A systematic review of motivation of sport event volunteers

ABSTRACT

The aims of this paper are to summarize the current status of the literature on motivation of sport event volunteers and identify research gaps in order to suggest a research agenda for the future research. It develops a better understanding of approach to sport event volunteers’ motivation and how it could be applied to volunteer management in sport events. Through a systematic review method, this study searched and categorized 33 original peer reviewed research papers published in English language academic journals. From the review, this paper updates new database and suggests that a wide range of motivation represented by sport event volunteers may be considered to apply an effective volunteer management for successful sport events.

KEYWORDS:

• Sport events
• volunteers
• motivations
• human resource management

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.