英文摘要 |
The concept of social capital has received many attentions by the scholars of sociology, and has been widely applied to various fields in recent years. The emergence of non-profit organizations, not only reflects the phenomenon of government failure and market failure, but also represents the democratization process of the social structure. In the field of sports, non-profit sport organizations provide people with various sport services, and make up a deficiency of public goods owing to the government failure. Meanwhile, under the circumstances of market failure, the charity of non-profit sport organizations can expand participants' social trust and accumulate social capital for the promotion of social harmony. From the micro view, non-profit sport organizations can accumulate people’s trust. On the other hand, from the macro view, non-profit sport organizations can meet people’s demand of sport and leisure activities, assist the government to promote the national sport, and then implement sports policy. Furthermore, non-profit sport organizations play as a bridge role connects government and other international sport organizations. This article featured a comprehensive non-profit organizations and social capital, further elaborated the connotation of non-profit sport organizations and social capital, provided a different administrative and research view to the field of scholar, government and non-profit sport organizations, and further made three specific recommendations for future research directions. It is hoped to provide sports researchers and other organizational practitioners a different perspective and a better understanding to the value of non-profit sport organizations. |