@article{a7fe227423a7425588b4a633a441b2be,
title = "“My Ideal Is Where It Is Just Jane the Cricketer, Rather Than Jane the Gay Cricketer”: An Institutional Perspective of Lesbian Inclusion in Australian Cricket",
abstract = "The aim of this article was to develop a theoretical framework to aid the current understanding of social change practice. Drawing on concepts from institutional theory, the authors proposed and applied a theoretical framework to investigate social change at the intersection of gender and sexuality inclusion in Australian cricket. Qualitative techniques (interviews and document analyses) were utilized to investigate the trajectory of lesbian inclusion in Australian cricket over time. Starting from the perspective that institutional arrangements can be exclusionary (or biased) toward certain groups in society, this research investigated how the actions of institutional entrepreneurs can create more inclusive institutional arrangements. Theoretical and practical implications for future research are discussed.",
author = "Jonathan Robertson and Ryan Storr and Andrew Bakos and Daniel O'Brien",
note = "Funding Information: The authors would like to thank Dr. Grant O{\textquoteright}Sullivan, Professor Caroline Symons, Professor Ram{\'o}n Spaaij, and Melissa Sbaraglia for their work and contribution to this study. They would further like to acknowledge the support of the Victorian State Government; Sport and Recreation Victoria; Institute of Sport, Exercise, and Active Living (ISEAL), Victoria University; Cricket Victoria; and Cricket Australia. Finally, they would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their insightful and constructive feedback during this process. Funding Information: During the 1990s, the governance of women{\textquoteright}s cricket under the Women{\textquoteright}s Cricket Association (WCA) became increasingly reliant on funding from the men{\textquoteright}s governing body, the Australian Cricket Board (ACB), and the Australian Sports Commission (ASC; now Sport Australia). The ASC is the means by which the Australian Federal Government funds Australian national sport organizations. In 1997, the ASC released a report titled Amalgamation Guidelines for Recreation and Sporting Organizations (ASC, 1997). The report recommended the amalgamation of any sports where separate gender-specific national governing bodies existed. The WCA and the ACB subsequently merged to form CA on July 1, 2003. The formation of CA in 2003 required changes in the national sport governing body{\textquoteright}s organizational structure. This restructuring provides stark evidence of how gender and sexuality bias was actively maintained within the institution of Australian cricket. Herein, we have described CA as a type of institutional entrepreneur that DiMaggio (1988) defined as an “institutional defender” who benefits from the existing, albeit biased, institutional arrangements. In developing this proposition, we purposefully positioned CA in a paradoxical situation of simultaneously maintaining and disrupting biased institutional beliefs toward gender inclusion. In this section, we have focused on the maintenance of biased institutional arrangements and introduced a mechanism of institutional maintenance whereby Lawrence and Suddaby (2006) defined embedding and routinizing work as “actively infusing the normative foundations of an institution into the participants{\textquoteright} day-to-day routines and organizational practices” (p. 230). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Human Kinetics, Inc.",
year = "2019",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1123/jsm.2018-0371",
language = "English",
volume = "33",
pages = "393--405",
journal = "Journal of Sport Management",
issn = "0888-4773",
publisher = "Human Kinetics Publishers Inc.",
number = "5",
}