The problem of defining "performance" in non-profit sport organizations : the case of basketball clubs from South-Eastern Europe

Ivašković, Igor (author)

The article examines the problem of ambiguities in the process of measuring the performance in non-profit sports clubs which is one of the main causes for disputes between various stakeholders in the process of determining organizational strategies and strategic objectives. The first objective is to use the non-profit basketball clubs as an example, to describe their specifics from the aspect of organizational performance and to reveal what exactly, beside the financial and sports results, is necessary to take into account for the performance evaluation in these organizations. The second objective is to disclose non-profit sport clubs’ actual strategic orientations. The explorative factor analysis performed on performance estimations of 15 organizational goals was obtained on a sample of 73 non-profit basketball clubs from four South-Eastern European countries. The results indicate two basic strategic orientations of non-profit basketball clubs, namely financial-competitive and non-financial-recreational orientation. The findings may be helpful to clubs’ managements in the process of defining missions and hierarchy of strategic goals for their organizations.

• Language: English
• Keywords: performance, strategy, non-profit organizations, basketball clubs, South-Eastern Europe
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: Str. 70-84
• Numbering: Vol. 26
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-126663
• UDC: 005.3
• ISSN on article: 1840-3255
• DOI: 10.46458/27121097.2020.26.70
• COBISS.SI-ID: 51772931
• Publication date in RUL: 30.04.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Zbornik radova Ekonomskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Mostaru
• Shortened title: Zb. rad. - Sveuč. Most., Ekon. fak.
• Publisher: Ekonomski fakultet, Sveučilište u Mostaru
• ISSN: 1840-3255
• COBISS.SI-ID: 11341596

Secondary language

• Language: Bosnian
• Title: Problem definiranja "uspješnosti" u neprofitnim sportskim organizacijama : primjer košarkaških klubova iz jugoistočne europe

Abstract

Članak istražuje problem nejasnoća u procesu mjerenja uspješnosti u neprofitnim sportskim klubovima što je jedan od glavnih uzroka sporova između različitih dionika u procesu utvrđivanja organizacijskih strategija i strateških ciljeva u tim organizacijama. Prvi je cilj na primjeru neprofitnih košarkaških klubova opisati specifičnosti s aspekta organizacijske uspješnosti i otkriti što je točno, osim financijskih i sportskih rezultata, potrebno uzeti u obzir kod ocjenjivanja uspješnosti u tim organizacijama. Drugi je cilj otkriti stvarne strateške orijentacije neprofitnih sportskih klubova. Provedena je faktorska analiza ocjena uspješnosti na području 15 organizacijskih ciljeva na uzorku od 73 neprofitna košarkaška kluba iz četiri zemlje jugoistočne Europe. Rezultati ukazuju na dvije osnovne strateške orijentacije, a to su financijsko-takmičarska i nefinancijsko-rekreacijska. Rezultati mogu biti od pomoći klupskim upravama kod definiranja organizacijskih poslanstava i opredjeljivanja hijerarhije strateških ciljeva svojih klubova.

• Keywords: uspješnost, strategija, neprofitne organizacije, košarkaški klubovi, jugoistočna Europa, računovodstvo, računovodski izkazi, javno zdravstvo