Resource categories and performance in Portuguese non-profit sports clubs

Marco Arraya

doi:10.15728/edicaoesp.2016.5

Abstract

The resource-based view (RBV) explores the role of key resources identified as tangible, personnel-based, and intangible resources in creating superior organizational performance. The RBV posits that an organization’s success is mainly driven by resources that possess Barney’s VRIO (valuable, rare, inimitable, and organized) framework. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the relationship between the three categories of resources and organizational performance. The data was analyzed with a two-stage structural equation modelling approach. The sample included Portuguese sports management staff from non-profit clubs which composed of 375 men and 102 women. The results of the structural model demonstrated that, intangible resources can significantly influence organizational performance while, personnel-based resources influence tangible and intangible resources. The results show that “staff competence”, “reputation”, and “financial capital” were the most essential resources, and that is core for non-profit clubs and their strategy to recognize, develop, and leverage VRIO resources. These findings also have considerable implications for sport managers, and suggestions for possible future research were given.

Highlights

IntroductionThe difficult financial situation of most non-profit sports clubs, their fighting for financial and human resources, their different challenges such as increasing competition through sponsors, nonexistence of public subsidies, demographic change and the growing sports competition between peers, forces sports managers to understand how to create, develop, buy, accumulate, combine, or utilize their resources or assets in the best way to compete and create value (Sirmon, Hitt, & Ireland, 2007)
The difficult financial situation of most non-profit sports clubs, their fighting for financial and human resources, their different challenges such as increasing competition through sponsors, nonexistence of public subsidies, demographic change and the growing sports competition between peers, forces sports managers to understand how to create, develop, buy, accumulate, combine, or utilize their resources or assets in the best way to compete and create value (Sirmon, Hitt, & Ireland, 2007).A sport club is defined as a group of individuals organized for the purpose of furthering and promoting their interest in sports or athletic activity
A hypothesis H2 is confirmed, whereas, hypothesis H1 is partially confirmed due to Tangible resources (TR) to PER not existing, and Intangible resources (IR) having an even lower level. These results prove the importance of Personnel-based resources (PBR) and IR in sports organizations, and it further prevents us from forgetting their contribution for today and tomorrow’s rents when used in an effective way (Grajkowska, 2011)

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Introduction

The difficult financial situation of most non-profit sports clubs, their fighting for financial and human resources, their different challenges such as increasing competition through sponsors, nonexistence of public subsidies, demographic change and the growing sports competition between peers, forces sports managers to understand how to create, develop, buy, accumulate, combine, or utilize their resources or assets in the best way to compete and create value (Sirmon, Hitt, & Ireland, 2007). A sport club is defined as a group of individuals organized for the purpose of furthering and promoting their interest in sports or athletic activity. The purpose of the club should be to promote health, physical well-being and the acquisition of physical skill development. A sport club offers opportunities for development of life skills such as leadership, cooperation, public relations, scheduling, budgeting, organizational dynamics, sportsmanship, and teamwork. The sport club may be recreational, instructional, and/or competitive in nature. Members may display a variety of skill levels and may place varying degrees of emphasis on extramural competition

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