Sport and Social Entrepreneurship in Sweden

Tomas Peterson is Senior Professor at Malmö University, Sweden, and Professor II at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. His research areas include sport and social entrepreneurship, the professionalization of Swedish football, and sport politics. Katarina Schenker is Senior Lecturer in Sport Sciences at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her research interests concern the inclusion and exclusion of children and youth in physical education and health, and in the state-funded Swedish sports movement.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Sweden - The Societal Setting.- 3. Social Entrepreneurship in an International Contex.- 4. A Definition of Sport and Social Entrepreneurship.- 5. The Cases.- 6. Social Entrepreneurship, Sport and Democracy Development.- 7. Ethics in Researching Sport and Social Entrepreneurship.- 8. A Methodological Tool for Researching Sport and Social Entrepreneurship.

“It is immensely exciting to see that Peterson and Schenker (eds.) have put together this anthology on social entrepreneurship in Swedish sport. … an anthology such as Sport and Social Entrepreneurship in Sweden is both important and timely. … it represents a useful and meaningful step in the conceptual development of social entrepreneurship in sport contexts, and the authors do this brilliantly with the use of their seven cases of social entrepreneurship and sport in Sweden.” (Anne Tjønndal, idrottsforum.org, September, 2018)