Immunizing Inefficient Field Frames for Mitigating Social Problems
The Institutional Work Behind the Technocratic Antidoping System
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4182250 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H E Meier (0000-0002-5852-4814, University of Münster, corresponding author), Marcel Reinold (University of Münster) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SAGE Open (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2158-2440 • E-ISSN: 2158-2440 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2158244018780954 |
| OpenAlex | W2808166152 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 74 |
Although the heavily expanded technocratic doping test system has failed to detect the most spectacular cases of performance enhancement and to eradicate doping as social problem, it enjoys social fact quality. Research presented here argues that the taken-for-granted character of the technocratic test system represents a prime example of institutional work. The technocratic test system became institutionalized and maintained because the agendas of field actors converged around a field frame, enjoying cultural resonance and, at first, strong pragmatic viability. The specific methods of frame stabilization employed by actors interested in institutional maintenance served to stabilize unrealistic policy expectations. The article aims to support these ideas by analyzing the trajectory of antidoping in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) based on rich archival sources
Epistemology · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Technocracy · Telecommunications · Doping in Sports · Engineering · Law · Public Administration · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
Frontiers in social movement theory
Process-Tracing Methods
The System of Professions
Institutions and Institutional Work
Institutionalization and Structuration
Institutional Work to Maintain Professional Power
Institutional Work
The Cultural Contexts of Collective Action
Introduction
Process Studies of Change in Organization and Management
Ideologically motivated activism
How Actors Change Institutions
Research Strategies for Organizational History
The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Strategic Responses to Institutional Processes
Framing political opportunity
Historical Institutionalism
Dope Hunters
Doping als Konstruktion
An Introduction to Drugs in Sport
The Social Organization of Sports Medicine
The Political Economy of Global Sports Organisations
Fastest, Highest, Strongest
Pay Up and Play the Game
The International Olympic Committee and the Olympic System
Institutional Theories of Organization
A History of British Sports Medicine
Amphetamine and the Four-Minute Mile
Knud Enemark Jensen's Death During the 1960 Rome Olympics
The Emergence of Moral Technopreneurialism in Sport
The International Anti-Doping Movement and Unesco
Sport, Drugs and Amateurism
The Tour de France and the doping issue
Performance Enhancement and Politicisation of High-Performance Sport
Why Lance Armstrong? Historical Context and Key Turning Points in the ‘Cleaning Up’ of Professional Cycling
A History of Drug Use in Sport 1876-1976
The Development of Sports Medicine
Commercialization in Professional Cycling
How are management fashions institutionalized? The role of institutional work
Lords of the Dance
The Iron Cage Revisited
Social movements, field frames and industry emergence
Taking Temporality Seriously
The Establishment of the World Anti-Doping Agency
Historical Sociology and Time
Professionals and field-level change
Framing Processes and Social Movements
What Is Agency
Institutional conditions for diffusion
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |