The organization of club football in Denmark - a contemporary profile
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The organization of club football in Denmark - a contemporary profile. / Bennike, Søren; Storm, Rasmus K; Wikman, Johan Michael; Ottesen, Laila.
I: Soccer and Society, Bind 21, Nr. 5, 2020, s. 551-571.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - The organization of club football in Denmark - a contemporary profile
AU - Bennike, Søren
AU - Storm, Rasmus K
AU - Wikman, Johan Michael
AU - Ottesen, Laila
N1 - CURIS 2020 NEXS 194
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This article provides an understanding of the organization of Danish club football, including both grassroots and professional activities. We do this by analysing how it has developed and how it relates to four basic social orders viewed as ideal types; civil society, market, state and associations. Our study is grounded in document analysis, a questionnaire survey and existing knowledge of sports clubs and, in particular, football clubs. Our findings show how Danish football is a game that operates between these social orders. We highlight four unique traits: firstly, the existence of an overall formal, bureaucratic, non-profit, rather autonomous associative decentral democratic structure; secondly, a high number of non-profit, democratically organized grassroots clubs of different sizes spread around the country; thirdly, late professionalism; and fourthly, the creation of a certain business model of professional Danish football.
AB - This article provides an understanding of the organization of Danish club football, including both grassroots and professional activities. We do this by analysing how it has developed and how it relates to four basic social orders viewed as ideal types; civil society, market, state and associations. Our study is grounded in document analysis, a questionnaire survey and existing knowledge of sports clubs and, in particular, football clubs. Our findings show how Danish football is a game that operates between these social orders. We highlight four unique traits: firstly, the existence of an overall formal, bureaucratic, non-profit, rather autonomous associative decentral democratic structure; secondly, a high number of non-profit, democratically organized grassroots clubs of different sizes spread around the country; thirdly, late professionalism; and fourthly, the creation of a certain business model of professional Danish football.
U2 - 10.1080/14660970.2019.1690472
DO - 10.1080/14660970.2019.1690472
M3 - Journal article
VL - 21
SP - 551
EP - 571
JO - Soccer and Society
JF - Soccer and Society
SN - 1466-0970
IS - 5
ER -
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