Research proposal
Title: Managing high-performance sports at national policy level: Indian Perspective
Background: competition in international sport has increased considerably during the last decade. While Hogan and Norton (2000) found that during the nineties there was a significant linear relationship between money spent and total medals won in Australia, there is evidence that in the period 1980-1996, this has become less valid. De bosscher et al (2008) found that none of the nations in a sample of six (Belgium, Canada, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, and the U.K) improved its market share of medal points between 2000 and 2004 even though their expenditure on elite sports (from government funding and lotteries) had increased during the same period. There are diminishing returns on investment and it is necessary to continue investing in elite sport simply to maintain existing performance levels (de bosscher et. al, 2008). The fundamental principle of what has been described as a global sporting arms race is that international sporting success can be produced by investing strategically in elite sport (de bosscher et al., 2008; Oakley and green, 2001b). a key feature of this arms race is that the rules are determined by what rival nations are doing now, rather than by what an individual nation did in the past (de bosscher et al., 2008). Just as it is in strategic management literature, the focus is on future performance rather than past achievements (lebas 1995) therefore because standards are continually improving, standing still means going backward in elite sports. As a result, nations are searching for the most effective keys to strive to differentiate themselves from their competitors and gain a competitive advantage. The focus has moved more and more from a simple input-output relationship towards investing in a blend of ‘pillars’ or policy dimensions, which are the processes or throughputs, that aim to turn inputs into the desired outputs ( Chelladurai 2001). This was the starting point of the SPLISS (Sports Policy factor leading to international sporting success) model.
Question: Indian perspective in SPLISS model in managing high-performance sports at national sports policy.
Research method: Quantitative and qualitative method to collect and analyses on the nine parameters of SPLISS model, research data to be collected from Ministry of sports, sports authority of India and Indian Olympic association an inventory to be used to collect objective policy data on nine pillars also a survey aimed at evaluating the sports climate (in nine pillars) from perspective top-level high-level athletes, top coaches and high-performance directors in India.
Working Plan and schedule: To collect data and survey from Ministry of sports, sports authority of India, Indian Olympic association, all data and survey to be collected within six months, possible outcome of getting to understand the sports policy within Indian context on SPLISS model.
Bibliography: Hogan, k and Norton, k (2000). The price of Olympic gold. Journal of science and medicine in sports, 3, 203-218.
De Bosscher, v. Bingham (2008) the global sporting arm race. An international comparative study on sport policy factors leading to international sporting success. Aachen: Meyer & Meyer.
Lebas, m (1995) performance measurement and performance management. International journal of production economics, 41, 23-35.
Chelladurai, p (2001). Managing organizations, for sports and physical activity. A system perspective. Scottsdale: Holcomb Hathaway publisher.
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