Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate coaches' views on developing leadership and shared leadership capacity in particular in competitive youth football. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative examination focusses on the leadership philosophy of ten male coaches at the sub-elite competitive …

Shared leadership is viewed as an effective form of management to deal with increased complexity in youth team sport. However two gaps exist: ‘lack of literature concerning leadership development in youth’ and ‘the paucity of reliable and valid measures to assess shared leadership in youth sport’. This …

Leadership development concerns a complex subject because it pertains an extensive number of combinations of features of people, purposes and contexts. Much research has been conducted on the development of adult leaders, but little is known about youth sharing the leadership in the context of playing …

Workshop organiser and convener of social entrepreneurship in sports (EASM conference)

This study assesses the evolutionary leadership theory and the natural leadership instrument of Van Vugt and Ahuja (2011) in the context of youth elite football. The Evolutionary Leadership Theory is a comprehensive new way of looking at leadership. The evolutionary approach suggests that environmental …

Key note presentation together with R. Crabtree.

Deze uitgave vormt een inleiding in het managen van financiële processen en prestaties van organisaties in de sport- en recreatiesector. De theorie en praktijkvoorbeelden, aangevuld met een diversiteit aan vraagstukken vormen een goed overzicht van financiële inzichten en instrumenten voor de reeds werkzame …