Full Description
This book examines the ways in which sport for development and peace (SDP) offers an opportunity for entrepreneurship to take place through and within sport, and how innovation in the context of SDP contributes to social and economic value for underrepresented and marginalised groups and individuals.
Written by a team of leading international SDP researchers, and featuring the voices of active SDP practitioners, the book examines the ways in which entrepreneurs seek to use sport and/or social innovation in and through sport to achieve their goals of social and economic development. It explores the strategies that SDP organizations and practitioners are utilizing in the current neoliberal moment to not only survive during economic hardship - particularly during the COVID 19 crisis - but also to thrive, drawing on important concepts such as innovation, risk taking, proactiveness and opportunity seeking. It also considers how nongovernmental organizations, companies, governments, and communities are working to tackle development issues in SDP using non-traditional forms of organization and management, such as social enterprise models.
Combining cutting-edge research with reflections on best practice in the field, this book is important reading for any advanced student, researcher or practitioner with an interest in the sociology of sport, sport for development, sport management, development studies, social enterprise or innovation.
Contents
Part I: Theories and Histories of Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Sport for Development and Peace, 1. Introduction: Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Sport for Development and Peace, 2. Social Entrepreneurship and Sport for Development and Peace, 3. Decolonizing Sport for Development, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, 4. Institutional Entrepreneurship in Sport for Development and Peace, 5. Generating Human-Centered Social Innovation in Sport-for-Development with Design Thinking, Part II: Examples from the Sport for Development and Peace Ground, 6. The Role of the Playlab in the Creation of Open-Source Solutions: PLAY International, 7. A Social Enterprise Football Club: Kick4Life, 8. Championing Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace: Women Win, Naz, and Moving the Goalposts, 9. Rethinking Community Activation: Waves for Change, 10. Responding to Environmental Challenges in Kenya through Social Entrepreneurship: Sadili Sports Academy, Part III: The Possibilities and Constraints of Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Sport for Development and Peace, 11. Hybrid Organizational Forms in Sport for Development and Peace, 12. Intraorganizational Factors Associated with Enabling and Sustaining Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace, 13. Exploring the Social and Political Tensions of Entrepreneurship in Vietnamese Sport for Development, 14. Refugees, Social Entrepreneurship, and Sport for Development and Peace, Part IV: Future Directions? Musings on What Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Could Look Like in Post-Pandemic Sport for Development and Peace, 15. Sport for Development and Peace Funding in a Post-Pandemic World, 16. Innovative Approaches to Menstrual Health and Sport for Development: Menstrual Matters, 17. Esport in the Sport for Development and Peace Sector: Innovation and Spheres of Change, 18. Repositioning Sport as an Innovation within National Policy, 19. Concluding Thoughts: Opportunities and Tensions of Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace
