Embedded Multi-Level Leadership in Elite Sport

This book represents an alternative perspective on international elite sport systems. It focusses on the embedded multi-level nature of leadership, and the scope that this might give for degrees of leadership autonomy and discretion.

Svein S. Andersen is Professor of organization studies at Oslo Business School, Norway. He has been an adjunct professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences and involved in the Elite Coach Program at the Norwegian elite sport organization, Olympiatoppen. Per Øystein Hansen is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Sport and Physical Education at Norway Inland University of Applied Sciences, and Associate Professor II at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. His research interest is primarily leadership of elite sports and values in sport organizations. Barrie Houlihan is Emeritus Professor of Sport Policy at Loughborough University, UK and Visiting Professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. He was launch Editor of the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics.

1. Embedded Multi-Level Leadership in Diverse Elite Sport Systems, 2. Leadership in Elite Sport: Normative Tensions and Ethical Decision Making, 3. The Political and Governance Context, 4. The Commercial Context, 5. Multi-Level Leadership in Russian Elite Sport, 6. A Multi-Level Analysis of the Transformational Leadership During the 2015 Chinese Football Reform, 7. Leading and Organizing German Elite Biathlon, 8. Multilevel Leadership within the Swiss Elite Sports System: The Involvement of Alpine Skiing Elite Athletes in National-Level Policy-Making, 9. Leading for Success in Danish and Norwegian National Team Handball, 10. Investigating Shared Leadership in Elite Sport: A Social Network Study of USA Rugby 7s, 11. USA and Leadership in Elite Ice Hockey, 12. Football Leadership and Public Value in Ghana, 13. Embedded Multi-Level Leadership in a Diverse World