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The scientific goal of the research was to get to explore and describe the fate of sports clubs in the period of the political transformation in Poland after 1989. The main research questions concerned the processes of institutional change taking place in sports clubs. During the study, the research perspective of a multiple exploratory case study was used. The following research methods were used: desk research, in-depth interview (IDI), analysis of press articles from a daily newspaper from 1989-2004 and analysis of archival data. The theoretical framework based on the concept of deinstitutionalization of the organization by Christine Oliver (1992) and the field theory of Neil Fligstein and Doug McAdam (2012) were used to analyse the collected empirical material.
During the research, two types of institutional change processes were distinguished: the reinstitutionalisation process and the deinstitutionalization process. The factors influencing these processes and the choice of strategies of social actors who managed sports clubs were also specified. There was also a discussion with theoretical concepts, supplementing them with missing elements that better describe the factors and institutional change of sports organizations.
Moreover, it was found that the above-mentioned models of change processes can be applied to research on contemporary sports clubs. Especially in situations of economic crises, ownership changes or the transition from an amateur organization to a professional one.
The indicated processes also strongly strengthened the current sports system in Poland - largely excluding multi-section clubs from functioning in the field of sport.
The main conclusion of the study concerns the further exploration of change processes in sports clubs in post-socialist countries in order to understand their current status.
