- 著者
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宇野 博武
前田 和範
- 出版者
- 日本体育・スポーツ経営学会
- 雑誌
- 体育・スポーツ経営学研究 (ISSN:24323462)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- pp.370002, (Released:2023-05-17)
- 参考文献数
- 45
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.