The present and future understanding of match-fixing: Exploring the building blocks of match-fixing theory

This concluding chapter discusses how the contributions of this edited volume help to better understand match-fixing in sport. Building on the four core elements or building blocks of theory development (Whetten, 1989), this chapter outlines how this edited volume supports novel insights into the what?, how?, why?, and who, where, and when? questions related to match-fixing. Taken together, these contributions provide a polyphony of viewpoints on match-fixing. Doing so, we have pushed the agenda for diverse perspectives from differing contexts, backgrounds, and theoretical standings to be examined in the future, while offering suggestions of areas that could be explored in future academic work on match-fixing.