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It was hypothesized that as the system size increases: (1) its marginal influence on structural differentiation decreases; (2) the average size of its structural components increases; (3) the proportionate size of the average structural components decreases; (4) the supervisory span of control increases; (5) the proportionate size of the administrative component decreases; (6) the economy of scale in the administrative component decrease; (7) the ratio of the administrative component increases indirectly through the structural differentiation generated by the increased system size; (8) the direct negative effect of system size of sport organizations on the ratio of the administrative component is stronger than the indirect positive effect medicated by the structural differentiation; and (9) the indirect positive effect of system size of sport organization through structural differentiation stems the decline in the economy of scale in the administrative component. It was also hypothesized that: (10) the relationships among system size, structural differentiation, and the administrative component in growing sport organizations are different from those in declining ones; (11) the rank-frequency distribution of personnel in subunits of sport organizations approximates a harmonic series; and (12) the ratio of the force of unification to the force of diversification increases at a decreasing rate as the system size of sport organizations increases. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.)","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T11:53:18Z (GMT). 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