Corporate Social Responsibility in the Scottish Premier League: Context and Motivation

Developing CSR in professional football clubs: drivers and phases

“…Celtic, Rangers) and others reporting CSR intermittently. Consistent with Hamil and Morrow (2011) this reveals that CSR receives little attention in annual reporting, and when it does, it tends to be in a rather legalistic manner.…”

“…Insert Table 2 here Hamil and Morrow, 2011;Anagnostopoulos and Shilbury, 2013;Anagnostopoulos et al, 2014). This research design has an advantage in that it recognizes that factors such as corporate governance models, organizational culture, and club size might restrict the development of CSR from an organizational perceptive, whereas a disadvantage lies in its inability to encapsulate perceptions towards CSR from other affected stakeholders (i.e.…”

Power and logics in Scottish football: the financial collapse of Rangers FC

“…While there is widespread acceptance of football club businesses as stakeholder organisations, with supporters identified as key stakeholders therein (see, for example, Brown et al, 2006;Brown et al, 2008;Hamil, 1999;Hamil and Morrow, 2011;Morrow, 2003;Senaux, 2008) to take steps to alter the institutional arrangements and logics prevailing in the field.…”

Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Value in the Sport Recreation Sector: A Review

“…Barney (1991), Balabanis et al (1998) and Jones (1995) document that corporate relations with stakeholders based on honesty, mutual trust and cooperation have greater probability to lead to competitive advantages which in turn can lead to enhance financial performance. Several researchers have provided empirical evidence that CSR could be a source of competitive advantage (Porter and Kramer, 2006;Inoue and Lee, 2011) and that CSR activities positively affect various aspects of firm performance within various sectors of economic activity (industrial, financial firms, services firms, etc) like firm reputation (Brammer and Millington, 2005), consumer satisfaction (Luo and Bhattacharya, 2006), employee commitment (Peterson, 2004;Plewa and Quester, 2011), cost of capital (Cheng et al, 2006), improved profitability and stock market performance (Kim and Kim, 2014;Elliott et al, 2014;Hillman and Keim, 2001;McGuire et al, 1988;Nelling and Webb, 2009;Hamil and Morrow, 2011). Also a recent study by Mallin et al (2014) indicated that CSR activities in Islamic banks adhere to the stakeholder theory which suggests a positive association between CSR and financial performance.…”

“…Thus, the active communication of CSR initiatives to customers and the local community can enhance corporate reputation, credibility and economic performance. Additionally, Salome et al (2012) and Hamil and Morrow (2011) argue that despite the fact that CSR initiatives and environmental responsibility have dramatically grown in the sport industry in the last few years, there is little academic and empirical research on the direct link between CSR on sport and financial performance (Walters, 2012).…”