Berit Skirstad is an Associate Professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Management, Oslo, Norway.Alison Doherty is a Professor of Sport Management in the School of Kinesiology, Western University, Canada.Vassil Girginov is a Reader in Sport Management/Development in the Department of Life Sciences, Brunel University, London, England.

• 1. Introduction 2. Using critical realism: a new perspective on control of volunteers in sport clubs 3. ‘Continue or terminate?’ Determinants of long-term volunteering in sports clubs 4. Changing roles: applying continuity theory to understanding the transition from playing to volunteering in community sport 5. Front line insight: an autoethnography of the Vancouver 2010 volunteer experience 6. Development of a hierarchical model of sport volunteers’ organizational commitment 7. A multi-level framework for investigating the engagement of sport volunteers

Berit Skirstad is an Associate Professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Management, Oslo, Norway.Alison Doherty is a Professor of Sport Management in the School of Kinesiology, Western University, Canada.Vassil Girginov is a Reader in Sport Management/Development in the Department of Life Sciences, Brunel University, London, England.

• 1. Introduction 2. Using critical realism: a new perspective on control of volunteers in sport clubs 3. ‘Continue or terminate?’ Determinants of long-term volunteering in sports clubs 4. Changing roles: applying continuity theory to understanding the transition from playing to volunteering in community sport 5. Front line insight: an autoethnography of the Vancouver 2010 volunteer experience 6. Development of a hierarchical model of sport volunteers’ organizational commitment 7. A multi-level framework for investigating the engagement of sport volunteers

Berit Skirstad is an Associate Professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Management, Oslo, Norway.Alison Doherty is a Professor of Sport Management in the School of Kinesiology, Western University, Canada.Vassil Girginov is a Reader in Sport Management/Development in the Department of Life Sciences, Brunel University, London, England.

• 1. Introduction 2. Using critical realism: a new perspective on control of volunteers in sport clubs 3. ‘Continue or terminate?’ Determinants of long-term volunteering in sports clubs 4. Changing roles: applying continuity theory to understanding the transition from playing to volunteering in community sport 5. Front line insight: an autoethnography of the Vancouver 2010 volunteer experience 6. Development of a hierarchical model of sport volunteers’ organizational commitment 7. A multi-level framework for investigating the engagement of sport volunteers