan
Deborah Crown - College of Business, University of Alabama
Janet Dukerich - College of Business, The University of Texas
Wendy Frisby - School of Human Kinetics, The University of British Columbia
C. Keith Harrison - Division of Kinesiology, University of Michigan
Pat Maloy - Division of Kinesiology, University of Michigan
Laura Poppo - Pamplin School of Business, Virginia Tech University
Barry Staw - Haas School of Business, The University of California
Jim Terborg - Lundquist College of Business, The University of Oregon
John Tropman - School of Social Work, The University of Michigan
John Usher - Faculty of Business, Memorial University
Jim Weese - Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Windsor
Richard Wolfe - Division of Kinesiology, University of Michigan

This work-shop is funded by the generous support of:

• Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies (ICOS)
• The University of Michigan Office of the Vice President For Research
• The University of Michigan Division of Kinesiology
• The University of Michigan.

For more information, please contact Richard Wolfe (734-615-5218) wolfer@umich.edu.

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