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Based on the concepts of “trust”, this study seeks to explore the match-fixing phenomena within professional sports systems in the “Chinese Community” which are regarding the development of match-fixing and its theoretical implications and practical perspectives. A case study was to be presented by an examination of the match-fixing of professional baseball in Taiwan. A major attempt of this study has been made to synthesize this evidence by reviewing literature of documentary materials and conducting interviews. The results first indicate that trust plays a role in match-fixing with the bright and dark sides of trust coexisting. Second, actors’ motivations and the exchange of intangible resources (e.g. trust, friendship) are identified. Third, the actors are embedded within a structure so that match-fixing can be understood from a trust perspective which shaped the corrupted contexts to some extent.
