1st Edition
Integrity and Sustainability in Sport Business, Environmental and Social Goals
This is the first book to examine the critically important topic of sustainability in sport through the lens of integrity. Adopting a holistic view on sustainability, it argues that integrity is the foundation on which sustainable sports organisations, actions and processes must be built.
The book shows how the interconnected values of integrity and sustainability can be embedded in sporting organisations, policies and activities. Featuring the work of leading sport researchers from around the world, the book first presents a conceptual model and a framework for understanding sustainability and integrity as applied to sport. It then examines these concepts in the context of sport business, the natural and built environments, and wider society, covering important contemporary issues such as mega-events, legacy, sport governance, climate justice, sport stadia, sport for development, sport sponsorship and marketing, and corporate social responsibility.
Presenting cutting-edge research, and challenging sport practitioners to consider how to embed integrity and sustainability in their everyday work, this book is important reading for any student, researcher, practitioner or policy-maker with an interest in sport, sustainable development and integrity.
Introduction: The Integrity – Sustainability in Sport Framework
Argyro Elisavet Manoli and Ioannis Konstantopoulos
1. Environmental Governance in the Sports Sector: Insights from International Sports Federations
Niccolò Maria Todaro, Alessio Novi, Tiberio Daddi, Bob Ramsak, Riikka Rakic and Tero Kalsta
2. Integrity in Environmental Sustainability Communication: Lessons from Norwegian Sport Organizations
Josephine Traberg and Chris Horbel
3. The Impact of Greenwashing on the Sport Industry: Shades of Deception
4. Volunteers, Integrity and Environmental Sustainability in Grassroots Sport: Learning from the PlayGreen Project
Niki Koutrou and Lyndsey Fox
5. Sustainable Stadiums, Integrity, and Environmental Justice
Timothy Kellison
6. Corporate Social Responsibility, the Sustainable Development Goals and Sport Communication: Analysing Adidas’ CSR Staging on YouTube
Renan Petersen-Wagner and Thadeu Gasparetto
7. Voluntary Sports Clubs, Virtual Communities and Social Sustainability: Evidence from the Netherlands
Nanny Kuijsters-Timmers, John Goedee, Roger Leenders and Argyro Elisavet Manoli
8. Integrity and Digital Sustainability in eSports
Eugenia Tzoumaka, Dimitris Kolyperas and Stella Leivadi
9. Sporting Integrity and Preventing Abuse in Football: A Coherent, Holistic and Systems-Based Approach
Carolynne Mason, Daniel Rhind, James Esson, Argyro Elisavet Manoli and Serhat Yilmaz
10. The Need for Integrity in the Financial Sustainability of Sport
Johnny Hie
11. The Intersection of Business Sustainability and Integrity in Sport
Daniel Plumley and Rob Wilson
Conclusion: The Present and Future Understanding of Integrity and Sustainability in Sport
Argyro Elisavet Manoli and Ioannis Konstantopoulos
Biography
Argyro Elisavet Manoli is Associate Professor at Bergamo University, Italy. Her research focuses on marketing communications management and integrity in sport. Her work on sport integrity has been presented in the European Parliament and has been used in public policy, while she was also invited to deliver opening interventions on all European Commission Expert Group Meetings on Sport Integrity. She is the author of Mapping Corruption in Sport in the EU, a policy report commissioned by the European Union, Integrated Marketing Communications in Football, and Understanding Match-Fixing in Sport: Theory and Practice (Routledge).
Ioannis Konstantopoulos is FNS Researcher at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland and a Scientific Assistant in ETH Zurich. He is also a Sustainability Advisor at Innews, and Founder of The Sports Footprint, a sustainability consultancy that has been awarded the Prince’s Trust International Global Sustainability Award for Europe. Ioannis has also developed several educational courses in sport and sustainability for organisations such as the Football Business Academy, and the International Olympic Academy. His research focuses on analysing the sustainability of major sports events and the application of new technologies in sports.
