 Conceptualizing employee identification with sport organizations: Sport Employee Identification (SEI)Brent D. Oja, Jordan R. Bass and Brian S. Gordon Sport Management Review, 2015, vol. 18, issue 4, 583-595 Abstract: •We propose an organizational identification model for sport employees.•The theoretical model is based on past studies and ethnographic data.•Three antecedent categories are posited to influence Sport Employee Identification.•Meets the call from scholars arguing for additional sport specific constructs.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. Date: 2015 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:rsmrxx:v:18:y:2015:i:4:p:583-595 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1016/j.smr.2015.02.002 Access Statistics for this article Sport Management Review is currently edited by Sheranne Fairley More articles in Sport Management Review from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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