1st Edition

New Perspectives on Sport Volunteerism

Edited By Berit Skirstad, Alison Doherty, Vassil Girginov Copyright 2015
156 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

The book highlights ‘new perspectives’ on volunteerism in sport, covering frameworks, methods, context and variables on several levels from community sport clubs to international events. In analysing the processes of control within voluntary sport clubs, a new theoretical framework – critical realism (CR) – challenges how we think about theory and how scientific inquiry should proceed. Further... Read more

1. Introduction

Berit Skirstad, Alison Doherty and Vassil Girginov

2. Using Critical Realism: A new Perspective on Control of Volunteers in Sport Clubs

Terri Beyers

3. "Continue or Terminate?" Determinants of Long-Term Volunteering in Sports Clubs

Torsten Schlesinger, Benjamin Egli and Siegfried Nagel

4. Changing roles: Applying continuity theory to understanding the transition from playing to volunteering in community sport

Graham Cuskelly and Wendy O'Brien

5. Front line insight: an autoethnography of the Vancouver 2010 volunteer experience

Erin Kodama, Alison Doherty and Megan Popovic

6. Development of a Hierarchical Model of Sport Volunteers' Organizational Commitment

Se-Hyuk Park and May Kim

7. A multi-level framework for investigating the engagement of sport volunteers

Pamela Wicker and Kristin Hallmann

Biography

Berit Skirstad is an Associate Professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Management, Oslo, Norway.

Alison Doherty is a Professor of Sport Management in the School of Kinesiology, Western University, Canada.

Vassil Girginov is a Reader in Sport Management/Development in the Department of Life Sciences, Brunel University, London, England.