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While the field of football studies has produced an abundance of
literature on professional, top-league football, there is little
research output to do with the non-top level football. This book
explores the relationship between the top and lower leagues, laying
open the drastic schisms that exist between the different levels.
The study links the developments at the top level of English and
German football in the past 30 years to transformational processes
in lower league football. Illustrating how the hegemonic status of
top football weighs hard on the spheres below, it depicts how it
also serves as a blueprint for lower league football clubs'
strategies in coping with a threefold dilemma of institutional
legitimacy that shows itself in economic, cultural and social
dimensions. Taking the different club structures in both national
contexts as a starting point, it portrays both the efficacy of
institutional frameworks and how these can be challenged from
below. This research will be of interest to students and scholars
across football studies, sports studies, the sociology of sport,
and organisation studies.
While the field of football studies has produced an abundance of
literature on professional, top-league football, there is little
research output to do with the non-top level football. This book
explores the relationship between the top and lower leagues, laying
open the drastic schisms that exist between the different levels.
The study links the developments at the top level of English and
German football in the past 30 years to transformational processes
in lower league football. Illustrating how the hegemonic status of
top football weighs hard on the spheres below, it depicts how it
also serves as a blueprint for lower league football clubs'
strategies in coping with a threefold dilemma of institutional
legitimacy that shows itself in economic, cultural and social
dimensions. Taking the different club structures in both national
contexts as a starting point, it portrays both the efficacy of
institutional frameworks and how these can be challenged from
below. This research will be of interest to students and scholars
across football studies, sports studies, the sociology of sport,
and organisation studies.
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