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An Anthropological Exploration of the GAA As an Alternative Organisation Glimpsing the alternative: An anthropological exploration of the GAA as an alternative organisation By Noel Connors Submitted for the degree of PhD to the Department of Management & Organisation School of Business Waterford Institute of Technology Author Noel Connors Supervisor Dr Ray Griffin Lecturer in Strategic Management Waterford Institute of Technology Dedication You miss every one of the shots you do not take. My family inspire me to attempt every single one. i Quotes Several broken sticks, two broken heads, and two bruised fingers were part of the afternoon's play, for hurling, the Irish national game is the fastest and probably the most dangerous of sports. It is a combination of hockey, football, golf, baseball, battle and sudden death. It was a real Irish game. Daily Mail - Reporting on a match held in London (1921) The miracle of the GAA is that it works so well despite itself. Paranoia, self-doubt, trenchant conservatism, fear of outside sports and veneration of the past are all key parts of the GAA psyche. In order to love the GAA, you have to swallow these faults whole. Keith Duggan - The Irish Times (2002) ii Abstract We are told ‘There Is No Alternative’. Yet in my life I cannot see the object of my business school education, the black hole from which we cannot seem to escape - the hard-nosed, ruthlessly commercial, amoral joint stock company. Perhaps that is because I am a GAA person, surrounded by an institution since birth that has inhabited my way of thinking about organised life. My thesis sets out to explore the organisation that I am a part of, tethered too, fêted in; and to reconcile this with what I have learned in the business school. As a process I undertook storytelling interviews with club leaders, hired-hand professional experts and the organisations Presidents and leaders to enrich, denaturalise, substantiate my own deeply held convictions about the organisation. This process of journeying into my own organisation was inspired by a phenomenological ontology and an epistemology of social constructionism, which aspires to give an uninterrupted voice to the participants understanding of their time and experiences. It is from this lived experience of organisation life that I build out an understanding of the unique crags of being in the GAA. This sets the scene for a discussion, a show down of sorts, between those from within the business school calling and scouring the earth for alternative ways of organising. This work aspires to contribute to that discourse with a report from strangers in a strange country of another way of doing things, one with a unique approach to kith, kin, blood, care, harmony, leadership and conflict. In this way, I build up a vision of another way of doing things, one that is hopefully of normative and inspiration use to those seeking alternatives. iii Table of Contents Dedication ................................................................................................................................... i Quotes ........................................................................................................................................ ii Abstract ..................................................................................................................................... iii Declaration .............................................................................................................................. viii Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................... ix Table of tables and figures ....................................................................................................... xii Index of Images ........................................................................................................................ xii Glossary of Terms ..................................................................................................................xviii A Religious Occasion ............................................................................................................... xxi Part one .................................................................................................................................... 1.0 Introduction to the study ..................................................................................................... 3 1.1 Emergence of work .............................................................................................................. 5 1.2 The researcher: Noel Connors as an insider (images of the timeline) ................................ 7 1.3 Introduction to data and method ........................................................................................ 9 1.4 Limitations of the study ..................................................................................................... 10 1.5 Relevance of the research: organisations and leadership ................................................. 11 1.6 Alternative Organisations .................................................................................................. 12 1.7 Family in and around organisations ................................................................................... 14 1.8 Leadership .......................................................................................................................... 15 1.9 Structure of the document ................................................................................................ 16 1.10 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................ 17 2.0 How can we say we have seen an organisation? ............................................................... 20 2.1 On knowing my own organisation ..................................................................................... 22 2.2 Explaining the ontology of this work ................................................................................. 24 2.3 The phenomenology of being a researcher ....................................................................... 27 iv 3.0 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 32 3.1 Why Stories ........................................................................................................................ 32 3.2 The rise and mild fall of storytelling in organisation studies ............................................. 34 3.3 Interviewing as story .......................................................................................................... 35 3.4 Understanding stories ........................................................................................................ 38 3.5 Moving towards an analysis ............................................................................................... 39 3.6 Deconstruction ................................................................................................................... 40 3.7 Presenting as stories .......................................................................................................... 42 3.8 The stories and the storytellers ......................................................................................... 43 3.9 Ethics – in theory and in practice ....................................................................................... 44 3.10 Preliminary analysis, drawing out the restories and evolving matters ........................... 45 3.11 Emerging analysis ............................................................................................................. 46 3.12 Secondary sources ........................................................................................................... 48 3.13 The storytellers ................................................................................................................ 49 Club leaders ...................................................................................................................... 49 HQ professionals ............................................................................................................... 52 The Presidents ................................................................................................................... 53 3.14 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................ 54 Part two .................................................................................................................................... 4.0 Introduction to the stories ................................................................................................. 53 4.1 Seeing the spirit and ethic of the GAA ............................................................................... 53 4.2 Scale and boundaries ......................................................................................................... 62 4.3 Perspectives on Time and Sport ........................................................................................ 66 4.4 The greater kinship of GAA life .......................................................................................... 70 4.5 On community leadership.................................................................................................. 74 4.6 Conflict ..............................................................................................................................
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