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Strategic Change in Response to an Environmental Jolt: Rugby and the Olympic Games Author Corbett, Benjamin Dawes Published 2016 Thesis Type Thesis (PhD Doctorate) School Griffith Business School DOI https://doi.org/10.25904/1912/928 Copyright Statement The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise. Downloaded from http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365659 Griffith Research Online https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au Griffith Business School Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Benjamin Dawes Corbett May 2015 i Strategic Change in Response to an Environmental Jolt: Rugby and the Olympic Games Benjamin Dawes Corbett B.S. (Brigham Young University) M.B.A. (Arizona State University) Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management Griffith Business School Griffith University Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy May 2015 ii ABSTRACT The sport management field is relatively new, but there are now over one thousand sport management programs in universities around the world. This ubiquity spawned Chalip’s (2006) call for sport management to become a distinct and legitimate academic discipline. Sport management has borrowed theory and models from a range of disciplines including health sciences, psychology, management, economics, and communications. Rightly, those are well-established, highly credible disciplines. However, a prominent way to advance any academic discipline is through theory development. This thesis introduces a new model, the Integrated Change Model (ICM), which collaborates and extends sport management research in organisational design, organisational change, and institutional theory as a contribution to the theoretical base of sport management.
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