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3. Reaching Its Institutional Limits: 1981–1993

Author : Hans Erik Næss

Published in: A History of Organizational Change

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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By theorising the ‘compatibility’ and ‘centrality’ of different institutional logics as a way to assess the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile’s (FIA’s) organisational limits, this chapter reviews the FIA’s institutional integration of commercial, political, and sporting elements. After the Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile (FISA)–Formula One Constructors’ Association (FOCA) war ended in 1981 with the Concorde Agreement, Balestre reinforced his position by becoming president of both FISA and FIA in 1985. Shortly after, however, the organisation faced a new wave of criticism. This chapter therefore retraces the period between 1981 and 1993 by first reviewing the FIA’s inconsistent view of racing in apartheid South Africa, then it turns to the FIA World Rally Championship, whose early success was halted by sporting tragedies and hasty decisions by the FISA, leading to a lawsuit by Peugeot which threatened the FIA’s very existence. On top of that, the new Concorde Agreement signed in 1987 led the FIA into trouble as Balestre did not realise the extent of the new deal or the precedent it set of a relation with Ecclestone that for the FIA would prove difficult to survive without a considerable rethink.

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Title: Reaching Its Institutional Limits: 1981–1993
Author: Hans Erik Næss
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: A History of Organizational Change
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-48269-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-48270-1

Copyright Year: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48270-1_3

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