Volunteering in community sports associations : : a literature review / / by Geoff Nichols.
This review paper focuses on volunteers in community sports associations (CSAs). Such associations are a major context of sports volunteering across Europe, Canada and Australia—the countries in which a multitude of sports clubs are represented by governing bodies of sport. Their importance is not o...
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| Superior document: | Brill Research Perspectives |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill Research Perspectives.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (75 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The number of sports clubs, club membership, and volunteering
- Explaining a trend toward individual participation in sport and volunteering , and a reduction in the number of CSAS
- Conceptualizing community sports associations and volunteering
- Motivations of sports volunteers
- Challenges facing community sports clubs' volunteers and leaders
- Management and leadership of volunteers in CSAS: applying a rational systems approach and the pros and cons of formality
- Community sports associations and social capital
- The relationship between CSAS and even volunteering
- Conclusions.