« Nous sommes tous frères ». Les valeurs des Elephants de Brother, club de baseball professionnel à Taiwan
In Taiwan, where baseball is considered as the national sport, professional teams are owned by large local firms and are not formally attached to a municipality. They are themselves small companies offering an archetypal society, whose mode of internal operations are based on values around which to...
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| description | In Taiwan, where baseball is considered as the national sport, professional teams are owned by large local firms and are not formally attached to a municipality. They are themselves small companies offering an archetypal society, whose mode of internal operations are based on values around which to unite their fans. Based on an ethnographic study of twelve months, particularly among the professional team of Brother Elephants, this contribution will show how it is to be seen as an enterprise structured around moral values understood as traditional and whose players are established as paragons. The model of a united family and strictly hierarchical is highlighted by the owners of the club and its iconography. But these representations are faced with the reality of daily practice and corruption that regularly undermine the image of the Taiwanese professional league. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a50e41cf18b746c98268bc2293fb22442022-12-22T01:39:37ZengUniversité de ProvenceMoussons1620-32242262-83632013-06-0121799910.4000/moussons.2133« Nous sommes tous frères ». Les valeurs des Elephants de Brother, club de baseball professionnel à TaiwanJérôme SoldaniIn Taiwan, where baseball is considered as the national sport, professional teams are owned by large local firms and are not formally attached to a municipality. They are themselves small companies offering an archetypal society, whose mode of internal operations are based on values around which to unite their fans. Based on an ethnographic study of twelve months, particularly among the professional team of Brother Elephants, this contribution will show how it is to be seen as an enterprise structured around moral values understood as traditional and whose players are established as paragons. The model of a united family and strictly hierarchical is highlighted by the owners of the club and its iconography. But these representations are faced with the reality of daily practice and corruption that regularly undermine the image of the Taiwanese professional league.http://journals.openedition.org/moussons/2133Taiwanprofessional baseball clubfamily firmsocial responsibilitymoral valuesethic |
| spellingShingle | Jérôme Soldani « Nous sommes tous frères ». Les valeurs des Elephants de Brother, club de baseball professionnel à Taiwan Moussons Taiwan professional baseball club family firm social responsibility moral values ethic |
| title | « Nous sommes tous frères ». Les valeurs des Elephants de Brother, club de baseball professionnel à Taiwan |
| title_full | « Nous sommes tous frères ». Les valeurs des Elephants de Brother, club de baseball professionnel à Taiwan |
| title_fullStr | « Nous sommes tous frères ». Les valeurs des Elephants de Brother, club de baseball professionnel à Taiwan |
| title_full_unstemmed | « Nous sommes tous frères ». Les valeurs des Elephants de Brother, club de baseball professionnel à Taiwan |
| title_short | « Nous sommes tous frères ». Les valeurs des Elephants de Brother, club de baseball professionnel à Taiwan |
| title_sort | nous sommes tous freres les valeurs des elephants de brother club de baseball professionnel a taiwan |
| topic | Taiwan professional baseball club family firm social responsibility moral values ethic |
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