Tag: Niilo Konttinen
Leadership in Elite Football: A Case Study of Leadership Characteristics in a Men’s Football National Team
This study by Sakari Holopainen, Mihaly Szerovay, Niilo Konttinen and Marja Kokkonen explored the types of leadership characteristics found in a men’s national football team. The research question was: What leadership characteristics describe a men’s national football team? Our data comprised 182 pages of transcripts of interviews with five coaches and two players from a men’s national team. The team’s leadership structure was characterized by the coaching staff and players having clear roles while leaving space for informal leaders to emerge as needed.
When the whole becomes less than the sum of the parts
While appreciating the individual contributions to The Many Faces of Snow Sports: Ski Congress 2017 anthology, edited by Heikki Roiko-Jokela & Piia Pöyhönen (Jyväskylä University Press), Daniel Svensson sees the book as an example of the problems inherent in international anthologies, where the different chapters don't communicate, and the editors don't do their job properly.
