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Odds-wise view: Whose ideas prevail in the global integrity campaigns against match-fixing?
- Source :
- International Review for the Sociology of Sport; Nov2022, Vol. 57 Issue 7, p1001-1020, 20p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- The global expansion of sports betting has resulted in the formation of (inter)national governing regimes aimed at sustaining revenue and regulating attendant issues, including match-fixing. This article explores the workings of these regimes vis-à-vis the management of match-fixing issues in sport. More particularly, this article focuses on betting monitoring programmes as countermeasures against match-fixing and conceptualises these as social instruments that ultimately define issues and influence the wider integrity agenda of anti-match-fixing campaigns. Analysing documentary, observation and interview data from two disparate monitoring programmes, the results show that betting monitoring is a technical extension of corporate risk management, invariably reflecting the business interests of the betting industry. Therefore, the operating logic of betting monitoring defines match-fixing as an act of sabotaging the competitive edge of betting companies. Moreover, this interest-laden paradigm reigns within the broader policy agenda of sport integrity by equating the betting industry's interest with that of sport. From this, the article suggests that betting monitoring plays a part in the legitimation of commercial gambling by reframing the issue of match-fixing as a common enemy that gambling and sport join forces to combat, not a risk that gambling brings to sport. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- INTEGRITY
SPORTS betting
GAMBLING
INDUSTRIAL management
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10126902
- Volume :
- 57
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Review for the Sociology of Sport
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 159230860
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/10126902211045681