Some preliminary questions for environmental justice research in sport management
| Areas of research | Preliminary questions |
|---|---|
| Organization, management, leadership | Given that more corporations have sought to address environmental concerns, what are the effective organizational and managerial strategies for an environmental justice campaign in the sports industry? |
| When environmental concerns in the sport industry need to be addressed, how is the notion of organizational justice manifest, if at all, in different (sport) organization's interactions with its stakeholders? | |
| How can sport organizations restore and repair relations within themselves and with neighboring communities? What are the limitations of a typical firm-centric stakeholder approach to explain the deeply ecological and relational approach inherent in many Indigenous cosmologies? How to overcome these limitations? | |
| Which stakeholders outside the sport industry are likely to form alliances with EJ advocates in the sport industry? | |
| What are the types of leadership within sport organizations that can help to enhance environmental justice actions? What are the limitations therein? | |
| Theory and methodology | What are the ways in which frameworks such as historical materialism, eco-socialism, Critical Race Theory (CRT), settler colonialism, Black, Indigenous, and third-world feminism, queer theory, and environmental justice can be in productive conversation and contribute to the theorization of (in)justice in the sport management literature? |
| What are the action-oriented and/or place-based research methodologies that can be responsibly deployed to explore environmental justice issues in sport management? | |
| Marketing and consumer behavior | How, if possible, can EJ be incorporated within the marketing strategies of different sport organizations? What are the tensions in that process? |
| How, if possible, can sustainability-related marketing activities in the sport industry serve to advance EJ as opposed to greenwashing or perpetuating existing environmental injustice? | |
| Is “politicized” consumption or other market-based protests of sport goods and products recognized as a mechanism amongst sport fans regarding environmental justice concerns? | |
| Communication and media | How is EJ discourse being mobilized by different stakeholders in sport? |
| How can EJ discourse be more effectively mobilized to enhance EJ projects and efforts that center or revolve around sport? How can EJ organizations recognize and resist the deployment of EJ discourse by corporate stakeholders? | |
| How are environmental justice issues in sport communicated in the media, if any, and particularly, how “science” has been used by various stakeholders in their communicative strategies? | |
| Facility and event management | What does it mean to host environmentally just sporting events? Amongst many stakeholders involved, whose voice is heard and whose is not? |
| How can the development of new sport facilities be aligned with environmental justice concerns raised by communities that are most impacted by the project? | |
| Law and regulation | How can EJ (all three paradigmatic frameworks) be more effectively achieved through legislation in specific contexts? What are the unintended consequences? |
| How can Indigenous legal frameworks regarding the environment be recognized and respected in the development of sport facilities in settler colonial states? | |
| Political economy | How can the sport industry's imperative of growth for profit reconcile with the demand of less environmental impact, particularly in ecologically vulnerable regions of the world? |
| What are the examples of sport organizations in the Global North to participate in the divestment movement, and ethically deploy their high-profile platform to amplify environmental perspectives that have been subjugated so far? | |
| Finance | How can sport organizations and events leverage their important role to encourage corporations in pursuing environmentally just business strategies? |
| What is the real cost associated with marginalized communities affected by environmental injustice due to sport-related development, including the emerging alliance between sport and crypto-business? | |
| Human resource management (activism/advocacy) | What are the opportunities, challenges, and limitations for athletes and other workers in sport organizations to connect racial and economic injustice with environmental justice within sport? |
| Sport for development | How have sport for development (SfD) projects addressed the conundrum of receiving funding from the fossil fuel industry that might be actively producing negative environmental consequences for the communities that SfD seeks to support? |
| Corporate social responsibility | How can sport organizations go beyond CSR initiatives to lend financial and infrastructural support to non-traditionally “environmental” organizations (Ranganathan and Bratman, 2021)? |
| Areas of research | Preliminary questions |
|---|---|
| Organization, management, leadership | Given that more corporations have sought to address environmental concerns, what are the effective organizational and managerial strategies for an environmental justice campaign in the sports industry? |
| When environmental concerns in the sport industry need to be addressed, how is the notion of organizational justice manifest, if at all, in different (sport) organization's interactions with its stakeholders? | |
| How can sport organizations restore and repair relations within themselves and with neighboring communities? What are the limitations of a typical firm-centric stakeholder approach to explain the deeply ecological and relational approach inherent in many Indigenous cosmologies? How to overcome these limitations? | |
| Which stakeholders outside the sport industry are likely to form alliances with EJ advocates in the sport industry? | |
| What are the types of leadership within sport organizations that can help to enhance environmental justice actions? What are the limitations therein? | |
| Theory and methodology | What are the ways in which frameworks such as historical materialism, eco-socialism, Critical Race Theory (CRT), settler colonialism, Black, Indigenous, and third-world feminism, queer theory, and environmental justice can be in productive conversation and contribute to the theorization of (in)justice in the sport management literature? |
| What are the action-oriented and/or place-based research methodologies that can be responsibly deployed to explore environmental justice issues in sport management? | |
| Marketing and consumer behavior | How, if possible, can EJ be incorporated within the marketing strategies of different sport organizations? What are the tensions in that process? |
| How, if possible, can sustainability-related marketing activities in the sport industry serve to advance EJ as opposed to greenwashing or perpetuating existing environmental injustice? | |
| Is “politicized” consumption or other market-based protests of sport goods and products recognized as a mechanism amongst sport fans regarding environmental justice concerns? | |
| Communication and media | How is EJ discourse being mobilized by different stakeholders in sport? |
| How can EJ discourse be more effectively mobilized to enhance EJ projects and efforts that center or revolve around sport? How can EJ organizations recognize and resist the deployment of EJ discourse by corporate stakeholders? | |
| How are environmental justice issues in sport communicated in the media, if any, and particularly, how “science” has been used by various stakeholders in their communicative strategies? | |
| Facility and event management | What does it mean to host environmentally just sporting events? Amongst many stakeholders involved, whose voice is heard and whose is not? |
| How can the development of new sport facilities be aligned with environmental justice concerns raised by communities that are most impacted by the project? | |
| Law and regulation | How can EJ (all three paradigmatic frameworks) be more effectively achieved through legislation in specific contexts? What are the unintended consequences? |
| How can Indigenous legal frameworks regarding the environment be recognized and respected in the development of sport facilities in settler colonial states? | |
| Political economy | How can the sport industry's imperative of growth for profit reconcile with the demand of less environmental impact, particularly in ecologically vulnerable regions of the world? |
| What are the examples of sport organizations in the Global North to participate in the divestment movement, and ethically deploy their high-profile platform to amplify environmental perspectives that have been subjugated so far? | |
| Finance | How can sport organizations and events leverage their important role to encourage corporations in pursuing environmentally just business strategies? |
| What is the real cost associated with marginalized communities affected by environmental injustice due to sport-related development, including the emerging alliance between sport and crypto-business? | |
| Human resource management (activism/advocacy) | What are the opportunities, challenges, and limitations for athletes and other workers in sport organizations to connect racial and economic injustice with environmental justice within sport? |
| Sport for development | How have sport for development (SfD) projects addressed the conundrum of receiving funding from the fossil fuel industry that might be actively producing negative environmental consequences for the communities that SfD seeks to support? |
| Corporate social responsibility | How can sport organizations go beyond CSR initiatives to lend financial and infrastructural support to non-traditionally “environmental” organizations ( |
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