Sports Volunteers Around the Globe: Meaning and Understanding of Volunteering and its Societal Impact (Sports Economics, Management and Policy, 15)

This book provides an overview of perspectives and approaches to the cultural meaning of sport volunteering in different countries. The main objective is to reflect on the diversity of meanings with regard to volunteering in different cultures and societies. Additionally, this book will shed light on volunteering practices and the impact of volunteering from both an economic and a sociological perspective. The book begins with an introductory section that gives an overview of the rationale of the text and the diversity of sport volunteers in general. From there, the book's 25 chapters each discuss a specific country case study provided by researchers from the respective country. These studies provide a comprehensive overview of volunteering in each country, such as motivations of volunteers, satisfaction of volunteers, their perceived cost and benefits, and many other areas related to the overall study. By having twenty-five different countries represented and a native of each country authoring the respective chapters, this book serves as a comprehensive and diverse review of sports volunteering around the world and can be incorporated into courses in economics - particularly those dealing with sports economics - and can also be used as a reference for volunteer organizations and sports economists worldwide. Front Matter ....Pages i-vi Introduction (Sheranne Fairley, Kirstin Hallmann)....Pages 1-5 Australia (Sheranne Fairley, Pamm Phillips)....Pages 7-20 Flanders (Belgium) (Erik Thibaut, Jeroen Scheerder)....Pages 21-31 Botswana (Louis Moustakas)....Pages 33-42 Brazil (Ângelo Felipe Müller)....Pages 43-53 Canada (Katie Misener, Kristen Morrison)....Pages 55-68 China (Ye Xing, Sheranne Fairley, Yan Wang, P. Monica Chien)....Pages 69-79 Finland (Hanna Vehmas, Pasi Koski, Kati Lehtonen)....Pages 81-91 The Gambia (Pascal Mamudou Camara, Maximilian Seltmann)....Pages 93-102 Germany (Svenja Feiler, Lea Rossi, Kirstin Hallmann)....Pages 103-113 India (Pritha Chakravarti)....Pages 115-124 Japan (Takahiro Ikeji, Eiji Ito, Sheranne Fairley, Shiro Yamaguchi)....Pages 125-135 The Netherlands (Jo Lucassen, Marieke Reitsma)....Pages 137-149 New Zealand (Richard Keith Wright, Koji Kobayashi)....Pages 151-164 Oman (Hafidh Alriyami, Mohammed Alkharusi, Hamed Almuhrzi)....Pages 165-175 Paraguay (Johannes Regier)....Pages 177-186 Russia (Marina Sukharkova)....Pages 187-199 Slovakia (Alexandra Závadská)....Pages 201-211 South Africa (David Maralack, Donovan Jurgens)....Pages 213-224 South Korea (Geumchan Hwang, Kyu-soo Chung)....Pages 225-235 Spain (Ramón Llopis-Goig, María P. García-Alcober)....Pages 237-248 Sri Lanka (Preben Stai, Nico Schulenkorf, Jane Godfrey, Sean Phelps)....Pages 249-262 Switzerland (Siegfried Nagel, Markus Lamprecht, Torsten Schlesinger, Rahel Bürgi, Hanspeter Stamm)....Pages 263-278 United Kingdom (Fiona Reid, Lindsay Findlay-King)....Pages 279-290 United States (Jeffrey R. Farr, B. Christine Green)....Pages 291-302 Conclusion (Kirstin Hallmann, Sheranne Fairley, Elisa Herold)....Pages 303-310