Purpose – To explain how an organization has been able to use seismic changes in its wider external environment to transform its performance without the need for radical internal restructuring or coercive forms of leadership. Design/methodology/approach – This paper utilises a three year...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate how sports science was institutionalised and rapidly deinstitutionalised within a Premier League football club. Institutional theory has been critiqued for its lack of responsiveness to change, but recent developments within institutional theory such as...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to analyse the extent to which the CIPD's professional project can be successfully realised. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on a two‐fold literature review that analyses the professional project with reference to nascent...