Financing Sport in the EU: Is That a Business or a Social Enterprise?

Emese Ivan (ivane@stjohns.edu)
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Emese Ivan: St John's University

No 1003549, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: The focus of this paper is to evaluate conceptions, perceptions, and interpretations of ?financing sport? throughout the European continent. The paper will aim to shed light on the ways that policy contexts dictate the application of sport financing as well as sport practices. While many sport facilities were developed from the 1970s onwards it was not until the 1980s and 1990s that a field began to emerge from the utilitarian presumption that the promotion of sport would have beneficial outcomes for social and civic order. This paper would like to focus some attention to the increasing involvement of central and local governments in sport financing despite an ongoing decrease in sport participation worldwide. Moreover, in pursuing this line of interrogation this paper asserts that opportunity structure for the organization and development of sporting activities has shifted from developmental to managerial throughout the 21st century.

Keywords: Sport Economics; Business of Sport; Social Values (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 A13 A19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2015-05
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 15th International Academic Conference, Rome, May 2015, pages 495-504

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