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The Geography of Sport Management Research in 2023
Introduction This analysis explores the geographical landscape of sport management (SM) research based on empirical articles published in the 10 target journals in 2023. The 508 articles published in 2023 comprised 422 empirical studies and 86 non-empirical pieces such as reviews, conceptual works, commentaries, editorials,...
Sport Communication
Introduction The Sport Communication section of the Sport Management Digest has examined a broad array of communication and sport related topics in its last five issues. These topics have been featured in leading journals including Communication and Sport, International Journal of Sport Communication, Journal ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... pre-performance associations are involved with performance-related scandals. The findings highlighted the importance of understanding the cognitive dissonance that consumers may experience in the cases of athlete scandals, and provided practical implications for managers and agencies of athlete celebrities. Despite the relative long tradition of athlete endorsement practice and a significant body of work about it, there is still limited understanding of endorsement effectiveness, contributing factors as well ...
Sport Leadership
Introduction This edition of Sport Management Digest’s Sport Leadership section leads off with a review of the leadership research published in 2023. Since the previous edition, one work by Kang and Svensson (2023a) was published that related to sport leadership in the Journal of Sport ...
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
... of Sports Economists (NAASE) and the International Journal of Sport Finance (IJSF), which is the official journal of the European Sport Economics Association (ESEA). Furthermore, sport economics research is regularly published in either of four sport management journals, i.e., the European Sport Management Quarterly (ESMQ), the Journal of Sport Management (JSM), the Sport Management Review (SMR) and the Journal of Global Sport Management (JGSM). The following list provides a summary of overall forty-eight ...
Sport Governance and Policy
Introduction The past few months have witnessed the publication of several interesting and useful papers on the topic of sport policy and governance. Those familiar with the selection criteria of the Sport Management Digester will know that, preferably, empirical research papers that significantly enhance our understanding of policy and governance are chosen. This is rather than papers that merely apply a particular policy or governance theoretical concept/framework,...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... summary of the methodological approaches used in the respective journals. Table 1: Summary of Methodological Approaches Journals Mixed Qualitative Quantitative Total Communication & Sport - 25 (incl. two intros and one editorial) 4 29 European Sport Management Quarterly 2 19 (incl. one intro) 11 32 International Journal of Sport Finance - 2 (incl. one Intro and one essay) 8 10 International Journal of Sport Marketing and Sponsorship 1 7 28 36 International Journal of Sport Communication 1 12 (incl....
State of Sport Management Research in the second half of 2023 (July - December): An Overview
The current issue of the Sport Management Digest (SMD) provides a bibliometric review of the research published in the 10-sport management journals in the second half of 2023 – from July to December. The six thematic sections that follow cover in sufficient detail research pertinent ...
Sport Communication
The sport management research community has actively contributed to the field of sport communication between March 2023 and August 2023, publishing upwards of 40 articles across a variety of journals. This period, starting with the fourth issue of Sport Management ...
The Geography of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2023
Introduction The analysis on the geography of sport management (SM) research mainly concerns the settings in which SM research takes place and the geographical distribution of SM knowledge production. To allow such an analysis, we only include empirical studies grounded in specific contexts. There were ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... clutch states are important on mobile devices. In the third article, Lefebvre et al. (2023) conducted a thematic analysis to analyse how Esports divisions of professional clubs can be deployed, with data collected through semi-structured interviews with managers responsible for Esports activities with 28 professional clubs from 24 countries. They identified the specific dynamic capabilities DCs, internal (i.e. microfoundations) and external factors which enable the deployment of Esports strategies. They ...
Sport Leadership
Introduction This edition of Sport Management Digest’s Sport Leadership section includes a total of four articles. There is one article each from Sport Management Review (SMR), Journal of Sport Management (JSM), Journal of Global Sport Management (JGSM), and European Sport Management ...
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
... of Sports Economists (NAASE) and the International Journal of Sport Finance (IJSF), which is the official journal of the European Sport Economics Association (ESEA). Furthermore, sport economics research is regularly published in either of four sport management journals, i.e., the European Sport Management Quarterly (ESMQ), the Journal of Sport Management (JSM), the Sport Management Review (SMR) and the Journal of Global Sport Management (JGSM). The following list provides a summary of overall forty-eight ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... multi-dimensional understanding of the complexities inherent in sport governance and policy. These works delve into an eclectic range of topics, from the imperatives of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) within sport organisations to the exigencies of crisis management amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and from the architecture of governance to the dynamism of policy transitions and enactments. By focusing on papers that are particularly relevant to policy and governance, this review intends to offer a streamlined ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... were published between March and August 2023, and Table 1 summarises the methodological approaches used in the respective journals: Journals Mixed Qualitative Quantitative Total Communication & Sport 1 21 (incl. three editorials) 8 30 European Sport Management Quarterly 3 25 (incl. one editorial) 34 62 International Journal of Sport Finance - - 8 8 International Journal of Sport Marketing and Sponsorship 1 6 (incl. one editorial) 13 20 International Journal of Sport Communication - 38 (incl. one ...
State of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2023 (January - July)
This introductory article of the Sport Management Digest (SMD) provides a bibliometric review of the research published in the 10-sport management journals in the first half of 2023 – from January to July. The eight thematic sections that follow cover in sufficient detail research pertinent ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
Introduction This section presents a summary of the ten sport journals from the previous three volumes of Sport Management Digest. The papers were published between July 2022 and February 2023. Table 1 summarises the methodological approaches used in the respective journals: Table 1: Summary of Methodological Approaches Journals Mixed Qualitative Quantitative Total ...
Geography of Sport Management Research in 2022
Introduction Building on the analysis of the 180 empirical articles published in the first half of 2022 in the 10 targeted journals, this essay examines the geography of empirical sport management (SM) research throughout 2022 or a total of 342 [1] . By using the same coding protocol for the analyses reported in the previous two Sport Management Digest issues, we first examine the distribution of the key components that form SM research ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... governing bodies while a second piece examines the complexity of violence against women in sport. In this review, two articles are drawn from each of Communication and Sport, the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, the Journal of Sport Management, and Sport Management Review. One article was published in the Journal of Global Sport Management. Scholars included in the review are working in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Equalities Sport ...
Sport Management Communications
Introduction The sport management research community has published over 45 sport communication (and related) articles in the field’s various journals since the third issue of SMD (October 2022 to February 2023). Over this period, a few sport communication research works have ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
Introduction This edition of Sport Management Digest’s Sport Leadership section encompasses a total of five articles. The current edition includes two studies from the Journal of Sport Management (JSM), two from Sport Management Review (SMR), one from International Journal of Sport Policy ...
Sport Leadership
Introduction This edition of Sport Management Digest’s Sport Leadership section encompasses a total of five articles. The current edition includes two studies from the Journal of Sport Management (JSM), two from Sport Management Review (SMR), one from International Journal of Sport Policy ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... scholars from Europe and North America, are highlighted here. The study topics include: LGBT+ policies, policy impact on the development of sport and physical activity participation, the influence of macro-environment on the field of sport policy and management, sport policy analysis framework, and sport policy initiatives evaluations. This collection of articles featured one systematic review, two policy documents reviews, one commendatory piece, and two empirical studies. A wide range of theories ...
Sport Economics
... of Sports Economists (NAASE) and the International Journal of Sport Finance (IJSF), which is the official journal of the European Sport Economics Association (ESEA). Furthermore, sport economics research is regularly published in either of four sport management journals, i.e., the European Sport Management Quarterly (ESMQ), the Journal of Sport Management (JSM), the Sport Management Review (SMR) and the Journal of Global Sport Management (JGSM). The following list provides a summary of overall 39 ...
State of Sport Management Research in the second half of 2022 (July-December)
This introductory article of the Sport Management Digest (SMD) provides a bibliometric review of the research published in the 10-sport management journals in the second half of 2022 – from July to December. The eight thematic sections that follow cover in sufficient detail research pertinent ...
Geography of sport management research in 2022
Introduction By using a coding protocol identical to that used in a previous Sport Management Digest (SMD) issue (see Xing, 2022), we coded 180 empirical articles to capture the geography of sport management (SM) research published in the first 6 months of 2022 by the 10 targeted journals 1 . These articles were produced by authors ...
Sport Management Communications
Introduction The sport management research community has published over 50 sport communication (and related) articles in the field’s various journals since the second issue of SMD (March 2022 to Sep 2022). Over this period, a few sport communication research works have been ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
Introduction In my first piece as the new editor of the Sport Management Ethics and Integrity section, I would firstly like to thank my predecessor, Lisa Kihl, for setting such a high standard in previous editions. Nine papers are included in this review. Six papers have been organised under a heading of equalities,...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... background of different target satellite markets, and the results seem to raise more questions than answers for future investigation into mechanism underlying satellite fan behavior. In the last paper, Berndt (2022) explored the brand persona of a football manager by using Arsene Wenger as a case. Media reports and images that centered on Arsene Wenger’s words covering a three-year period were collected from leading online newspapers and analyzed in NVivo, using both a priori and emergent codes. As a ...
Sport Leadership
Introduction This edition of the Sport Management Digest’s Sport Leadership section encompasses a total of seven articles. The current edition includes four studies from the Journal of Sport Management (JSM), one from Sport Management Review (SMR), one from European Sport Management Quarterly ...
Sport Economics
... Sports Economists (NAASE) and the International Journal of Sport Finance (IJSF), which is the official journal of the European Sport Economics Association (ESEA). Furthermore, sport economics research is regularly published in either of the three sport management journals, i.e., the European Sport Management Quarterly (ESMQ), the Journal of Sport Management (JSM), the Sport Management Review (SMR) and the Journal of Global Sport Management (JGSM). The following list provides a summary of overall 42 ...
Sport Governance and Policy
Introduction Sport policy and governance-related articles published in the ten major journals relevant to the discipline in the first six months of 2022 were reviewed for this issue of the Sport Management Digest. For the section on Sport Governance and Policy, this review features six articles produced by a group of scholars from Europe, Asia, and Australia (the full annotated bibliography can be found at the end of this review). The reviewed ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
1. Introduction This section provides a summary of the ten sport journals consistent with the previous two volumes of Sport Management Digest. The papers were published between January and June 2022. Table 1 summarises the methodological approaches used in the respective journals: Table 1: Summary of Methodological Approaches Journals Mixed Qualitative Quantitative Total Communication ...
State of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2022 (January-June): An Overview
The Sport Management Digest (SMD) is a new type of publication design to provide a high-level synthesis of research in the field published in 10 established sport management journals. It is published biannually in March and September. Therefore, the SMD should ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... racism in sport. A final article reviews the current state of academic knowledge in respect to online hate. In this review, two articles are drawn from each of Communication and Sport, the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, and Sport Management Review. Scholars included in the review are working in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Anti-doping Doping remains a critical problem for sports ethics and integrity and anti-doping research and scholarship has ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
1. Introduction This section provides a summary the 10 journals consistent with the first volume of sport management digest. The manuscripts were published were published between July and 2021 and January 2022. The Table 1 summarises the methodological approaches used in the ten journals. Table 1: Summary of Methodological Approaches Journals Mixed Qualitative ...
State of Sport Management Research in 2021: An Overview
The aim of this introductory article of the Sport Management Digest (SMD) is to provide an overview of the research published in the ten specialised journals during 2021. Individual sections of the SMD cover in sufficient detail the main topics and key findings of different subject areas. Even a cursory ...
Sport Leadership
1. Introduction This edition of the Sport Leadership section for Sport Management Digest covers a total of eight articles. The collection includes two studies each from European Sport Management Quarterly (ESMQ), the Journal of Sport Management (JSM), and Sport Management Review (SMR), and one study from both the International ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
1. Introduction Seven papers were included in this review that were published in Communication & Sport, International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, Journal of Sport Management, and Journal of Global Sport Management. Three topics were examined under the umbrella topic of Ethics and Sport Integrity including corporate social responsibility (CSR), corruption, and racism. Fourteen different authors (one authored three ...
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management*
1. Introduction In the first review of this section of the Digest, Dr. Girginov provided a thorough review of theoretical developments in the field of sport management. Leaving aside the debate of whether sport management requires its own theory(ies), what we have seen develop in this still nascent field is a diverse area of theoretical applications with sociological, psychological, and political science ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... of themes and topics can be found in Table 1. Written by 44 authors from 32 institutions in 13 countries, these articles come from five journals with 7 from IJSMS, 3 from SMR, 2 each from JSM and ESMQ, and one from JGSM. In this section of the Sport Management Digest, an overview of these publications will be offered with nine of them being reviewed in more details. Table 1, Selected Publication in Sport Marketing and Sponsorship Themes Topics Authors No Sport sponsorship Sponsorship effects and ...
Geography of sport management research
Introduction Sport management (SM) research does not occur in vacuum but in the context of a specific sport domain (e.g., professional sport, community sport, collegiate athletics), a specific country (or several countries), and, often, a specific sport (or several sports)....
Sport Governance and Policy
1. Introduction Sport policy and governance-related articles published in the nine major journals relevant to the discipline in the second half of 2021 were reviewed for this second issue of the Sport Management Digest. The Sport Governance and Policy section features five articles produced by a group of scholars from North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. These articles are selected for the second issue because of their relatively strong theoretical ...
Sport Communication
1. Introduction The sport management research community has published over 34 sport communication (and related) articles in the field’s various journals since the first issue of SMD. During this period, sport communication research has been published in journals such as the ...
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management
Exactly hundred and ten years ago, Frederick Winslow Taylor published his influential book, The Principles of Scientific Management (New York: Harper, 1911), which has legitimised management as a scientific discipline. Taylor’s main concern was the notion of efficiency as applied to organisations. But Taylor’s writing was profoundly influenced by the science of physics ...
Sport Leadership
1. Introduction This first edition of the Sport Leadership section for Sport Management Digest will cover a total of eight studies published in the first half of 2021 in four different journals. This list includes three articles from Sport Management Review (SMR), two from the Journal of Sport Management (JSM), two from the Journal ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... approaches used across each journal for this time period. Table 1: Summary of the Methodological Approaches Journals Mixed Qualitative Quantitative Total Communication & Sport 1 16 3 20 Communication & Sport - Invited Article 1 2 3 European Sport Management Quarterly 2 6 7 15 International Journal of Sport Finance 8 8 International Journal of Sport Marketing and Sponsorship 1 9 12 22 International Journal of Sport Communication 4 8 12 International Journal of Sport Communication (1 Critical ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... reference points to make moral justifications (i.e., applying principles, rules, virtues to resolve specific sport moral problems) (Frankena, 1973; Nash, 2002). I will also use the terms ethics and morality interchangeably as do many in the field of sport management and in business ethics because epistemologically the terms have similar root meanings (Nash, 2002). “Sport integrity involves sport actors, professional behaviors, and organizational processes and procedures where moral values and norms serve ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... of themes and topics can be found in Table 1. Written by 44 authors from 32 institutions in 13 countries, these articles come from five journals with 7 from IJSMS, 3 from SMR, 2 each from JSM and ESMQ, and one from JGSM. In this section of the Sport Management Digest, an overview of these publications will be offered with nine of them being reviewed in more details. Table 1, Selected Publication in Sport Marketing and Sponsorship Themes Topics Authors No Sport sponsorship Sponsorship effects and ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... inter-organisational theory, institutional theory, inequality regimes, urban governance, and the multiple streams framework. Collectively, this range of articles has helped broaden our understanding of policy and governance as contemporary paradigms for sport management research. Relevant to the topic of sport policy, Attali and Bazoge’s (2021) historical analysis of French public policies relevant to girls’ access to sport published since 1945 is a useful piece, demonstrating that policy has evolved to ...