Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-10-2017
Abstract
The sports industry often experiences critical, high-risk situations related to crisis management decisions. Devastating consequences often occur because of the methods used by sports leaders in processing information associated with crisis. As chaotic as these crisis-based events may be; often times the true antecedents of crisis result from practices and processes that exist within, not outside of, sports organizations. Despite the global economic impact and increasing significance of sports, there is a shortage of empirical research to help us understand key influences on industry leaders, specifically related to times of crisis. The factors that impact the formation of perspectives and the processing of information by sports leaders (executives, coaches, entrepreneurs) related to crisis are of central concern in my study. My research findings help us better understand the stressful environment within which sports leaders operate, the festering nature of crisis in sports, and how sports leaders deal with the critical aspects of these phenomena. My findings also indicate that many sports leaders respond to critical, high-risk situations by adopting behaviors that foster, not manage, crisis.
Keywords
sports executivers, work environment, Weatherhead School of Management, sports, sports leaders, crisis, sensemaking, self-preservation, decision-making
Rights
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Creative Commons License
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Department/Center
Design & Innovation
Recommended Citation
Jones, Daryl L., "Sports Leaders, Sensemaking, and Self-Preservation: Uncovering the Real Crisis in Sport" (2017). Student Scholarship. 397.
https://commons.case.edu/studentworks/397