2015 Volume 12 Issue 1 Pages 25-38
The purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics of the social capital formed by the managers of community sport clubs based on the comparison between specified nonprofit corporation clubs and voluntary organization clubs. In this study, the managers of eighteen community sport clubs in the Kinki region were selected as samples. Ten of these clubs were specified nonprofit corporations and eight of these clubs were voluntary organizations. Interviews were conducted using the items explored by Dudwick et al.(2006). These survey items were determined by the result of discussion by a research representative and two collaborators. A hierarchical cluster analysis using text mining was adopted to the data operated. There were two main results of this study. First, the characteristics of the social capital formed by the managers of community sport clubs having specific nonprofit corporation were to make much of the networks built among neighbor community sport clubs, local governments and community groups through their cooperation with each other. Second, the characteristics of the social capital formed by the managers of community sport clubs voluntarily organized were to make much of the networks built among inner groups through coordinating the use of school facilities. These findings suggested that the social capital formed by the managers of community sport clubs having specific nonprofit corporation tended to spread out outer clubs, while the social capital formed by the managers of community sport clubs voluntarily organized tended to close toward inner groups.
