Abstract
This study is centered on the modalities of participation or "strategies" of executives in two Canadian provincial sport federations. Crozier and Friedberg's (1977) strategic analysis perspective and restricted phenomenological method were utilized. Objective as well as subjective data were collected and strategies were elaborated from (a) an analysis of official data concerning the sport organizations, and (b) a content analysis of 60 interviews with executives of these organizations. Four ideal-types of strategy were identified: the strategies of technocracy, counteroffensive, political withdrawal, and all-directional defense. These strategies were found to correspond to the executives' organizational level and role, namely: provincial appointed administrator and volunteer executive at the provincial, regional, or local level.
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