ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the intersection of sport, environmental sustainability (ES), and capacity. There are two main frameworks to understand organizational capacity. First, Venture Philanthropy Partners produced a report in order to better understand capacity and capacity building in the field. A second capacity framework emerged from research on the Canadian nonprofit sector in the early 2000s. In order to truly make inroads, sport leaders must move beyond mechanisms of productivity towards "models of organizing". The chapter deals with suggestions about how capacity can better inform our understanding of how and why ES change may occur in sport organizations. It offers Recommendations for future research to advance conceptual and empirical work. The chapter summarizes Future research could extend upon the very cursory capacity–sport ES research area and examines which capacity elements are most evident within ES initiatives across all segments of the sport industry.
