Stimulating the adoption of green practices by professional football organisations: a focus on stakeholders’ pressures and expected benefits

Niccolò Maria Todaro, Brian McCullough and Tiberio Daddi

Sport Management Review, 2023, vol. 26, issue 1, 156-180

Abstract: The authors investigate drivers and expected outcomes of the adoption of environmental practices by football organizations. Based on a survey of European professional football organizations, the authors examine the influence of stakeholders’ pressures on adopting environmental practices, distinguishing between operational and governance practices. The relationship between the adoption of environmental practices and expected benefits is examined. The results partially support the hypothesis of the study, highlighting pressures from market and societal stakeholders as relevant drivers of environmental sustainability in the football sector and identifying a wide range of expected benefits resulting from the adoption of operational and governance practices. Drivers and expected outcomes of the adoption of environmental practices by professional football organizations are examined.The authors distinguish operational and governance practices to provide a nuanced analysis of environmental practices in the football sector.Pressures from market and societal stakeholders emerge as relevant drivers of the adoption of both operational and governance practices.Pressures from football institutions (at national and international levels) positively influence the adoption of governance practices, rather than operational practices.Environmental practices are associated with a wide range of expected benefits, ranging from environmental performance improvements to business benefits.

Date: 2023
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14413523.2022.2046971 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:rsmrxx:v:26:y:2023:i:1:p:156-180

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/rsmr20

DOI: 10.1080/14413523.2022.2046971

Access Statistics for this article

Sport Management Review is currently edited by Sheranne Fairley

More articles in Sport Management Review from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().