Special issue of Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal

This special issue, published in September, was edited by Professor Kate Westberg from RMIT University’s Consumer Wellbeing Research Group and Associate Professor Sarah Jane Kelly from the UQ Business School at The University of Queensland.

Prompted by the rising globalisation and commercialisation of sport, there has been a growing research agenda focussing on wellbeing in sport, encompassing the physical and mental health of athletes, community health issues associated with sport and the role of sport as a vehicle for positive social change. Sport and recreation have become matters of increasing policy concern around the world, with growing empirical recognition of the wide-ranging positive developmental, social and health impacts of sport. Research attention directed toward sport and wellbeing traverses multiple fields including science, psychology, economics, law, marketing, management and sociology. This special issue presents a variety of perspectives addressing the critical notion of wellbeing in sport, examining key stakeholders in the sport ecosystem including athletes, consumers, sports employees and communities more broadly.

For more information on the papers included in the special issue, please see the following link to the Journal’s website: https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/2042-678X/vol/9/iss/4