Tag: organization studies

Sport organisations increasingly are expected and encouraged to take up a wider social role. Thus, sport organisations and sport clubs in particular, tend to be more involved in dealing with societal issues. Next to this social role for local communities, a number of sport organisations seem to be explicitly taking up their social responsibility, through an active position against organisational problems like exclusionary practices or corruption.

The aim of this special issue is to develop a library of teaching case studies appropriate for undergraduate and graduate courses in organizational behavior that can be used in case study pedagogy. The scope of this special issue is broad in terms of industry context, and the range of topics includes content commonly covered in organizational behavior courses.

This special issue seeks to cast a fresh and state-of-the-art eye on how positive organizational behaviour (POB) shapes and influences the workplace within the sport organisational context. There is still much to learn about how and why POB and a variety of outcomes at work are interlinked, let alone when “there is extensive variability in the scope and size of sport organisations”.

Conceptual, theoretical and empirical works drawing on and engaging with positive organisational behaviour are welcome for this issue. We hope that this issue will inspire and encourage scholars to expand their research horizons to investigate employees in flourishing sport organisations.