Social Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility in Team Sport Clubs

Ahonen, Aila; Persson, H. Thomas R.

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“…Future research could study different geographic diaspora networks based on ethnicity or location to examine how this affects sport entrepreneurship. Recent research by Ahonen and Persson (2020) found that social entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility is important in sport entrepreneurship. Therefore, future research could extend the findings of this study on diaspora networks by including a social responsibility perspective to how diaspora contacts influence social forms of sport entrepreneurship.…”

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“…Entrepreneurship in a diaspora and sport context has received scarce attention, despite having relevance to the global economy. This is unusual as the sport industry often utilizes the global talent pool to attract the best players and coaches (Ahonen & Persson, 2020). In addition, the social networks and contacts that sport people have are often international in nature and enable them to implement innovative ideas (Steinbrink, Berger, & Kuckertz, 2020).…”

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The role of the diaspora in international sport entrepreneurship

Ratten

2022

Thunderbird Intl Bus Rev

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Sport is one of the most international industries in the world and relies on entrepreneurship to ensure its competitiveness. Due to the COVID‐19 pandemic, the sport industry had to rapidly change and adjust to international border closures and reduced physical contact activity. Many people involved in the sport industry are located outside of their home country and form part of the diaspora network of sport professionals. The diaspora is highly active in the sport industry in terms of disseminating ideas and utilizing their social networks for international entrepreneurial purposes. The aim of this article is to examine the impact of the diaspora on international sport entrepreneurship thereby contributing a novel approach to the international entrepreneurship, sport entrepreneurship and diaspora entrepreneurship fields in a way that has not been contemplated before. A qualitative research methodology is employed to interview sport entrepreneurs about their diaspora and international entrepreneurship activities. This enables a holistic understanding about the role of international public/private partnerships for the success of innovative and futuristic entrepreneurial sport activity. A theoretical framework based on the interview data was developed that incorporated a three‐level process of international drivers, diaspora types and sport entrepreneurship outcomes. A number of research propositions were then derived from the data that highlight how the sport industry is highly international and relies on internationalization to foster new business activity. Policy and managerial implications about the role of diaspora for international sport entrepreneurship are highlighted together with future research suggestions.

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The role of the diaspora in international sport entrepreneurship

Ratten

2022

Thunderbird Intl Bus Rev

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“…A similar concept of CSR-driven innovation in terms of social development has been embedded in recent Nordic works of literature. CSR has been applied as a lens to address the role of entrepreneurs, not only in the line of economic and environmental development but also the societal development context that supports sports clubs in Sweden and Finland (Ahonen & Persson, 2020).…”

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Social Enterprises of Immigrants: A Panacea for the Finnish Labour Market?

Yeasmin

Koivurova

2021

South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases

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Research questions: The objectives of this study are to identify the need for Social Enterprises (SEs) as an alternative form of working in the Finnish labour market, what alternative forms of co-operation between such types of SEs could be and how larger local companies can support the sustainable operation of these small SEs by employing immigrants and the long-term unemployed. Theory: This article draws on the corporate social responsibility CSR theory of traditional enterprises to better explain the factors that can facilitate co-operation between SEs and private enterprises, thereby reaching the sustainable operation of SEs that are run by socially disadvantaged groups of people in Lapland. Phenomenon studied: SE is a new phenomenon in Lapland. There are a few SEs in the region that are struggling to maintain their existence in a sustainable manner. It is harder for the members of such SEs to run businesses or to work and to become successful in Lapland; however, obtaining employment or running a proprietorship is not an alternative (Yeasmin, 2016) for these disadvantaged people. Case context: The article contributes to the studies on the economic integration and labour market sustainability of immigrants and long-term job seekers, and particularly to the socio-economic integration of the long-term unemployed by focusing on the necessity-driven social entrepreneurship networking model in a sparsely populated region, that being the region of Lapland in Northern Finland. Findings: The disadvantaged groups need access to the labour market in Lapland, and social alliances between various partners (e.g., private, public and SE) under different social circumstances (e.g., CSR) can generate alternative options for co-operation to sustain the existence of such SEs in Lapland. An analysis explores future recommendations for co-operation that might sustain SE’s existence and development and might also increase long-term prospects for targeted SEs. Discussion: Lapland-based SEs operated by immigrants or the long-term unemployed are issues and themes that do not fall within the responsibility of any single authority or any single sector. Successfully running SEs demands positive interaction and social innovation strategies among many social partners. Networking with a variety of public stakeholder groups alongside the private sector needs to see an investment of social resources for mapping the phenomena on the topic of social economy, which is a social innovation process that might enable such SEs to have successful outcomes in Lapland.

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“…An increasing number of firms that exist and operate outside or in parallel to the sport industry have started manifesting their social responsibility through sport (Djaballah, Hautbois and Desbordes, 2017). This often occurs by innovative approaches (Hayduk III, 2020;Pounder, 2019;Ratten and Ferreira, 2016) that foster entrepreneurship at local, national and international level (Baier-Fuentes et al, 2019;Crespo and Aurélio, 2020) as well as social entrepreneurship in and through sport (Ahonen and Persson, 2020;Miragaia et al, 2017). In other words, without necessarily restricting their initiatives in the local communities where they mainly reside, more and more firms see meaning in employing CSR through professional sports teams (Sheth and Babiak, 2010), sport federations (Zeimers et al, 2019), sports charities (Anagnostopoulos et al, 2017;Kolyperas et al, 2016), athletes (Tainsky and Babiak, 2011), or sporting events (Batty, Cuskelly and Toohey, 2016), not least at international level (Ratten, 2011).…”

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Sport as a vehicle for implementing corporate social responsibility: firms listed on the Warsaw and Moscow Stock Exchanges

Carril

Anagnostopoulos

Żyśko

2021

EJIM

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This paper provides a descriptive account of the extent to which firms listed on the Warsaw (WSE) and Moscow (MSE) Stock Exchanges use sport for their corporate social responsibility agendas. Drawing on institutional isomorphism, we deductively categorised CSR through sport cases based on the framework developed by Bason and Anagnostopoulos (2015). A total of 1,317 documents were content-analysed, 442 from WSE firms and 875 from MSE firms. A total of 2,501 CSR-through-sport initiatives were reported over the five-year period studied (2013-2017) in the WSE case and 2175 in the MSE case. Our results show that internationally listed firms are increasingly embracing sport for their CSR programmes, with the 'personnel engagement' stream seeing a constant increase, followed by 'sponsorship' and 'philanthropic' initiatives. The young generation takes the lion's share when it comes to being the beneficiaries of these CSR programmes, whereas 'sport participation' constitutes the basis of most such programmes.

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Social Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility in Team Sport Clubs

Cited by 4 publications

References 37 publications

The role of the diaspora in international sport entrepreneurship

The role of the diaspora in international sport entrepreneurship

Social Enterprises of Immigrants: A Panacea for the Finnish Labour Market?

Sport as a vehicle for implementing corporate social responsibility: firms listed on the Warsaw and Moscow Stock Exchanges

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