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This book is the first independent exploration of the Federation
Internationale de l'Automobile's (FIA) institutional history.
Virtually unexamined compared with similar institutions like the
FIFA and the IOC, the FIA has nevertheless changed from being a
small association in 1904 to becoming one of the world's most
influential sport governing bodies. Through chronologically
organised chapters, this book explains how the FIA manages to link
together motorsport circuses like Formula 1 with the automotive
industry and societal issues like road safety and environmental
sustainability. In an exciting narrative spanning seven decades, it
reviews the FIA's organisational turning points, governing
controversies, political dramas and sporting tragedies. Considering
the FIA to be a unique type of hybrid organisation characterised by
what the author calls 'organisational emulsion', this case study
contains theoretical innovations relevant to other studies of sport
governing bodies. It makes an empirically grounded contribution to
the research fields of institutional logics, historical sociology
and sport governance.
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Quiz Prix
(Paperback)
Steph Barraclough; Foreword by Tom Kristensen, Neil Cole
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