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Organizational Performance of Olympic Sport Governing Bodies : Dealing with measurements and priorities

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Winand, Mathieu [UCL] Zintz, Thierry [UCL] Bayle, Emmanuel Robinson, Leigh

It is widely recognized that the performance measurement of organizations should help them in their strategic decisions and in their capacity to evaluate their successes. This measurement is, however, lacking in the sport governing bodies from the French speaking Community of Belgium. This paper proposes a model to measure organizational performance by considering objectives distributed among five main dimensions: sport, customer, communication and image, finance and organization, which are measured by quantitative performance indicators. The focus of the paper is on governing bodies of Olympic sport (n = 27) and the model measures their strategic objectives and operational goals. In addition, the priority that the Chairs of 13 Olympic sport governing bodies attach to each dimension and each objective is assessed. Finally, there is a discussion of the comparison of their priorities and their organizational performance, which leads to the identification of four strategic orientations.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Publication date 2010
Journal information "Managing Leisure" - Vol. 15, no. 4, p. 279-307 (2010)
Peer reviewed yes
issn 1360-6719
e-issn 1466-450X
Publication status Publié
Affiliations Louvain School of Management - Strategy and Organisation
UCL - SSH/ILSM/ILSM - Research Institute of Louvain School of Management
UCL - MOTR - Sciences de la motricité
Keywords Organizational performance ; Sport governing bodies ; Management ; 4360
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Bibliographic reference Winand, Mathieu ; Zintz, Thierry ; Bayle, Emmanuel ; Robinson, Leigh. Organizational Performance of Olympic Sport Governing Bodies : Dealing with measurements and priorities. In: Managing Leisure, Vol. 15, no. 4, p. 279-307 (2010)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078/70498