ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|72 pages
Theories and Histories of Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Sport for Development and Peace
chapter Chapter 1|17 pages
Introduction
chapter Chapter 3|12 pages
Decolonizing sport for development, social innovation, and social entrepreneurship
chapter Chapter 5|14 pages
Generating human-centered social innovation in sport-for-development with design thinking
part II|48 pages
Examples From the Sport for Development and Peace Ground
chapter Chapter 6|10 pages
The role of the Playlab in the creation of open-source solutions
chapter Chapter 8|9 pages
Championing innovation in sport for development and peace
chapter Chapter 10|9 pages
Responding to environmental challenges in Kenya through social entrepreneurship
part III|52 pages
The Possibilities and Constraints of Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Sport for Development and Peace
chapter Chapter 13|12 pages
Exploring the social and political tensions of entrepreneurship in Vietnamese sport for development
part IV|73 pages
Future Directions? Musings on What Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Could Look Like in Post-Pandemic Sport for Development and Peace