Sport participation: from policy, through facilities, to users' health, well-being, and social capital

Kumar, Harish ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5240-9508, Manoli, Argyro Elisavet, Hodgkinson, Ian R and Downward, Paul (2018) Sport participation: from policy, through facilities, to users' health, well-being, and social capital. Sport Management Review, 21 (5). pp. 549-562. ISSN 1441-3523

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.smr.2018.01.002

Abstract

Sport delivery systems, aimed at facilitating sports participation, represent an inter-institutional, cross-sector collaboration. Researchers focusing on the impact of different levels of sport provision from policy, through facilities, to end users remains limited. The authors address this gap in knowledge through a mixed- methods approach to examine sport participation from the perspective of the whole delivery system. Specifically, focusing on a County Sport Partnership region in the UK, the authors examine sport participation from the policy (macro), facility (meso), and end user (micro) levels. Regional heads responsible for sport development and delivery participated in semi-structured interviews, facility-level managers completed a survey, and end-users across public, private, and outsourced facilities participated in focus groups. Results show a clear divergence between the sport policy goals across the private and public sectors, with significant differences observed between facility types on their social and commercial objectives and their prioritized stakeholder groups. The divergence has little impact on user participation or expression of health, wellbeing, and social capital, offering new evidence on the role of neoliberalism in sport delivery systems.

Item Type:	Article (Article)
Peer-reviewed:	Yes
Date Deposited:	23 Sep 2024 10:51
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis
Additional Information:	This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Sport Management Review and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smr.2018.01.002
Divisions:	Faculties > Business and Law Faculties > Business and Law > People and Performance
Subject terms:	ADULTS, Business & Economics, EXERCISE, GOVERNANCE, Health, Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism, HOUSEHOLD, IMPACT, INFRASTRUCTURE, Management, MODELS, PERSPECTIVE, PHYSICAL-ACTIVITY, Policy, Social capital, Social Sciences, Social Sciences - Other Topics, Sport delivery, Sport participation, TIME-TREND, Wellbeing, Social Sciences, Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism, Management, Social Sciences - Other Topics, Business & Economics, Sport participation, Sport delivery, Health, Wellbeing, Social capital, Policy, PHYSICAL-ACTIVITY, TIME-TREND, IMPACT, INFRASTRUCTURE, EXERCISE, PERSPECTIVE, GOVERNANCE, HOUSEHOLD, MODELS, ADULTS, 1503 Business and Management, 1504 Commercial Services, 1505 Marketing, Sport, Leisure & Tourism, 3504 Commercial services, 3506 Marketing, 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
URI:	https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/635737
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smr.2018.01.002
ISSN	1441-3523
e-ISSN	1839-2083

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