RT Article
T1 The blinding effects of team identification on sports corruption: cross-cultural evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 179
IS 2
SP 511
OP 529
A1 Stathopoulou, Anastasia
A1 Quansah, Tommy Kweku
A1 Balabanis, George
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1813812403
AB Although the world of sports has witnessed numerous corruption scandals, the effects of perceived corruption in sports have not been sufficiently investigated in the literature. The aim of this paper is to examine how sports team identification weakens people’s perceptions of corruption in sports, and how it dampens corruption’s negative effects on spectator behavior. The study also examines how prevalent social norms regarding corruption in a country strengthen or weaken these effects. A survey of 1,005 sports spectators from four Sub-Saharan African countries reveals how the interplay between team identification and perceived corruption can encourage or discourage sports attendance under different conditions. Corruption is investigated through the theoretical lenses of the pluralistic nature of morality. Findings indicate that particularistic values linked to moral obligations toward the team collide with the universalistic values that demand fairness in sports. In addition, social norms of corruption moderate the clash between universalistic and particularistic values.
K1 Group-based morality
K1 Perceived sports corruption
K1 Social norms of corruption
K1 Structural approach of corruption
K1 Team identification
K1 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
DO 10.1007/s10551-021-04822-3