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Publication date: 22 October 2010

The men from down under: the legacies of Australia II

Holly Henderson and C.M. “Skip” Lissiman OAM

The purpose of this paper is to examine the legacy of Australia II 's victory in the America's Cup in 1983. Achieving sporting success at international events produces a…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine the legacy of Australia II 's victory in the America's Cup in 1983. Achieving sporting success at international events produces a variety of impacts and identities for the sporting nation, the team, and individuals involved in the victory. These impacts differ from sport to sport and are affected by the mechanisms involved in the event (such as the bidding process). What makes these legacies unusual is that they were driven by sporting success, with the right to host and defend the America's Cup being solely dependent on winning the Cup in 1983, rather than a pre‐planned concept from a bidding team or event manager.

Design/methodology/approach

A case study approach is used in this paper, based upon the evaluation of literature in the public domain. This information is enhanced by primary research obtained from the observations of one of the authors as a crew member of Australia II.

Findings

26 years on since Australia II 's success, and the legacy is still flourishing, the ripple effect has not dissipated. The cause and effect of winning the America's Cup has created three legacies, hosting the defence of the America's Cup, the creation of organisations developing participation in the sport of sailing with a growing events portfolio and the establishment of a national sporting identity.

Originality/value

Insights are outlined into the legacies of Australia II through the use of sporting heroes, identity, social capital, community networks and an emerging events management portfolio.

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International Journal of Event and Festival Management, vol. 1 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/17852951011078005
ISSN: 1758-2954

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  • Australia
  • Sporting events
  • National cultures

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Publication date: 12 March 2018

Brand teams and distribution of wealth in Brazilian State Championships

Thadeu Gasparetto, Angel Barajas and Carlos María Fernandez-Jardon

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the demand for tickets in the Brazilian State Championships focussing in the impact generated by the brand teams as well as the…

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The purpose of this paper is to analyse the demand for tickets in the Brazilian State Championships focussing in the impact generated by the brand teams as well as the play-off matches in the demand for tickets and, consequently, in the match day revenues.

Design/methodology/approach

An equations system by three-stage least square estimator is employed. The data set comprises 1,114 matches from Mineiro, Carioca and Paulista Championships over the seasons 2013-2015.

Findings

All explanatory variables increase both attendance and match day revenues. However, the most important goal is the distribution of wealth found. The presence of brand teams in those championships provides a financial aid for smaller teams.

Practical implications

The proposals from the mass media to exclude the brand teams and design those championships exclusively in play-off stages should not be implemented by the policymakers. On the contrary, rearranging the design of the competition with more matches between small teams and brand teams may help to all of them.

Originality/value

The paper contributes to introduce the Brazilian State Championships in the sport economics literature as well as evidences the redistribution effect of wealth among clubs.

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Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, vol. 8 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/SBM-03-2017-0016
ISSN: 2042-678X

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  • Brand teams
  • Brazilian football
  • Match day revenues
  • Redistributive effect
  • State championships

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Publication date: 7 December 2017

The Sports Industry in Brazil

Bárbara Schausteck de Almeida, Juliano de Souza and Wanderley Marchi Júnior

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Sport Business in Leading Economies
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-563-620171003
ISBN: 978-1-78743-564-3

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Publication date: 12 February 2018

Pursues Excellence

Jerry Toomer, Craig Caldwell, Steve Weitzenkorn and Chelsea Clark

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The Catalyst Effect
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-551-320181017
ISBN: 978-1-78743-551-3

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Publication date: 17 September 2020

Visualising Success: The Wisdom of John Wooden

Jim Wishloff

Alasdair MacIntyre’s path-breaking book After Virtue launched him into a place of prominence in social and moral philosophy. Two central, and still relevant, themes are…

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Alasdair MacIntyre’s path-breaking book After Virtue launched him into a place of prominence in social and moral philosophy. Two central, and still relevant, themes are identifiable in the corpus of MacIntyre’s work. First, advanced modernity is in a perilous state because of the philosophical creation of the emotivist self. Second, virtue must be reclaimed if the crisis in moral philosophy is to be addressed and an institutional world worthy of what we are as human beings is to be built. MacIntyre’s heroic effort in this regard is a new presentation of a Thomistic Aristotelianism but he was not naïve about the chances of his project’s success. Emotivism has made it extremely difficult for a virtue perspective to even gain a hearing. MacIntyre proposed a way forward different from abstract theorising. He felt that at this point we could, and had to, learn how to act from accounts of exemplary lives. This chapter presents the wisdom of legendary basketball coach John Wooden as a contribution to aid in the recovery of virtue. The central claim being made is that it is long overdue that John Wooden should take his rightful place in the virtue tradition in ethics. This work gives John Wooden’s conception of leadership that flows from his understanding of virtue the attention it deserves. The examination of John Wooden’s life undertaken bridges virtue theory and leadership. Several other key elements of MacIntyre’s thought set the structure of the inquiry. The chapter begins with a biographical sketch of Wooden’s life because of the stress that MacIntyre places on tradition and narrative unity. The basis of Wooden’s reflection on virtue, the tradition informing his practical reasoning, is a selected canon of Western civilisation, its great literature and the Bible. The Midwestern values of hard work, honesty, faith, and caring for one’s family are also significant. MacIntyre places great emphasis on the need to understand the story of a life and, in particular, the need to understand how development was aided or hindered in childhood and what kind of apprenticeship into a practice was available. The singular influence John Wooden’s father had on his life is documented. The role that John Wooden’s teachers, coaches and mentors played in initiating him into the practice of coaching is reviewed. The experiential base for Wooden’s derivation of his emotionally healthy definition of success and his well thought out conception of the virtues is thus put in place. MacIntyre summarises the teleological structure of human life and the role of virtue in human flourishing by contrasting man-as-he-happens-to-be with man-as-he-should-be-if-he-realised-his-essential-nature. John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success identifies the combination of personal qualities and values, virtues, that fulfil MacIntyre’s second term, that are intrinsic to reaching one’s potential as a person. The 15 qualities Wooden gives – industriousness, enthusiasm, friendship, loyalty, cooperation, self-control, alertness, initiative, intentness, condition, skill, team spirit, poise, confidence, competitive greatness – are defined and illustrated. The rationale for the qualities and for their placement into a coherent whole is discussed. Basic elements of John Wooden’s leadership genius are then brought out. Leaders need to get the culture right, build cohesive teams, and be guided by a moral topline.

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War, Peace and Organizational Ethics
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-209620200000023005
ISBN: 978-1-83982-777-8

Keywords

  • John Wooden
  • wisdom
  • leadership
  • virtue
  • love
  • team building

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Publication date: 4 July 2013

‘A Reservation Hero is a Hero Forever’: Basketball, Irony, and Humor in the Novels of James Welch, Sherman Alexie, and Stephen Graham Jones

Billy J. Stratton

Purpose – This chapter attempts to provide a literary analysis of the various ways in which the importance of basketball in North American Native culture…

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Purpose – This chapter attempts to provide a literary analysis of the various ways in which the importance of basketball in North American Native culture has been represented in literature produced by three Native American authors: James Welch, Stephen Graham Jones, and Sherman Alexie.

Design/methodology/approach – The foundation of this study is derived from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s account of his experiences as a coach of Apache players in Arizona in A Season on The Reservation, and the example of Shoni Schimmel, from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, who is featured in the documentary, Off the Rez. These documentary accounts are supplemented by a critical apparatus drawn from the ideas of the Anishinaabe critic, Gerald Vizenor.

Findings – The character of the Native basketball star functions as a complex signifier that resists Western conceptions of individual achievement and success in favor of Native conceptions of community and cultural survivance.

Research limitations/implications – The limitations of literary analysis stem from the engagement with a body of Native literature that is by no means comprehensive. In addition, the views expressed by each writer are necessarily punctuated by narrative ambiguity and indeterminacy.

Originality/value – The chapter provides a unique introduction to the motif of basketball in contemporary Native American fiction and the storytelling practices from which meaning emerges. The analysis of the works addressed highlights a Native-centered interpretive approach that reveals the complex meaning of basketball in Native American society. The use of this culturally responsive critical paradigm allows readers to approach Native literary achievement on its own terms, rather than from the perspective of the dominant culture.

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Native Games: Indigenous Peoples and Sports in the Post-Colonial World
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1476-2854(2013)0000007007
ISBN: 978-1-78190-592-0

Keywords

  • Basketball
  • humor
  • irony
  • storytelling
  • survivance
  • tragedy

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Publication date: 10 May 2017

“Letting Kids Be Kids”: Youth Voice and Activism to Reform Foster Care and Promote “Normalcy”☆

Bernard P. Perlmutter

In this chapter, I examine stories that foster care youth tell to legislatures, courts, policymakers, and the public to influence policy decisions. The stories told by…

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In this chapter, I examine stories that foster care youth tell to legislatures, courts, policymakers, and the public to influence policy decisions. The stories told by these children are analogized to victim truth testimony, analyzed as a therapeutic, procedural, and developmental process, and examined as a catalyst for systemic accountability and change. Youth stories take different forms and appear in different media: testimony in legislatures, courts, research surveys or studies; opinion editorials and interviews in newspapers or blog posts; digital stories on YouTube; and artistic expression. Lawyers often serve as conduits for youth storytelling, translating their clients’ stories to the public. Organized advocacy by youth also informs and animates policy development. One recent example fosters youth organizing to promote “normalcy” in child welfare practices in Florida, and in related federal legislation.

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Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1059-433720170000072005
ISBN: 978-1-78714-344-9

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  • Foster care
  • youth voice
  • storytelling
  • normalcy
  • child welfare

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Publication date: 17 May 2012

This Really isn’t About me: Reflections on an Intellectual and Activist Path

John Myrton Johnson

Reflecting on the contingencies and felicitous moments of life and career, a senior scholar celebrates the intellectual community and friends that inspired and sustained…

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Reflecting on the contingencies and felicitous moments of life and career, a senior scholar celebrates the intellectual community and friends that inspired and sustained his efforts.

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Blue-Ribbon Papers: Behind the Professional Mask: The Autobiographies of Leading Symbolic Interactionists
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-2396(2012)0000038011
ISBN: 978-1-78052-747-5

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Publication date: 15 October 2013

On becoming a university president: a latino perspective

Ricardo Romo

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Latino College Presidents: In Their Own Words
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-3644(2013)0000013017
ISBN: 978-1-78350-142-7

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Article
Publication date: 1 March 1999

Sex, lies, and Hollywood’s administrators: The (de)construction of school leadership in contemporary films

Penny Smith

The author argues that messages about educational administrators found in contemporary films both shape and limit popular discourse about schools and their mission. Of…

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The author argues that messages about educational administrators found in contemporary films both shape and limit popular discourse about schools and their mission. Of particular importance is the dissonance between the celluloid images created by Hollywood and the complex and challenging realities found in our own communities. Based on a textual analysis of 28 recent productions, she argues that practitioners would do well to attend popular culture representations and to consider the ways in which mass media shape policy debates about public institutions and appropriate administrative behavior.

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Journal of Educational Administration, vol. 37 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/09578239910253935
ISSN: 0957-8234

Keywords

  • Administrators
  • Gender
  • Leadership
  • Mass media
  • Perceptions
  • Popular culture
  • School films
  • Schools

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