Danny O’Brien

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore Business Club Australia, an initiative launched by the Australian federal government to create leverage from Sydney's hosting of the 2000 Olympic Games by providing opportunities for business networking and international trade facilitation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the nature of this transformation in English rugby union and found that changes in the communities of actors composing the field hastened change in other areas, such as exchange processes and interorganizational linkages.

TL;DR: This article studied the evolution of the organizational field of English rugby union from an amateur to a professional dominant logic between 1995 and 2000 using 43 interviews with key individuals in rugby union and found that isomorphic change in accord with a new professional logic diffused throughout the field by way of three distinct diffusion patterns: status driven, bandwagon, and eventually, the social learning of adaptive responses.