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Anna-Maria Moro Strittmatter

Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Health Sciences

Email: anna-maria.strittmatter@oru.se

Phone: +46 732 302251

Room: G2212

Research subject

Sport Science

About Anna-Maria Moro Strittmatter

Dr. Anna-Maria Strittmatter is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Management at Örebro University since August 2023. Until 2024, she held a position as Associate Professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in Oslo, Norway where she gained her PhD in Sport Management in 2017.

Anna-Maria has work experience as General Secretary at the World Snowboard Federation and as event organizer of international snowboard events. She was Vice-president of the Norwegian Board Sports Federation and was founding member and board member of Tverga – the Norwegian resource center for self-organized sports and activity.

Research

Anna-Maria’s research combines sport governance and sport event management.

Her range of expertise encompasses areas including sport policy, organizing of sports, social inclusion in decision making, sustainable development within sports, as well as Olympic legacy and leverage. A special focus is on youth sport and action sports.

In the last years, Anna-Maria has comprehensively researched young people’s engagement as driver for sustainable management and governance of sport organizations where she repeatedly received funding from the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports and from the Norwegian Research Centre for Children and Youth Sport. By doing so, she examined the social impact of the Youth Olympic Games on young people’s involvement in sport. Also, she studied organizational and political functions of youth committees, as well as evaluated courses addressed to young leaders which serve as tool to better integrate young people in the governance structures of organized sports.

Anna-Maria is part of an interdisciplinary, international research group focusing on social inclusion and the Olympic and Paralympic Games with the aim to increase knowledge on diversity challenges and needs for stakeholders involved in the Games.

Anna-Maria is part of the research team ReShape.

Teaching

Anna-Maria teaches and supervises students in the Sport Management program at the School of Health Sciences at Örebro University. Her teaching duties comprise Sport Management in an international context, sustainable Sport Management, qualitative methods, leadership, organizational theory, and Sport Management as research field. She is currently co-supervising two PhD Candidates:

Julius Stromberg – Good governance of voluntary sports clubs
Dilara Valiyeva – Social inclusion and Olympic legacy

Nettworks and collaborations

Anna-Maria is member of the editorial boards in the research journals European Sport Management Quarterly and Journal of Olympic Studies.

Research groups
Publications

Research groups

ReShape - Research in Sport, Health and Physical Education

Publications

Articles in journals

Rasmussen, S. , Strittmatter, A. & Skirstad, B. (2024). Institutional work as response to institutional complexities in hybrid elite sport and sport for all organizations. European Sport Management Quarterly.
Skille, E. Å. , Strittmatter, A. , Stenling, C. & Fahlén, J. (2023). Private football academies - friend or foe?: an analysis of Norwegian media's framing of arguments about private football academies and the monopoly of organized sport. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 58 (8), 1263-1281.
Stenling, C. , Fahlén, J. , Strittmatter, A. & Skille, E. Å. (2023). The gatekeepers of sport governance: nomination committees' shaping potential in national sport organizations' board composition processes. European Sport Management Quarterly, 23 (2), 586-603.
Stenling, C. , Fahlén, J. , Strittmatter, A. & Skille, E. Å. (2023). The meaning of democracy in an era of good governance: Views of representation and their implications for board composition. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 58 (1), 108-125.
Skille, E. Å. , Fahlén, J. , Stenling, C. & Strittmatter, A. (2022). (Lack of) government policy for indigenous (Sámi) sport: A chain of legitimating and de-legitimating acts. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 57 (1), 112-128.
Adam, S. , Grønkjær, A. B. , Strittmatter, A. & Wohlfart, O. (2022). Playing by the rules of academia?: The impact of an international research project on the professional identity development of early-career academics in sport management. International Journal of Educational Research Open, 3.
Strittmatter, A. , Hanstad, D. V. & Skirstad, B. (2021). Facilitating Sustainable Outcomes for the Organization of Youth Sports through Youth Engagement. Sustainability, 13 (4).
Bodemar, A. , Strittmatter, A. & Fahlén, J. (2020). Doomed to fail?: a study of how junior managers at a major sport event cope with leadership issues. International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, 20 (3/4), 271-288.
Stenling, C. , Fahlén, J. , Strittmatter, A. & Skille, E. (2020). Hierarchies of criteria in NSO board-nomination processes: insights from nomination committees' work. European Sport Management Quarterly, 20 (5), 636-654.
Wohlfart, O. , Adam, S. , García-Unanue, J. , Hovemann, G. , Skirstad, B. & Strittmatter, A. (2020). Internationalization of the Sport Management Labor Market and Curriculum Perspectives: Insights From Germany, Norway, and Spain. Sport Management Education Journal, 14 (2), 129-141.
Strittmatter, A. , Kilvinger, B. , Bodemar, A. , Skille, E. Å. & Kurscheidt, M. (2018). Dual governance structures in action sports: institutionalization processes of professional snowboarding revisited. Sport in Society: Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce, 22 (10), 1655-1673.
Strittmatter, A. , Stenling, C. , Fahlén, J. & Skille, E. (2018). Sport policy analysis revisited: the sport policy process as an interlinked chain of legitimating acts. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 10 (4), 621-635.
Sand, T. S. , Strittmatter, A. & Hanstad, D. V. (2017). 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games: planning for a volunteer legacy. International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, 17 (4-6), 242-260.
Strittmatter, A. (2017). A neo-institutionalist analysis of sport event leveraging strategies and tactics. International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, 17 (4/5/6), 261-282.
Lesjø, J. H. , Strittmatter, A. & Hanstad, D. V. (2017). Patterns of influence: relationship with the IOC as seen by the organisers of the Youth Olympic Winter Games 2016. International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, 17 (4-6), 331-350.
Strittmatter, A. & Skille, E. Å. (2016). Boosting youth sport? Implementation of Norwegian youth sport policy through the 2016 Lillehammer Winter Youth Olympic Games. Sport in Society: Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce, 20 (1), 144-160.
Strittmatter, A. (2016). Defining a problem to fit the solution: A neo-institutional explanation for legitimising the bid for the 2016 Lillehammer winter Youth Olympic Games. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 8 (3), 421-437.
Kristiansen, E. , Strittmatter, A. & Skirstad, B. (2016). Stakeholders, Challenges and Issues at a Co-Hosted Youth Olympic Event: Lessons Learned from the European Youth Olympic Festival in 2015. International Journal of the History of Sport, 33 (10), 1152-1168.
Strittmatter, A. & Skirstad, B. (2014). Managing football organizations: a man’s world? Comparing women in decision-making positions in Germany and Norway and their international influence: a contextual approach. Soccer & Society, 18 (1), 81-101.

Articles, reviews/surveys

Säfvenbom, R. , Strittmatter, A. & Bernhardsen, G. P. (2023). Developmental Outcomes for Young People Participating in Informal and Lifestyle Sports: a Scoping Review of the Literature, 2000–2020. Social Sciences, 12 (5), 299-299.
Lindsey, I. , Strittmatter, A. , Hayton, J. & O’Gorman, J. (2023). Two decades of youth sport policy research: an augmented scoping review and synthesis. European Sport Management Quarterly.

Books

Hanstad, D. V. , Renslo Sandvik, M. & Strittmatter, A. (2021). Idrett og bærekraft: Perspektiver på miljø- og samfunnsansvar i idrettens organisasjoner. Oslo: Fagbokforlaget.

Chapters in books

Strittmatter, A. , Løvold Syversen, T. & Nordhagen, S. E. (2023). Sport Event Policy. In: Vassil Girginov; Milena Parent, The Routledge Encyclopedia of Sport Studies. . Routledge.
Strittmatter, A. , Lindsey, I. , O'Gorman, J. & Hayton, J. (2022). Coaching Children and Youth Sport Policy. In: Martin Toms; Ruth Jeanes, Routledge Handbook of Coaching Children in Sport (pp. 395-404). . Taylor & Francis Group.
Hamstad, D. & Strittmatter, A. (2022). En bærekraftig idrettsorganisasjon: Lang vei fra vedtak til implementering. In: Tjønndal, Bærekraft i idrett og friluftsliv (pp. 121-138). . Universitetsforlaget.
Strittmatter, A. , Houlihan, B. & Fahlén, J. (2022). Insights gained from employing stakeholder theory in analyses of the sport environment. In: Anna-Maria Strittmatter; Josef Fahlén; Barrie Houlihan, Stakeholder analysis and sport organisations (pp. 245-259). Abingdon: Routledge.
Houlihan, B. , Strittmatter, A. & Fahlén, J. (2022). Introduction. In: Anna-Maria Strittmatter, Josef Fahlén, Barrie Houlihan, Stakeholder analysis and sport organisations (pp. 3-27). . Taylor & Francis.
Skille, E. Å. & Strittmatter, A. (2022). Stakeholder relationships in the work of anti-doping. In: Anna-Maria Strittmatter, Josef Fahlén, Barrie Houlihan, Stakeholder Analysis and Sport Organisations. London: Routledge.
Houlihan, B. & Strittmatter, A. (2022). Stakeholding and youth sport in England and Norway. In: Anna-Maria Strittmatter, Josef Fahlén, Barrie Houlihan, Stakeholder Analysis and Sport Organisations. London: Routledge.
Skille, E. Å. , Fahlén, J. , Stenling, C. & Strittmatter, A. (2021). Dørvakter til særforbundsstyrer: valgkomitérepresentanters syn påseleksjonskriterier og kjønnsbalanse. In: Anne Tjønndal, Idrett, kjønn og ledelse: festskrift til Jorid Hovden (pp. 306-322). Bergen: Fagbokforlaget.
Stenling, C. , Fahlén, J. , Strittmatter, A. & Skille, E. Å. (2021). Gate-keeping nonprofit governance: evaluative criteria and their rankings in nomination committee selection processes. In: Gemma Donnelly-Cox; Michael Meyer; Filip Wijkström, Research handbook on nonprofit governance (pp. 279-293). . Edward Elgar Publishing.
Strittmatter, A. & Parent, M. M. (2020). Youth Sport Events and Festivals. In: Eric W. MacIntosh; Gonzalo A. Bravo; Ming Li, International sport management (pp. 227-243). Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics.
Strittmatter, A. (2017). For og med, men ikke bare av ungdom: utdanning av unge ledere. In: D. V. Hanstad, J. H. Lesjö, Ungdoms-OL på Lillehammer: Barneskirenn eller olympisk innovasjon? (pp. 205-226). . Akilles forlag.

Collections (editor)

Strittmatter, A. (ed.) , Fahlén, J. (ed.) & Houlihan, B. (ed.) (2022). Stakeholder analysis and sport organisations (1ed.). Abingdon: Routledge (Routledge research in sport business and management ).

Conference papers

Girginov, V. , Marlier, M. , Strittmatter, A. , Walzel, S. , Chanavat, N. , Willem, A. & Winand, M. (2023). Practicing good governance: insights from sport clubs in five European countries. In: Proceedings of the North American Society for Sport Management Conference, Montreal, 2023. Paper presented at The North American Society for Sport Management Conference, Montreal, Canada, May 31- June 3, 2023.
Strittmatter, A. , Horbel, C. , Bodemar, A. , Grönkjaer, A. B. , Strömberg, J. Z. & Hanstad, D. V. (2023). Prioritization and Relevance of the Sustainable Development Goals in the Sustainability Transition Process of Sport Organizations. In: Paradis, K.F., Kitchin, P.K., Donnelly, P.D., Tleford, R.T., Haughey, T., Fyfe, C., Book of Abstracts of the 31st Conference of the European Association for SportManagement Belfast, Northern Ireland, 12th – 15th 2023, Ulster University. Paper presented at The 31th European Association for Sport Management Conference, Belfast, Ireland, September 12-15, 2023.
Strittmatter, A. & Horbel, C. (2023). Stakeholder Involvement in Decision-Making Processes in Sport Organizations: Representation Beyond Board Composition. Paper presented at The North American Society for Sport Management Conference, Montreal, Canada, May 31- June 3, 2023.
Pranjic, I. , Glibo, I. , Effert, S. , Broms, L. & Strittmatter, A. (2023). Youth participation in national umbrella sport organisations in Euro. In: Proceedings of the Play the Game Conference, Trondheim 2023. Paper presented at The Play the Game Conference, Trondheim, Norway, 2023.
Horbel, C. , Strittmatter, A. & Skjerahaug, S. (2022). Collaborations between Sport Organizations and Athletes in Career Transition Processes. Paper presented at 30th European Association for Sport Management Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, September 5-8, 2022.
Strittmatter, A. (2021). How to increase youth governance in organized sport?. In: Proceedings of the North American Society for Sport Management Conference, Online 2021. Paper presented at North American Society for Sport Management Conference, Online, June 3, 2021.
Marlier, M. , Walzel, S. , Strittmatter, A. , Girginov, V. , Chanavat, N. , Willem, A. & Winand, M. (2020). Good Governance Challenges in Sport Clubs: a Cross-Country Comparison. In: Proceedings of the 28th European Association for Sport Management Conference, Online 2021. Paper presented at The 28th European Association for Sport Management Conference, Online, September 21-25, 2020.
Skille, E. , Fahlén, J. , Stenling, C. & Strittmatter, A. (2019). Government policy for indigenous (Sámi) sport: A chain of legitimating acts?. In: 2019 World Congress of Sociology of Sport University of Otago, New Zealand, 24-27 April, 2019 : conference program, abstracts & proceedings. Paper presented at The World Congress of Sociology of Sport, Dunedin, New Zealand, April 24-27, 2019. University of Otago.
Skirstad, B. , Strittmatter, A. & Grønkjær, A. B. (2019). Unpacking Sport Managers' Future Preferred Competences. In: Tim Breitbarth, Guillame Bodet, Álvaro Fernández Luna, Pablo Burillo Naranjo, Gerardo Bielons, The 27th European Sport Management Conference, Sevilla, Spain, September 3-6, 2019 Book of abstracts. Paper presented at The 27th European Sport Management Conference, Sevilla, Spain, September 3-6, 2019. (pp. 726-728). European Association for Sport Management.
Bodemar, A. , Strittmatter, A. & Fahlén, J. (2018). Doomed to fail?: A study of how junior managers at a major sport event cope with leadership issues. In: World Congress of Sociology of Sport, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 5 - 8, 2018 ISSA 2018 Book of Abstracts, Lausanne, 2018. Paper presented at World Congress of Sociology of Sport, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 5 - 8, 2018. (pp. 15-15).
Stenling, C. , Fahlén, J. , Strittmatter, A. & Skille, E. (2018). Exclusion and inclusion in searching for the "right" candidate: (re)production of (mis)representation in board nomination processes. In: Proceedings of the European Association for Sociology of Sport Conference, Bordeaux 2018. Paper presented at The European Association for Sociology of Sport Conference, Bordeaux, France, May 23-26, 2018. European Association for Sociology of Sport.
Baarlid, L. , Strittmatter, A. & Horbel, C. (2018). Value co-creation among the stakeholders of X Games Norway. In: Proceedings of the 26th European Association for Sport Management Conference. Paper presented at The 26th European Association for Sport Management Conference, Malmo, Sweden, September 5-8, 2018.
Strittmatter, A. (2017). Doing Legitimacy: Legitimation Processes of Sport Organizations. In: Proceedings of the 25th European Association for Sport Management Conference, Bern 2017. Paper presented at The 25th European Association for Sport Management Conference, Berne, Switzerland, September 5-8, 2017.
Stenling, C. , Fahlén, J. , Strittmatter, A. , Beyer Broch, T. & Skille, E. Å. (2017). Exclusion and inclusion in puzzling together the NSO-board: hierarchies of criteria in board nomination processes. In: Proceedings of the Sport Management Australia and New Zealand Conference, Gold Coast 2017. Paper presented at The Sport Management Australia and New Zealand Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, November 30-December 1, 2017.
Strittmatter, A. (2017). Legitimation Processes of Sport Organizations: The Case of Norwegian Youth Sport Policy and the 2016 Lillehammer Winter Youth Olympic Games. In: Proceedings of the 7^th Innsbruck Sport Business and Management Symposium, Innsbruck 2017. Paper presented at The 7th Innsbruck Sport Business and Management Symposium, Innsbruck, Austria, 2017.
Strittmatter, A. , Kilvinger, B. , Bodemar, A. , Skille, E. & Kurscheidt, M. (2017). Nation-based versus industry-based governance of freestyle sports: An institutional analysis of the Olympic impact on international snowboarding. In: Proceedings of the North American Society for Sport Management Conference, Denver 2017. Paper presented at The North American Society for Sport Management Conference, Denver, USA, May 31-June 3, 2017.
Strittmatter, A. (2016). A little less conversation, a little more action please!: Recruiting young leaders into national Olympic sport systems. In: Proceedings of the World Congress of the Sociology of Sports. Paper presented at The World Congress of the Sociology of Sports, Budapest, Hungary, June 8-11, 2016.
Strittmatter, A. (2016). Boosting Youth Sport?: Implementation of Norwegian youth sport policy through the 2016 Lillehammer Winter Youth Olympic Games. In: Proceedings of the World Congress of the Sociology of Sports. Paper presented at The 7th International Sport Business Symposium, Lillehammer, Norway, February 16, 2016.
Klivinger, B. & Strittmatter, A. (2016). Freestyle Sports and Olympic Games: A Governance Analysis of International Freestyle Snowboarding. In: Proceedings of the 6^th Innsbruck Sport Business and Management Symposium. Paper presented at The 6th Innsbruck Sport Business and Management Symposium, Innsbruck, Austria, 2016.
Bodemar, A. & Strittmatter, A. (2016). Institutional settings and young professional leaders’ perceptions at sports events. In: Proceedings of the World Congress of the Sociology of Sports. Paper presented at The World Congress of the Sociology of Sports, Budapest, Hungary, June 8-11, 2016.
Kristiansen, E. , Strittmatter, A. & Skirstad, B. (2016). Stakeholders, Challenges and Issues at a Co-hosted Youth Olympic Event: Lessons Learned from European Youth Olympic Festival 2015. In: Proceedings of the 7^th International Sport Business Symposium. Paper presented at The 7th International Sport Business Symposium, Lillehammer, Norway, February 16, 2016.
Kristian, E. , Strittmatter, A. & Skirstad, B. (2015). Co-hosting Olympic Events: Lessons Learned from European Youth Olympic Festival 2015. In: Proceedings of the 23rd European Association for Sport Management Conference, Dublin 2015. Paper presented at The 23rd European Association for Sport Management Conference, Dublin, Ireland, September 9-12, 2015. European Association for Sport Management.
Strittmatter, A. & Skille, E. Å. (2015). With Random Actions towards Inefficiency: the implementation of Norwegian youth sport policy through the 2016 Lillehammer Winter Youth Olympic Games. In: Proceedings of the 23rd European Association for Sport Management Conference, Dublin 2015. Paper presented at The 23rd European Association for Sport Management Conference, Dublin, Ireland, September 9-12, 2015.
Strittmatter, A. (2014). Bidding for the Youth Olympic Games: a Contribution to Norwegian Youth Sport?. In: Proceedings of the 22nd European Association for Sport Management Conference, Coventry 2014. Paper presented at The 22nd European Association for Sport Management Conference, Coventry, England, September 9-12, 2014. European Association for Sport Management.
Strittmatter, A. (2014). Lifting up the Youth?: The Norwegian youth sport policy and the Youth Olympic Games. In: Proceedings of the 22nd European Association for Sport Management Conference, Coventry 2014. Paper presented at The 22nd European Association for Sport Management Conference, Coventry, September 9-12, 2014.
Skirstad, B. & Strittmatter, A. (2013). Managing Football Organizations: a Man’s World?. In: Proceedings of the 21st European Association for Sport Management Conference, Istanbul 2013. Paper presented at The 21st European Association for Sport Management Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, September 11-15, 2013. European Association for Sport Management.

Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries

Strittmatter, A. (2017). Legitimation Processes of Sport Organizations: The Case of Norwegian Youth Sport Policy and the 2016 Lillehammer Winter Youth Olympic Games. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Oslo: Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.

Reports

Strittmatter, A. , Skirstad, B. & Sogn, H. (2021). Gender Gap Identification and Analysis: PROmoting GendeR Equality in Sports.. PROGRES: Norwegian Fotball Association.
Strittmatter, A. (2020). Ung medbestemmelse i norsk idrett: Evaluerings- og utredningsarbeid om barrierene og behovene for å øke ung medbestemmelse i særforbund og idrettskretser. Oslo: Norges idrettsforbund.
Skirstad, B. , Strittmatter, A. & Grønkjær, A. B. (2019). Sport Management in Norway: Present and Future Trends. Oslo: Norges idrettsforbund.
Skirstad, B. & Strittmatter, A. (2018). New Age of Sport Management Education in Europe (NASME): Sub-report by Norway. Oslo: Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.
Hanstad, D. V. , Kristiansen, E. , Sand, T. S. , Skirstad, B. & Strittmatter, A. (2016). Frivillige på Ungdoms-OL 2016. Oslo: Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.
Strittmatter, A. & Hanstad, D. V. (2015). Lederkurs for ungdom : Rapport på samling i Lillehammer. Oslo: Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.