Sports for Society: Reviewing Institutional Work, Logics and Fields in Sports

This chapter aims at reviewing institutional theory literature that tackled logics, work and fields as well as their underlying concepts in the context of sports, while emphasising studies that tackled societal causes. The authors extend the scoping review of Robertson et al. (2021), who tackled all sport studies relevant to the authors’ constructs until 2019. The authors do this by conducting a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of sport studies that utilised the constructs of institutional logics, work and fields between 2020 and 2024. The authors analyse the articles from multiple angles, such as common societal themes, geographic allocation and common methodologies. The authors also pinpoint gaps and offer some recommendations for utilising institutional theory constructs in tackling social causes related to sports.