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University of Lausanne: Emmanuel Bayle, Josephine Clausen, David Giauque

University of Bern: Christoffer Klenk, Grazia Lang, Sigfried Nagel, Kaisa Ruoranen, Torsten Schlesinger

Emmanuel Bayle

has a PHD in management sciences and is Professor in sports managemement at the Institute of Sport Sciences of the University of Lausanne (ISSUL). Previously, he was Professor in strategic management and corporate social responsability (CSR) at the business school of the University of Lyon.

He has published several books and articles on sports management (i.e. Great leaders in sport, Governance in sport organisations) but also on CSR (CSR and sport) and on non profit management.

He is a speacialist of governance, management and performance of olympic sport organisations and has experiences in executive education in this area. He currently manages a research project on professionnalisation of international sports federation.

Josephine Clausen

joined the research team in September 2014 as PhD candidate at the Institute of Sport Sciences of the University of Lausanne. Josephine holds a French and a German Master degree in International Economic Relations, obtained at the universities of Paris-Est Créteil (France) and Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany). Before starting her PhD, Josephine has worked at the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). Her main research focus is on international sport federations, their professionalisation and commercialisation, their economic models, leadership as well as organisational performance.

David Giauque

is a professor at the University of Lausanne, member of the Institute of Political, Historical and International Studies (IEPHI), and member of the Swiss Public Administration Network (SPAN). From 2003 to 2008, he worked at the University of Applied Sciences (HES-SO Valais) as a research and teaching professor. He was then recruited by the University of Lausanne in 2008. Since this date, he works in this institution and teaches mainly in the master program dedicated to the teaching of public policies and public administration. His current research interests include:

• comparative public administrations (e.g., public management reforms),
• human resource management in the public sector,
• sociology of organizations, and public administrations (e.g., sociology of public employees, relationships between political actors and bureaucrats),
• managerialization and professionalisation processes in public and/or non-profit organizations.

He is the author of numerous publications on various topics such as : public management reforms; organizational transformations; professionalization and de-professionlisation processes in organizations confronted to managerialization; occupational health in non-profit and public organizations; motivation processes (public service motivation); professional identities; organizational culture. He is also member of several editorial and scientific committees of prestigious international journals (International Review of Administrative Sciences; European Management Review; International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management; Management International; Humanisme et Entreprise; and more). He is the author and co-author of 13 books, of about 50 scientific articles (in peer-reviewed journals), and of approximately 20 book chapters.

Christoffer Klenk

holds a post-doc position at the Institute of Sports Science (University of Bern), at the department for Sport sociology and management. His research focus is on voluntary sports organizations like sports clubs and sport federations and, in this context, analyzing topics like decision-making, voluntary management, organizational change, learning capacity or again members interests.

Grazia Lang

holds a Master’s degree in Sport Science and Business Administration, obtained at the University of Bern in 2014. She joined the research team of Professionalisation in Sport Federations in Switzerland in June 2015 as a PhD candidate at the Institute of Sport Science at the University of Bern (Switzerland). Her research focus lies on typologies of professionalizing sport organisations.

Siegfried Nagel

is Full Professor at the University of Bern and Director of the Institute of Sport Science. His main fields of interest are sport organisation research, particularly sport club development, as well as sport participation and life course research. He is President-Elect and Vice-President of the European Association for Sociology of Sport (eass).

Kaisa Ruoranen

holds a Master’s Degree in Organization and Knowledge of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Lucerne (Switzerland). Her Bachelor’s Degree she obtained in Communication and Social Sciences. Following her studies, worked as a scientific assistant and later as a project scientist at Swiss Paraplegic Research in Nottwil (Switzerland). There, her research focus lied on social integration and participation issues. In August 2014, Kaisa Ruoranen joined the research team of the here presented project on Professionalisation of Sport Federations in Switzerland. At the same time, and in the context of the project, she  works on her doctoral thesis in Sport Sciences at the Institute of Sport Science at the University of Bern (Switzerland). Her main focus is on (neo-) institutionalism, non-profit organizations, voluntarism, as well as institutional differences between countries.

Kaisa Ruoranen grew up in Finland. After having graduated in 2002, she initially came to Switzerland as an au pair for one year. After finally two years as an au pair, she began her studies at the University of Lucerne, and since has lived in Switzerland.

Torsten Schlesinger

is Professor at the Institute of Human Movement Science and Health of the Technische Universität Chemnitz in Germany. After finishing his doctorate at TU Chemnitz in Sport Sciences he received the venia docendi in Sport Science at the University of Bern in 2013. His research interests relate to different aspects of human resource management in voluntary sport clubs, and sport club development. Actual research reflects a combination of individual and situational perspectives for the investigation of individual acting in sporting contexts.