The Value of Sport

This concise and thought-provoking book examines the myths and realities surrounding the wider value of sport. It asks a fundamental question: what is it about sport that leads to grand claims about its supposed capacity to do so many good things for society?

Bob Stewart is a professor and policy consultant in the not-for-profit sector, having had 25 years of experience teaching and researching in the sport management field of study at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia, where he was the sport management programme director. Aaron C.T. Smith is Professor and Director of the University of Canberra Research Institute for Sport and Exercise (UC-RISE) and Professor of Sport Business and Innovation in the Institute for Sport Business at Loughborough University London.

'1. The Value of Sport. 2. The Complexities of Sport. 3. Sport's Competing Narratives. 4. Conceptual Constructs Revisited. 5. The Public Value of Sport. 6. The Capital Value of Sport. 7. The Problem with Sport. 8. The Future of Sport.