Sport and social entrepreneurship in Sweden / [electronic resource] Edited by Tomas Peterson, Katarina Schenker.

Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Authors; Chapter 1: Introduction; About the Anthology; References; Chapter 2: Sweden: The Societal Setting; The Swedish Sports Model: Some Characteristics; A Great Many Citizens Doing Sport and Physical Exercise; A Popular-Movement Tradition; Comprehensive Broad Child and Youth Sport; Comprehensive Public Sports Support on Welfare Policy Grounds; An Implicit Social Contract between the Sports Movement and the State; Sports Policy Transformation Processes in the Twenty-First Century. Declining Activity Levels within Child and Youth SportsCommercialization Trends and Increased Costs of Child and Youth Sports; Increasing State Control and Increasing State Expectations; Social Entrepreneurship in a Swedish Sports Context; References; Chapter 3: Social Entrepreneurship in an International Context; Introduction; Schools of Thought in Social Entrepreneurship; Scope and Focus of Previous Research; Ambiguous Ways of Understanding the Concept; Empirical Articlesâ#x80;#x99; Use of the Concept; Conclusion; References. Chapter 4: A Definition of Sport and Social EntrepreneurshipAspects to Be Clarified; KIOSK: A Voluntary YMCA Club in the City Centre; Defining Social Entrepreneurship in a Sports Policy Context; Five Theses; Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 5: The Cases; The Cases; Enjoy Water; Equestrian Ventures; Football for Integration; Mapping; Pre-emptive Activity; The Sports Club on the Island; The Theses; Thesis 1: The Normative â#x80;#x98;Socialâ#x80;#x99;; Theses 2 and 3: Sport and Money as a Means to Reach Social Goals; Theses 4 and 5: Crossing Boundaries. Chapter 6: Social Entrepreneurship, Sport and Democracy DevelopmentIntroduction; Democracy, Participation and Influence; Recognition as a Prerequisite for Exercising Democracy; Sport and Democracy in Sweden; Social Communities; Two Empirical Cases; Case 1: Football for Integration; Case 2: The Sports Club on the Island; Conclusion and Discussion; References; Chapter 7: Ethics in Researching Sport and Social Entrepreneurship; Ethics in Relation to Sport and Social Entrepreneurship; The Role of the Researcher; Case Studies. Ethical Dilemmas in the Practice of Social EntrepreneurshipEthical Dilemmas in Doing Research on Social Entrepreneurship; The Complexity of Ethical Dilemmas; Considerations; References; Chapter 8: A Methodological Tool for Researching Sport and Social Entrepreneurship; Analytical Tool; Contextualization; As a Researcher, Define the Concept of Social in Relation to the Context; Identify and Examine the Embedded Social Values in the Actions; Examine the Boundary Crossing; Examine the Sustainability; Ethical Reflections; Concluding Remarks; References; Index.

This edited collection explores the concept of social entrepreneurship in sport, examining how it has been used in Swedish society to date. It explores how this approach in sport could also be used to address wider socio-political issues, including economic, political, cultural and pedagogical in European society. Sport and Social Entrepreneurship in Sweden explores different social entrepreneurship projects which have created new forms of activity and reached groups of children and young people previously disengaged in sport. The authors also highlight the growing momentum of this kind of entrepreneurship in Sweden after a period of societal upheaval that has resulted in a blurring of social borders and the founding of new organisational forms. This book contributes to the formation of a new field of research, involving theoretical and empirical work on the characteristics and possibilities of social entrepreneurship in relation to sport.