Josef Fahlén
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4151555 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Josef Fahlén |
| PRENOMES | Josef |
| SOBRENOME | Fahlén |
| ASSINATURA | FAHLÉN J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Umeå University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2745-4841 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Paid work in voluntary sport clubs
This study unpacks the conditions for, characteristics of, and consequences of employed ‘background’ work/ers in grassroots sport. Contrary to existing knowledge on ‘off-field’ sport staff, it applies an organisational sociology lens to address paid work as a basic yet neglected form of professionalisation. Drawing on institutional role theory and semi-structured interviews with sport club staff, we show the distinctiveness of paid work in otherw…
Willingness of voluntary sports clubs to implement integration programmes – A construction of organisational identity ideal types
Integration of migrants is currently among the most relevant political issues in Western societies. In this context, voluntary sport clubs (VSCs) have been granted substantial trust to bring people together in joint sport activities. However, despite ambitious programmes launched by public authorities and/, or sport federations, a relatively small proportion of VSCs engage with such targeted initiatives. The existing literature provides explanati…
Developing athletes into cooperative learners
Talent development environments are usually group-based, meaning athletes comprise each other’s learning context. Consequently, athletes’ ability to learn with and from each other is essential. This implies that there is a key role for coaches to play in cultivating reciprocal, cooperative athletes and creating talent environments in which participants can ‘learn to learn’. The aim of this study was to create knowledge on day-to-day coaching cond…
Sport integrity systems’ organizational footprint
The purpose of this paper is to explore the typifications surrounding the emerging Integrity Officer role, and to discuss the potential side-effects of the ways in which integrity measures are shaped and implemented. Drawing on 31 semi-structured interviews with Integrity Officer role incumbents and staff in direct interaction with this role, our analysis shows how the typification of the role is characterised by three contextually shaped contrad…
Being second among the second
This article reports on a study investigating the struggle for influence in an Indigenous community. With an eye on the potential further subordination on certain subgroups, we studied how Sámi sports club officials outside Sámi core areas perceive their relationship with clubs in core Sámi areas and the federative Sámi sports organization. Methodologically, we performed interviews with representatives of Indigenous sports clubs and employed Bour…
(Re)Asserting organization as a lens in sport sociology
The purpose of this article is to (re)assert the importance of an organizational lens in the socio-cultural study of sport. Specifically, we aim to demonstrate the often self-perpetuating and always value-infused nature of rational design, and the organizational processes through which problems, objectives, structures, roles, identities, and knowledges are (re)constituted and privileged in the context of sport. Drawing on an institutional underst…
Structural and Cultural Othering
The purpose of this article is to examine the role played by organizational culture in young people’s continuing underrepresentation in decision-making bodies, despite structural changes, in the context of Norwegian sport organizations. Data is based on a questionnaire centred on the experiences of young people in sport governance ( n = 32 youth representatives) and semi-structured interviews with young (under 26 years) and older representatives …
The art of balance
The governance of Indigenous people is in many contexts a combination of political ambitions to promote self-governance, and more traditional policies and governance practices. These combinations often carry unintended contradictions and exclusionary processes. In this article, we investigate the consequences of one such contradiction: the aspiration for self-determination and self-governance on the one hand and the aspiration for broader politic…
Private football academies—friend or foe? An analysis of Norwegian media's framing of arguments about private football academies and the monopoly of organized sport
Private football academies challenge the monopoly of Norwegian voluntary and democratic sport. Using field theory and framing approach as analytical perspectives, this article presents a media analysis that reveals that, first, association football and private academies agree on the fact that Norwegian football is not good enough and must improve. Second, they disagree on whether to improve it within association football exclusively or supplement…
The meaning of democracy in an era of good governance
Contemporary sport governance contexts are marked by a trend towards efficiency-based board composition and an increasing use of instruments aimed to (re)shape boards. Yet, democratic governance is integral to many countries' sport systems, and research tells us that representation still matters in sport governance. Considering this, the aim with this paper is to provide researchers and practitioners with a vocabulary to understand and address is…
Lack of) government policy for indigenous (Sámi) sport
While colonization as policy is formally a historic phenomenon in Norway and elsewhere, many former structures of state organization - including their relationship to sport - remain under post-colonial conditions. This paper is concerned with how the Norwegian government contributes to creating a situation, which includes the Norwegian sports confederation (NIF) but excludes the indigenous people Sámi's sports organisation. Based on existing data…
Why do some papers get desk rejected from the European Journal for Sport and Society
Contains fulltext : 241715.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access
Sport club consultants as street-level bureaucrats in sport policy processes
The focus of this paper is sport club consultants, an under-researched role that is uniquely situated at the interface of sport policy systems and clubs. Incumbents of this role—the label of which varies between countries—conduct club-directed developmental work to align clubs with centrally issued policies and programmes. Conceptualising sport club consultants as a sport-specific street-level bureaucrat, the paper’s purpose is, first, to analyse…
Sport in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic
These are extraordinary times. Less because we are currently in the midst of a global pandemic; \nhumanity has been here multiple times in the past, sometimes with even more devastating \nresults (the ‘Black Death’ of 1346–1353, or Cocolitzli Epidemics in the 16th \nCentury, for example). Rather, these are extraordinary times due to both the huge shutting \ndown of industry, travel and borders, and the enormous level of coverage and discussion \n…
The corporal dimension of sports-based interventions
The aim of this paper is to show how the corporal character of activities commonly provided in sports-based policy interventions has implications for the results of policy implementation. By employing the theoretical concepts of embedded expectations and embodied knowledge, this paper examines how expectations embedded in such activities interact with experiences embodied by the participants and combine in availing or restricting the possibilitie…
Same same, but different? Exploring the organizational identities of Swedish voluntary sports
The aim of this study is to contribute to the ongoing discussion of sports clubs' propensity to act as policy implementers. Theoretically, we conceptualize this propensity as contingent on an alignment between a sports club's organizational identity and the cultural material, that is, ends and means of a given policy. Building on data from short, qualitative interviews with representatives of 218 randomly selected sports clubs, we construct 10 or…
Managing Sport for Public Health
In the area of public health, civil society involvement in attaining government objectives on physical activity participation is often carried out by voluntary sport organizations (Agergaard & Michelsen la Cour, 2012; Österlind & Wright, 2014; Skille, 2009; Theeboom, Haudenhuyse, & De Knop, 2010). In Sweden, this responsibility has been given to the Swedish Sport Confederation (SSC), a voluntary and membership-based non-profit organization, grant…
More of the same instead of qualitative leaps
Between 2007 and 2011, the Swedish government added 50 million Euro per year to the budget of the Swedish Sports Confederation (RF) for a Sports for All programme (SfA), Idrottslyftet (The Lift for Sport), with the aim of engaging more children and youth, especially those from underrepresented groups. The programme manifesto stated that all activities should be based on gender and equality perspectives and be permeated by the regular RF policy pr…
Urgent expectations and silenced knowledge On spontaneous sport space as public health promoter and sport stimulator
This paper takes its departure in a nation-wide program for redesigning schoolyards and public spaces to stimulate self-organised physical activity among children and teenagers in Sweden. The purpose of the study was to explore if and how a redesigned schoolyard can promote physical activity among the pupils at the school during the school day. Findings are based on data from 29 interviews, 948 questionnaires and 9 observations at a secondary sch…
The order of logics in Swedish sport – feeding the hungry beast of result orientation and commercialization
The purpose of this study was to analyse the dominant logics (Bettis & Pralahad, 1995) that set the stage for the Swedish sports movement. The study was made within the conceptual framework of institutional theory (DiMaggio & Powell, 1983) and the concept of design archetypes (Greenwood & Hinings, 1988). Data were collected using semi-structured interviews with six respondents representing six Swedish voluntary sports clubs. The results reveal a …
Money talks – A qualitative analysis of the organizational change connected with the corporation formation of a voluntary sport club / Money talks – Eine qualitative Analyse des organisationalen Wande…
The purpose of this study was to illustrate and analyze the organizational change the Swedish voluntary sports club IF Björklöven went through in connection with the corporation formation of its representative team. The study was made with institutional theory as a theoretical frame of reference. Particularly important for the shaping of the study was a theoretical model by Greenwood and Hinings (1996). The data was collected using semi-structure…
Organizational Structures of Swedish Elite Ice Hockey Clubs / Organisationsstrukturen von Schwedischen Spitzenclubs im Eishockey
This paper reports on an analysis of organizational structures in Swedish elite ice hockey and is concerned with the organization at club level, its similarities and differences with regard to the clubs’ structural dimensions: specialization, standardization and centralization. Findings are based on structured interviews with the general managers of 11 clubs represented in the Swedish elite league (the first division) and on official and unoffici…
Sport in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic
These are extraordinary times. Less because we are currently in the midst of a global pandemic; \nhumanity has been here multiple times in the past, sometimes with even more devastating \nresults (the ‘Black Death’ of 1346–1353, or Cocolitzli Epidemics in the 16th \nCentury, for example). Rather, these are extraordinary times due to both the huge shutting \ndown of industry, travel and borders, and the enormous level of coverage and discussion \n…
The order of logics in Swedish sport – feeding the hungry beast of result orientation and commercialization
The purpose of this study was to analyse the dominant logics (Bettis & Pralahad, 1995) that set the stage for the Swedish sports movement. The study was made within the conceptual framework of institutional theory (DiMaggio & Powell, 1983) and the concept of design archetypes (Greenwood & Hinings, 1988). Data were collected using semi-structured interviews with six respondents representing six Swedish voluntary sports clubs. The results reveal a …
Same same, but different? Exploring the organizational identities of Swedish voluntary sports
The aim of this study is to contribute to the ongoing discussion of sports clubs' propensity to act as policy implementers. Theoretically, we conceptualize this propensity as contingent on an alignment between a sports club's organizational identity and the cultural material, that is, ends and means of a given policy. Building on data from short, qualitative interviews with representatives of 218 randomly selected sports clubs, we construct 10 or…
More of the same instead of qualitative leaps
Between 2007 and 2011, the Swedish government added 50 million Euro per year to the budget of the Swedish Sports Confederation (RF) for a Sports for All programme (SfA), Idrottslyftet (The Lift for Sport), with the aim of engaging more children and youth, especially those from underrepresented groups. The programme manifesto stated that all activities should be based on gender and equality perspectives and be permeated by the regular RF policy pr…
Sport club consultants as street-level bureaucrats in sport policy processes
The focus of this paper is sport club consultants, an under-researched role that is uniquely situated at the interface of sport policy systems and clubs. Incumbents of this role—the label of which varies between countries—conduct club-directed developmental work to align clubs with centrally issued policies and programmes. Conceptualising sport club consultants as a sport-specific street-level bureaucrat, the paper’s purpose is, first, to analyse…
The meaning of democracy in an era of good governance
Contemporary sport governance contexts are marked by a trend towards efficiency-based board composition and an increasing use of instruments aimed to (re)shape boards. Yet, democratic governance is integral to many countries' sport systems, and research tells us that representation still matters in sport governance. Considering this, the aim with this paper is to provide researchers and practitioners with a vocabulary to understand and address is…
Urgent expectations and silenced knowledge On spontaneous sport space as public health promoter and sport stimulator
This paper takes its departure in a nation-wide program for redesigning schoolyards and public spaces to stimulate self-organised physical activity among children and teenagers in Sweden. The purpose of the study was to explore if and how a redesigned schoolyard can promote physical activity among the pupils at the school during the school day. Findings are based on data from 29 interviews, 948 questionnaires and 9 observations at a secondary sch…
The corporal dimension of sports-based interventions
The aim of this paper is to show how the corporal character of activities commonly provided in sports-based policy interventions has implications for the results of policy implementation. By employing the theoretical concepts of embedded expectations and embodied knowledge, this paper examines how expectations embedded in such activities interact with experiences embodied by the participants and combine in availing or restricting the possibilitie…
Lack of) government policy for indigenous (Sámi) sport
While colonization as policy is formally a historic phenomenon in Norway and elsewhere, many former structures of state organization - including their relationship to sport - remain under post-colonial conditions. This paper is concerned with how the Norwegian government contributes to creating a situation, which includes the Norwegian sports confederation (NIF) but excludes the indigenous people Sámi's sports organisation. Based on existing data…
Managing Sport for Public Health
In the area of public health, civil society involvement in attaining government objectives on physical activity participation is often carried out by voluntary sport organizations (Agergaard & Michelsen la Cour, 2012; Österlind & Wright, 2014; Skille, 2009; Theeboom, Haudenhuyse, & De Knop, 2010). In Sweden, this responsibility has been given to the Swedish Sport Confederation (SSC), a voluntary and membership-based non-profit organization, grant…
Sport integrity systems’ organizational footprint
The purpose of this paper is to explore the typifications surrounding the emerging Integrity Officer role, and to discuss the potential side-effects of the ways in which integrity measures are shaped and implemented. Drawing on 31 semi-structured interviews with Integrity Officer role incumbents and staff in direct interaction with this role, our analysis shows how the typification of the role is characterised by three contextually shaped contrad…
(Re)Asserting organization as a lens in sport sociology
The purpose of this article is to (re)assert the importance of an organizational lens in the socio-cultural study of sport. Specifically, we aim to demonstrate the often self-perpetuating and always value-infused nature of rational design, and the organizational processes through which problems, objectives, structures, roles, identities, and knowledges are (re)constituted and privileged in the context of sport. Drawing on an institutional underst…
Organizational Structures of Swedish Elite Ice Hockey Clubs / Organisationsstrukturen von Schwedischen Spitzenclubs im Eishockey
This paper reports on an analysis of organizational structures in Swedish elite ice hockey and is concerned with the organization at club level, its similarities and differences with regard to the clubs’ structural dimensions: specialization, standardization and centralization. Findings are based on structured interviews with the general managers of 11 clubs represented in the Swedish elite league (the first division) and on official and unoffici…
Money talks – A qualitative analysis of the organizational change connected with the corporation formation of a voluntary sport club / Money talks – Eine qualitative Analyse des organisationalen Wande…
The purpose of this study was to illustrate and analyze the organizational change the Swedish voluntary sports club IF Björklöven went through in connection with the corporation formation of its representative team. The study was made with institutional theory as a theoretical frame of reference. Particularly important for the shaping of the study was a theoretical model by Greenwood and Hinings (1996). The data was collected using semi-structure…
The order of logics in Swedish sport – feeding the hungry beast of result orientation and commercialization
The purpose of this study was to analyse the dominant logics (Bettis & Pralahad, 1995) that set the stage for the Swedish sports movement. The study was made within the conceptual framework of institutional theory (DiMaggio & Powell, 1983) and the concept of design archetypes (Greenwood & Hinings, 1988). Data were collected using semi-structured interviews with six respondents representing six Swedish voluntary sports clubs. The results reveal a …
Urgent expectations and silenced knowledge On spontaneous sport space as public health promoter and sport stimulator
This paper takes its departure in a nation-wide program for redesigning schoolyards and public spaces to stimulate self-organised physical activity among children and teenagers in Sweden. The purpose of the study was to explore if and how a redesigned schoolyard can promote physical activity among the pupils at the school during the school day. Findings are based on data from 29 interviews, 948 questionnaires and 9 observations at a secondary sch…
More of the same instead of qualitative leaps
Between 2007 and 2011, the Swedish government added 50 million Euro per year to the budget of the Swedish Sports Confederation (RF) for a Sports for All programme (SfA), Idrottslyftet (The Lift for Sport), with the aim of engaging more children and youth, especially those from underrepresented groups. The programme manifesto stated that all activities should be based on gender and equality perspectives and be permeated by the regular RF policy pr…
Managing Sport for Public Health
In the area of public health, civil society involvement in attaining government objectives on physical activity participation is often carried out by voluntary sport organizations (Agergaard & Michelsen la Cour, 2012; Österlind & Wright, 2014; Skille, 2009; Theeboom, Haudenhuyse, & De Knop, 2010). In Sweden, this responsibility has been given to the Swedish Sport Confederation (SSC), a voluntary and membership-based non-profit organization, grant…
Same same, but different? Exploring the organizational identities of Swedish voluntary sports
The aim of this study is to contribute to the ongoing discussion of sports clubs' propensity to act as policy implementers. Theoretically, we conceptualize this propensity as contingent on an alignment between a sports club's organizational identity and the cultural material, that is, ends and means of a given policy. Building on data from short, qualitative interviews with representatives of 218 randomly selected sports clubs, we construct 10 or…
The corporal dimension of sports-based interventions
The aim of this paper is to show how the corporal character of activities commonly provided in sports-based policy interventions has implications for the results of policy implementation. By employing the theoretical concepts of embedded expectations and embodied knowledge, this paper examines how expectations embedded in such activities interact with experiences embodied by the participants and combine in availing or restricting the possibilitie…
Sport in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic
These are extraordinary times. Less because we are currently in the midst of a global pandemic; \nhumanity has been here multiple times in the past, sometimes with even more devastating \nresults (the ‘Black Death’ of 1346–1353, or Cocolitzli Epidemics in the 16th \nCentury, for example). Rather, these are extraordinary times due to both the huge shutting \ndown of industry, travel and borders, and the enormous level of coverage and discussion \n…
Why do some papers get desk rejected from the European Journal for Sport and Society
Contains fulltext : 241715.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access
Sport club consultants as street-level bureaucrats in sport policy processes
The focus of this paper is sport club consultants, an under-researched role that is uniquely situated at the interface of sport policy systems and clubs. Incumbents of this role—the label of which varies between countries—conduct club-directed developmental work to align clubs with centrally issued policies and programmes. Conceptualising sport club consultants as a sport-specific street-level bureaucrat, the paper’s purpose is, first, to analyse…
Lack of) government policy for indigenous (Sámi) sport
While colonization as policy is formally a historic phenomenon in Norway and elsewhere, many former structures of state organization - including their relationship to sport - remain under post-colonial conditions. This paper is concerned with how the Norwegian government contributes to creating a situation, which includes the Norwegian sports confederation (NIF) but excludes the indigenous people Sámi's sports organisation. Based on existing data…
Private football academies—friend or foe? An analysis of Norwegian media's framing of arguments about private football academies and the monopoly of organized sport
Private football academies challenge the monopoly of Norwegian voluntary and democratic sport. Using field theory and framing approach as analytical perspectives, this article presents a media analysis that reveals that, first, association football and private academies agree on the fact that Norwegian football is not good enough and must improve. Second, they disagree on whether to improve it within association football exclusively or supplement…
The meaning of democracy in an era of good governance
Contemporary sport governance contexts are marked by a trend towards efficiency-based board composition and an increasing use of instruments aimed to (re)shape boards. Yet, democratic governance is integral to many countries' sport systems, and research tells us that representation still matters in sport governance. Considering this, the aim with this paper is to provide researchers and practitioners with a vocabulary to understand and address is…
Structural and Cultural Othering
The purpose of this article is to examine the role played by organizational culture in young people’s continuing underrepresentation in decision-making bodies, despite structural changes, in the context of Norwegian sport organizations. Data is based on a questionnaire centred on the experiences of young people in sport governance ( n = 32 youth representatives) and semi-structured interviews with young (under 26 years) and older representatives …
The art of balance
The governance of Indigenous people is in many contexts a combination of political ambitions to promote self-governance, and more traditional policies and governance practices. These combinations often carry unintended contradictions and exclusionary processes. In this article, we investigate the consequences of one such contradiction: the aspiration for self-determination and self-governance on the one hand and the aspiration for broader politic…
Developing athletes into cooperative learners
Talent development environments are usually group-based, meaning athletes comprise each other’s learning context. Consequently, athletes’ ability to learn with and from each other is essential. This implies that there is a key role for coaches to play in cultivating reciprocal, cooperative athletes and creating talent environments in which participants can ‘learn to learn’. The aim of this study was to create knowledge on day-to-day coaching cond…
Sport integrity systems’ organizational footprint
The purpose of this paper is to explore the typifications surrounding the emerging Integrity Officer role, and to discuss the potential side-effects of the ways in which integrity measures are shaped and implemented. Drawing on 31 semi-structured interviews with Integrity Officer role incumbents and staff in direct interaction with this role, our analysis shows how the typification of the role is characterised by three contextually shaped contrad…
Being second among the second
This article reports on a study investigating the struggle for influence in an Indigenous community. With an eye on the potential further subordination on certain subgroups, we studied how Sámi sports club officials outside Sámi core areas perceive their relationship with clubs in core Sámi areas and the federative Sámi sports organization. Methodologically, we performed interviews with representatives of Indigenous sports clubs and employed Bour…
(Re)Asserting organization as a lens in sport sociology
The purpose of this article is to (re)assert the importance of an organizational lens in the socio-cultural study of sport. Specifically, we aim to demonstrate the often self-perpetuating and always value-infused nature of rational design, and the organizational processes through which problems, objectives, structures, roles, identities, and knowledges are (re)constituted and privileged in the context of sport. Drawing on an institutional underst…
Paid work in voluntary sport clubs
This study unpacks the conditions for, characteristics of, and consequences of employed ‘background’ work/ers in grassroots sport. Contrary to existing knowledge on ‘off-field’ sport staff, it applies an organisational sociology lens to address paid work as a basic yet neglected form of professionalisation. Drawing on institutional role theory and semi-structured interviews with sport club staff, we show the distinctiveness of paid work in otherw…
Willingness of voluntary sports clubs to implement integration programmes – A construction of organisational identity ideal types
Integration of migrants is currently among the most relevant political issues in Western societies. In this context, voluntary sport clubs (VSCs) have been granted substantial trust to bring people together in joint sport activities. However, despite ambitious programmes launched by public authorities and/, or sport federations, a relatively small proportion of VSCs engage with such targeted initiatives. The existing literature provides explanati…
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