Conceptualizing employee identification with sport organizations: Sport Employee Identification (SEI) |
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Institution: | 1. Audencia Business School, Department of Management, 95, Rue Falguière, 75015 Paris, France;2. Auckland University of Technology, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland 1020, New Zealand;3. Paris-Sud University, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques of Sports and Physical Activities, Rue de Pierre de Coubertin, 91405 Orsay cedex, France |
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Abstract: | The concepts of organizational identification and team identification have been researched heavily over the last half-century. However, scholars have failed to specifically examine organizational identification among sport employees. We develop a theoretical framework of organizational identification of sport employees, coined Sport Employee Identification (SEI). We conceptualize SEI as an amalgamation of organizational identification and team identification in which sport employees are both external (fans) and internal (employee) members of the sport organization. The development of the SEI model is based on related theory and further ethnographic data are collected over a four-month period within an intercollegiate athletics fundraising department. Implications for scholars and practitioners and avenues for future research are discussed. |
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Keywords: | Organizational identification Organizational behavior Theoretical framework Ethnography |
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