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Stakeholder influence strategies in bidding for a professional sport franchise license

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  • Jackie Heffernan
  • Danny O’Brien

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This paper examines an application for a franchise license in Australia's professional rugby league competition, the National Rugby League (NRL). Frooman's (1999) typology of stakeholder influence strategies is used to analyse the negotiation of resource relationships between a Gold Coast franchise bid team and its key stakeholders. Primary data came from 12 interviews with nine key actors in the bid process; these were buttressed by secondary data. Frooman's typology provided a useful heuristic, but did not fully account for the critical role of firm legitimacy in stakeholders’ choice of influence strategies. The bid team negotiated stakeholders’ initial direct withholding strategies by creating access to the intangible resource of legitimacy. This subsequently provided access to material resources such as finance, a new stadium, and, ultimately, a franchise license. The findings are of note to practitioners and scholars interested professional sport and stakeholder theory.

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  • Jackie Heffernan & Danny O’Brien, 2010. "Stakeholder influence strategies in bidding for a professional sport franchise license," Sport Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(3), pages 255-268, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsmrxx:v:13:y:2010:i:3:p:255-268
    DOI: 10.1016/j.smr.2010.01.007
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