Welcome to the neighbourhood: The spatial dimensions of legitimacy for voluntary leisure organisations

Floris Vermeulen, Joran Laméris and Debra Minkoff
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Floris Vermeulen: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Joran Laméris: Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Debra Minkoff: Columbia University, USA

Urban Studies, 2016, vol. 53, issue 11, 2253-2272

Abstract: With an understanding that organisations in a city are spatially located and that the geographical distribution of their resources is uneven, this paper examines how neighbourhood characteristics affect the spatial dimension of one basic resource in particular: organisational legitimacy. Specifically, we investigate how the presence of immigrants, the presence of youth and the degree of residential mobility in a neighbourhood may influence collective frames among its residents on what constitutes appropriate and suitable organisational forms. Employing multilevel analysis on data about the voluntary leisure organisations of immigrants in Amsterdam during three periods of time, we consider whether these neighbourhood characteristics do indeed have an impact on the number of organisations to be found and on their vitality. We conclude that an immigrant presence reduces the spatial dimension of organisational legitimacy, which consequently decreases organisational density and survival rates; a youth presence has the opposite effect; and the degree of residential mobility has no significant effect.

Keywords: Amsterdam; immigrants; leisure organisations; neighbourhood; organisational legitimacy; youth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098015590771

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