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Community-based economy, marked and democracy
ISBN print: 82-7763-161-8
Pages: 86
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This report addresses one possible consequence of the commercialisation of sport, both theoretically and empirically, that of its impact on the “social function” of voluntary sport organisations or voluntary local clubs. It addresses particularly the question of determining the effect of the commercialisation of Norwegian voluntary sport organisations on their internal democratic functioning.The contention of this report is that the development of commercial activities by Norwe-gian voluntary sport organisations does not endanger their internal democratic functioning as long as they contribute to the formation of a community-based economy where active members work voluntarily in order to generate commercial resources that are used to produce the collective and mission-related output. However, this original community-based economy may be threatened by the development of market relations between the members and the organisations.