Organisational culture is not dead...yet: Response to Wagstaff and Burton-Wylie

Citation

Mcdougall b & Ronkainen N (2019) Organisational culture is not dead...yet: Response to Wagstaff and Burton-Wylie. Sport and Exercise Psychology Review, 15 (1).

Abstract
First paragraph: WAGSTAFF AND Burton-Wylie’s (2018) recent article ‘Organisational culture in sport: A conceptual, definitional and methodological review’ is a vital addition to our discipline’s burgeoning organisational culture literature base. Coherent and incorporating key ideas and theory from sport psychology and wider sport and organisational domains, their article is thankfully ‘culture-focused’; precisely the type of review observed as patently lacking in previous sport psychology organisational culture literature. Some of our recent and forthcoming organisational culture contributions (e.g. Author names removed for review purposes) converge on similar themes and are forged from the same spirit of cultural inquiry and desire for progress in the area. We therefore felt compelled and reasonably well-positioned to respond to the authors’ call for dialogue. Organisational culture and more broadly just culture is notoriously complex, and as the authors note, sport psychology – especially in comparison to other disciplines more familiar with the concept – has much catching up to do

Journal
Sport and Exercise Psychology Review: Volume 15, Issue 1