A study of organizational effectiveness for national olympic sporting organizations

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-38

  Shilbury, David ^a,b   Moore, Kathleen A ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Department of Sport Management ^*

Author keywords

Competing values; National sporting organizations; Organizational effectiveness; Professionalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745138171     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764005279512     Document Type: Article

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