Research Handbook on Corporate Social Responsibility in Sport by Anagnostopoulos, Christos;

Short description:

Christos Anagnostopoulos brings together a diverse range of leading experts in this comprehensive Research Handbook to examine how corporate social responsibility (CSR) in sport has grown from a fledgling concept to a robust field of research and practice.

Long description:

Christos Anagnostopoulos brings together a diverse range of leading experts in this comprehensive Research Handbook to examine how corporate social responsibility (CSR) in sport has grown from a fledgling concept to a robust field of research and practice.

Highlighting sport's ability to catalyze societal change, this Research Handbook critically evaluates the CSR-sport relationship through cultural, social and economic lenses. International and multidisciplinary authors advance cutting-edge research, incorporating critical approaches and multi-cultural perspectives. Chapters cover CSR strategies implemented by FIFA, the Chinese Basketball Association and UK Sport, among others, to show how sport can foster community and sustainability in diverse cultural and political contexts. This Research Handbook will serve as a strong foundation for future researchers to address the most pressing issues facing the sport ecosystem.

This is an invaluable resource for business students and researchers studying the latest conceptual frameworks of sports management and CSR. Practitioners and sports philanthropists will also find the research presented here useful for developing their own CSR and ESG strategies.

‘The Research Handbook on Corporate Social Responsibility in Sport remains faithful to its central theme – CSR in sport – while effectively delivering a diverse and in-depth exploration of the subject. It can serve as a valuable resource in numerous sport management courses, including those on sport communication, sport sociology, sport marketing, and sport and culture. The accessible yet academically rigorous writing style ensures its relevance not only for students but also for instructors and practitioners seeking practical insights. Furthermore, it provides timely and applicable guidance for readers aiming to deepen their understanding of CSR or to develop effective, real-world CSR strategies.’

Table of Contents:

Contents
Foreword xiii
1 Introduction to the Research on Corporate Social Responsibility in Sport 1
Christos Anagnostopoulos
PART I FRAMING CSR IN SPORT
2 Conceptualizing the contingent nature of social responsibility in sport 35
Jonathan Robertson, Rochelle Eime and Hans Westerbeek
3 The social responsibility of nonprofit sport organizations: a rapid literature
review 53
Géraldine Zeimers and Pierre Léonard
4 Critical view of corporate social responsibility in sport, colonialism and
power: neoliberalism and Foucaudian analysis 77
Umer Hussain
5 Financial impact of corporate social responsibility in sport: towards a
research agenda 95
Christina Philippou
6 Culture and corporate social responsibility: the case of Chinese
professional football 111
Bingjie Wang, Do Young Pyun and Joe Piggin
7 Corporate social responsibility in the workplace: Which role for sports and
physical activity? 125
Yann Baup, Bénédicte Vignal and Guillaume Bodet
8 The charitable foundation model of corporate social responsibility
implementation: the case of French professional team sport organizations 143
Werner Boucher, Aurélien François and Nadine Dermit-Richard
9 Delving into the intersection of governance and social responsibility in
sport: re-conceptualizing fair play through the kaleidoscope and living
organisms metaphors 165
Charles Owusu Asamoah and Terri Byers
PART II
RESEARCHING CSR OF AND THROUGH SPORT
10 Doing well at doing good: redux 183
Emily Sparvero and Aubrey Kent
11 A sustainability assessment tool for international sport federations 197
Mark Hurst and Emmanuel Bayle
12 Corporate social responsibility through sport for development: social
innovation in nonprofit sport organizations in Barbados 217
Daneka Headley and Terri Byers
13 A legacy of the 2010 FIFA men’s World Cup: social responsibility through
the Football Foundation of South Africa 237
Janice Hemmonsbey and Kamilla Swart
14 Repairing legitimacy through sport-related corporate social responsibility
disclosure in Brazil: the case of Petrobras 257
Victor Pessoa de Melo Gomes and Manuel Castelo Branco
15 A typology of corporate social responsibility in the Chinese Basketball
Association League 277
Zhe Wang, Daniel Read and Lauren Burch
16 Social responsibility through a social impact capacity building program: a
case study of the True Athlete project and UK Sport’s Powered by Purpose
program 295
Davies Banda, Sam Parfitt and Laurence Halsted
17 Corporate social responsibility and stakeholder demands: an umbrella
metaphor and empirical insights from football 317
Dimitrios Kolyperas and Ismini Pavlopoulou
Index 339