Commercial enterprises in the world sports organizations. The case of equestrian establishments

Dans le contexte institutionnel de la cogestion - par les pouvoirs publics et par le monde associatif - de l'offre d'activites sportives au public, la forme commerciale de distribution de ces pratiques fait figure d'exception. L'analyse du cas des entreprises equestres proposee dans cet article permet de questionner en creux les ressorts d'un "service public du sport" en apesanteur economique et sociale ; de retracer la genese de leur inscription dans un modele entrepreneurial et d'en examiner quelques effets paradoxaux.//In the context of institutional co-management by government authorities and the non-profit sector of the provision of sporting activities to the public, the commercial form of the distribution of these practices is an exception. The analysis of the case of equestrian companies, put forward in this article, allows us to implicitly question the mechanisms of a "public service for sport" disconnected from social and economic foundations. It allows us to retrace the genesis of their inscription in an entrepreneurial model and to examine some paradoxical effects of this. web Reproduced by permission of Bibliothèque de Sciences Po