Organizational Communication and Sport: Connections, Applications, and Opportunities

This edited volume highlights the unique significance of the complex and ever-changing role that communication plays in the operation and management of sports organizations as it continually presents new challenges and opportunities for practitioners. An international roster of scholars draw on a combination of existing scholarship and contemporary case studies on a broad range of topics, including whistleblowing, athlete safeguarding, sexual harassment, leadership, marketing, and social justice advocacy, to provide a diverse approach to the study of organizational communication in sport. Ultimately, this volume provides both practical applications and directions for further research for an audience of both scholars and practitioners interested in the organizational communication dynamics in the sport industry.