ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the literature on micro-level accounts (i.e. individual and group) of corruption in sport from an interdisciplinary framework. Individuals and/or group explanations are first examined in deciding to engage in doping and match-fixing. Second, individual and/or group explanations are presented in understanding decisions to engage in corruption in the context of National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I programmes. Individual-level explanations are based on rationalising strategies, goal orientations, rational choice, motivations (social relations and self-interest), personal norms (dishonesty), abuse of power, failure of responsibilities, and rationalising strategies. Group explanations are related to actors’ social networks.
