Nachwuchspreis 2025

Im Rahmen der 16. Jahrestagung der SGS in Magglingen wurde erneut der SGS Nachwuchspreis vergeben. Nach einer ersten Qualitätsprüfung der ausführlichen Abstracts durch die Jury wurden die fünf Kandidat:innen mit den höchsten Punktewerten für eine mündliche Präsentation mit anschliessender Diskussion zum Finale des Nachwuchspreises eingeladen. Die besten drei Nachwuchsforschenden wurden schliesslich durch die SGS ausgezeichnet. Insgesamt hatten sich vierzehn Personen auf den Nachwuchspreis beworben. Die SGS möchte allen Gewinner:innen herzlich gratulieren.

1. Platz: Raphael Stieger (Universität Bern)

Professionalisation and governance in sports organisations: towards an integrated understanding
Professionalisation and governance are closely interrelated in sports organisations, but the sports management literature provides limited theoretical and conceptual research into this interrelationship. As a first step towards an integrated understanding of professionalisation and governance in sports organisations, this scoping review examines the role of governance in the professionalisation of nonprofit sports organisations. We conducted an electronic database search, yielding 277 articles discussing the professionalisation of sports organisations. Deduplication and screening resulted in the inclusion of 57 articles, which were then searched for statements about organisational governance. We found that the sports management literature discusses various ways in which governance influences and is influenced by the professionalisation of sports organisations. Governance structures and processes can initiate, promote, or hinder professionalisation processes, such as democratic governance structures presenting a “stumbling block” for organisational professionalisation. Governance structures and processes are, in turn, professionalised in different ways, for example, by appointing “governance professionals”. Design archetypes generally symbolise the interdependence of professionalisation and governance concepts, and professionalisation can also influence the governance of sports organisations, such as changing the board’s role. This review identifies five areas for further research: the role and perspectives of stakeholders, consequences of professionalisation for organisational governance, the increasing power and influence of paid executives, decision-making in sports organisations, and the governance of professionalisation processes. Sports management practitioners should also be aware of the close and complex interrelationship of professionalisation and governance.

2. Platz: Wesselia Ngoenha (Universität Lausanne)

Abstract (folgt)

3. Platz Fabienne Bruggisser (Universität Basel) 

Abstract folgt