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A History of Organizational Change The case of Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), 1946–2020




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Genere:Libro
Lingua: Inglese
Pubblicazione: 07/2021
Edizione: 1st ed. 2020





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This book is the first independent exploration of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile’s (FIA) institutional history. Virtually unexamined compared with similar institutions like the FIFA and the IOC, the FIA has nevertheless changed from being a small association in 1904 to becoming one of the world’s most influential sport governing bodies. Through chronologically organised chapters, this book explains how the FIA manages to link together motorsport circuses like Formula 1 with the automotive industry and societal issues like road safety and environmental sustainability. In an exciting narrative spanning seven decades, it reviews the FIA’s organisational turning points, governing controversies, political dramas and sporting tragedies.

Considering the FIA to be a unique type of hybrid organisation characterised by what the author calls ‘organisational emulsion’, this case study contains theoretical innovations relevant to other studies of sport governing bodies.  It makes an empirically grounded contribution to the research fields of institutional logics, historical sociology and sport governance.






Sommario

Chapter 1: Introduction – the FIA, and the analytical framework

 

Less known than the FIFA and the IOC, the FIA nevertheless share with them several characteristics as an organisation. To provide the reader with an introduction to the FIA and its reach, and to this project as a whole, chapter one will address the current state of the FIA and why a book like this is a contribution to this field. Existing literature about the FIA and its place in the landscape of ISAs will be reviewed, and the research framework, data and methods, which this book builds upon, will be unfolded. First, I will provide a backdrop of the formation of the FIA in 1945 with reference to the role of the car industry, the development of championships (Grand Prix), and the commercialisation of motorsport. Notable episodes include the formation of Commission Sportive Internationale (CSI) in 1922, and the establishment of the European Drivers’ Championship in 1931. Second, I will introduce the theoretical and methodological framework of this book. To analyse the FIA’s development, historical sociology is used as point of departure. Skocpol (1984, p. 1) argues that researchers this field have four characteristics: first, they ask questions about social structures and processes understood to be concretely situated in time and space. Second, they address processes over time, and take temporal sequences seriously in accounting for outcomes. Third, these analyses attend to the interplay of meaningful actions and structural contexts, and finally, this kind of studies highlight the particular and varying features of specific kinds of social structures and patterns of change.

 

To analyse these processes, and the relation between structure and agency, it is relevant to continue with how organisational practices and structures are often either reflections of, or responses to, rules, beliefs and conventions built into the wider society (Powell & Colyvas, 2007, p. 975). For ISAs, this applies with regard to ‘elaboration of fields in terms of power, status, and history of institutions and the effects on organizations’ (Washington & Patterson, 2011, p. 9). While early research within this framework focused on three mechanisms of organisational change through institutional isomorphism – coercive, normative and mimetic mechanisms (DiMaggio & Powell, 1983) – and thus rewarding conformity (at least within an organisational field), recent theoretical ventures draw attention to how organisations have changed in more diverse ways – acknowledging both homogenisation and divergence – because of external pressure and internal entrepreneurship (Beckert, 2010). A key analytical task in that respect is to investigate how ‘stakeholder salience’ is related to the cumulative number of stakeholder attributes – power, legitimacy and urgency – perceived by managers to be present (Mitchell, Agle, & Wood, 1997, p. 873; Neville, Bell & Whitwell, 2011) and to identify the relative importance of stakeholders as the FIA grows as an organisation. These stakeholder relations are shaping as well as are being shaped by institutional logics, – that is, ‘a set of material practices and symbolic constructions – which constitutes its organizing principles and which is available to organizations and individuals to elaborate’ (Friedland & Alford, 1991, p. 248).

 

However, with increasing engagement beyond sports a plurality of such logics has emerged among ISAs, such as the FIA, creating hybrid organisations that are not merely non-profit or profit-based, neither neutral nor political, and transparent and secluded at the same time. Drawing upon Skelcher and Smith’s (2015) theorisation of hybridity and institutional logics, the manifestations of the latter within the FIA, in different eras, thus has to approached in an exploratory way. Most notably, this approach replaces rational choice behaviour affiliated with new institutionalism with a refined version of Giddens’ (1986) theory of structuration, as ‘decisions and outcomes are a result of the interplay between individual agency and institutional structure’ (Thornton & Ocasio, 2008, p. 103). And rather than following new institutional theory in separating the symbolic, the structural, and the cognitive dimensions of institutions, institutional logics integrate them based on ideas of ‘embedded agency’. Consequently, ‘institutional logic’ has become a more flexible approach to grasp why institutional characteristics are enabling and constraining agency at the same time. As advised by Thornton and Ocasio (2008, p. 115) the development of the FIA will be analysed through four mechanisms of change: institutional entrepreneurs, structural overlap, event sequencing, and competing institutional logics. The rest of the proposed outline give some examples of incidents, processes and people that will be relevant to investigate in this context.

 

Chapter 2: Early expansion: 1945-1967

 

As the FIA after the Second World War acquired new members, so did its responsibilities in terms of governance. The search for new members outside of Europe (or inside, as with former communist countries) in particular was troubled by political circumstances (making it difficult for Germany, a big automotive actor, to remain a member of the FIA) as well as the need to incorporate changes in consumer society, in which the car took on a prominent role. Simultaneously, the FIA established in 1950 what was to become the most popular motorsport championship in the future: Formula 1. With that, debates and quarrels about regulations began almost immediately. Although mostly ran by privateers in its first decade of racing, Formula 1 teams became a force to be reckoned with in terms of negotiating with the FIA on the essentials of the sport. Not least did Bernie Ecclestone, a 1960s-race team owner in Formula 1 and a person whose institutional entrepreneurship on the FIA will be explored in detail in following chapters, begin to assess the opportunity to transform the poorly organized and commercially sclerotic F1 into a full-fledged spectacle.

 

Hence, the FIA experienced growing pains in its attempts to cater to old and new stakeholders – in other words, reconciling different institutional logics with the same solution as faced with issues in the past. Explaining his decision not to stand for the renewal of his mandate, FIA President 1958-1963 Count Hadelin de Liedekerke Beaufort expressed it honestly at the General Assembly, 14 October 1963: ‘The FIA may rejoice in the fact that the tasks which lay before it is now more important than ever, that its membership are increasing on a par with the progress of motorization in the new Continents. There the FIA finds a justification of its efforts, but it must also perceive the opportunity for new tasks, and perhaps for some reorganizing.’ Before he ended with passing on the presidency to someone ‘with longer prospects before him, or more knowledgeable of the new circumstances of modern life’. Subsequently, these issues were addressed by the new FIA President, Italian Prince Caracciolo – the only candidate – in his acceptance speech at the very same meeting. With reference to difficulties of a general character, such as ‘the transition period the automobile world is going through’ and the acceptance of member countries whose needs ‘are totally different from those of other countries’, the new FIA president saw it as inevitable that the FIA needed to ‘undergo deep changes’. To underpin this argument, Prince Caracciolo emphasised more peculiar changes related to sport: ‘our Federation – and this is its pride, its title of glory, which we must certainly never deny – our Federation was born from Sport and, especially in the beginning, it had an entirely sporting outlook. However, compared with other domains of the automobile, o




Autore

Hans Erik Næss is an Associate Professor in Sport Management at Department of Leadership and Organization, Kristiania University College, Norway. He is the author of A Sociology of the World Rally Championship (Palgrave Macmillan 2014) and his current work focuses on the interconnections between sport, sustainability and human rights.











Altre Informazioni

ISBN:

9783030482725

Condizione: Nuovo
Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm Ø 406 gr
Formato: Brossura
Illustration Notes:XIII, 293 p. 6 illus.
Pagine Arabe: 293
Pagine Romane: xiii


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