Stéphane Champely ; Brice Lefèvre ; Guillaume Routier ; Guillaume Bodet - The Sport Organisation PErformance Management (SOPEM) Framework: An Empirical Application to the French Federation of Hiking

mos:10435 - Management et Organisations du Sport, October 25, 2023, Issue 5 | 2023 - https://doi.org/10.46298/mos-2023-10435
The Sport Organisation PErformance Management (SOPEM) Framework: An Empirical Application to the French Federation of HikingArticle

Authors: Stéphane Champely 1; Brice Lefèvre ORCID1; Guillaume Routier ORCID1; Guillaume Bodet ORCID1

  • 1 Laboratoire sur les Vulnérabilités et l'Innovation dans le Sport (EA 7428)

How can we measure performance in sport organisations? The usual framework for organisational performance in sport federations is two-stage: measuring and managing performance. A new framework is proposed by adding two intermediate stages for analysing and reporting performance. The four-stage framework is applied to the French Federation of Hiking, a leisure-oriented federation with an aging and primarily female membership. Data comes from administrative membership records over a nine-year period (2011-2019), corresponding to 2 million multivariate observations, i.e. over 20 million available data. The analysing stage combines marketing and advanced sociodemographic statistics.A discrete-time logistic binomial model of the probability of leaving the federation demonstrates the importance of considering membership duration, age (albeit in a nonlinear way) and interesting interactions with members’ sex. Value for money is demonstrated for several stakeholders (e.g. 1 euro of public subsidies corresponds to 485 euros of volunteer work). The new framework proposes a cycle of measuring, analysing, reporting and managing performance. It can be entered at any stage and used to create or cocreate a specific performance system depending on the goals and means of the sport federation considered.


Volume: Issue 5 | 2023
Section: Research articles
Published on: October 25, 2023
Accepted on: September 27, 2023
Submitted on: December 7, 2022
Keywords: Sport federation,Hiking,Performance management,Marketing,Statistical sociodemography,Sociodémographie statistique,Fédération sportive,Randonnée,Gestion de la performance,Marketing,[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences

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