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Corporate social responsibility in professional team sports organizations: an integrative review

journal contribution
posted on 2018-11-01, 00:00 authored by Stefan Walzel, Jonathan RobertsonJonathan Robertson, Christson Anagnostopolous
Professional team sports organizations (PTSOs) are highly influential in our society. They can both positively and negatively shape the public discourse around responsible norms of behavior. The purpose of this article is to describe and critically review the literature on PTSOs’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) to develop a comprehensive understanding of current and future research directions in the field. Our analysis reviewed articles on CSR within PTSOs and identified publication year; geographical dispersion; journal type; sports contexts; social issues investigated; research approaches and methods; and how CSR was conceptualized, defined, and theoretically supported. The findings indicate that CSR within PTSOs has primarily been investigated in community programs, using qualitative research methods and pragmatically conceptualizing CSR on the basis of return on investments to the organization in European and North American contexts. Our discussion provides a critical review of the literature before outlining avenues for future research and practice.

History

Journal

Journal of sport management

Volume

32

Issue

6

Pagination

511 - 530

Publisher

Human Kinetics

Location

Champaign, Ill.

ISSN

0888-4773

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2018, Human Kinetics, Inc.