The COVID-19 countermeasures and the organizational resilience of community-based professional sports teams in a provincial city: A case study of Fagiano Okayama and the Kochi Fighting Dogs

DOI
  • UNO Hiromu
    School of Health and Sports Sciences, Mukogawa Women's University
  • MAEDA Kazunori
    School of Economics and Management, Kochi University of Technology

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Other Title
  • 地方における地域密着型プロスポーツチームによるCOVID-19の対応と組織レジリエンス:ファジアーノ岡山と高知ファイティングドッグスの事例研究

Abstract

Community-based professional sports teams in Japan have played an essential role in regional revitalization. However, teams in provincial cities remain financially unstable and challenging to manage. Furthermore, many of these teams have been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past few years. In the present study, we explored factors that enabled two professional sports teams in a provincial city, Fagiano Okayama (J-League) and the Kochi Fighting Dogs (independent professional baseball league), to successfully maintain their operations despite the challenges faced during the pandemic. We conducted semi-structured interviews with both teams to gather information on their COVID-19 countermeasures and analyzed their organizational resilience. The results revealed that the antecedents of organizational resilience for both teams included “social resources,” “entrepreneurial behavior,” “executive leadership,” “internal communication,” “rapid decision-making mechanism,” “excellent human resources,” “commitment of members,” “optimism and tolerance,” and “support from the league.” We also discovered that team-specific considerations, such as “social resources” (i.e., trust with stakeholders), “entrepreneurial behavior” and “executive leadership” as innovative aspects of management, may be significant for the operational success of professional sports teams in provincial cities.

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  • CRID
    1390862268820774016
  • DOI
    10.24519/jsmpes.370002
  • ISSN
    24323470
    24323462
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
  • Abstract License Flag
    Disallowed

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