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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 ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
Introduction At least 48 articles can be identified across the pre-selected journals for the sport marketing and sponsorship section (some articles are included here to avoid duplication of presentation) for the second half of 2023. These publications come from 5 different journals, and IJSMS remains the journal with the most publications (19) ...
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 ...
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
Introduction All papers considered in this section of the digest come from the issues dated in the second half of 2023 and were published in the pre-selected journals. Of these journals, two are exclusively dedicated to sport economics related research, the Journal of Sports Economics (JSE), which is the official Journal of the North American Association of Sports Economists (NAASE) and the International Journal of Sport Finance (IJSF), which is the official journal ...
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 ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
Introduction This paper reviewed the ten most popular sport journals in regard to their research design. The publications under review were published between September 2023 and February 2024. Table 1 provides a summary of the methodological approaches used in the respective journals. Table 1: Summary of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
Introduction At least 39 articles can be identified across the pre-selected journals for the sport marketing and sponsorship section (some articles are included here to avoid duplication of presentation) for the first half of 2023. These publications come from 5 different journals, and IJSMS is the journal with the most publications (17) followed ...
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
Introduction All papers considered in this section of the digest come from the issues dated in the first half of 2023 and were published in the pre-selected journals. Of these journals, two are exclusively dedicated to sport economics related research, the Journal of Sports Economics (JSE), which is the official Journal of the North American Association of Sports Economists (NAASE) and the International Journal of Sport Finance (IJSF), which is the official journal ...
Sport Governance and Policy
Introduction Sport governance and policy persist as focal points of scholarly inquiry, owing to their intricate interplay and their capacity to exert a significant societal imprint. The current section provides a nuanced synthesis of seven seminal articles, each contributing ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
Introduction This paper reviewed the ten most popular sport journals concerning their research design. The publications under review were published between March and August 2023, and Table 1 summarises the methodological approaches used in the respective journals: Journals Mixed Qualitative Quantitative ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... organised under a heading of equalities. Two papers examine the ongoing problematic of racial discrimination. One article studies LGBT+ inclusion policies in Australian cricket and two further papers investigate the inclusion of transgender athletes in sport in the context of US state legislative interventions. Two papers focus on New Zealand sport equalities policy. The first article provides a historical analysis of disability sport policy in New Zealand while the second examines diversity and inclusion ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sport Governance and Policy
Introduction This section offers a review of a selection of articles relevant to the topics of sport policy and sport governance published in the major sports journals in the second half of 2022. A total of six articles (all sport policy-focused), produced by scholars from Europe and North America, are highlighted here. The study topics include: ...
Sport Economics
Introduction All papers considered in this section of the digest come from published issues dated July 2022 - December 2022 in the ten pre-selected journals. Of these ten journals, two are exclusively dedicated to sport economics related research, the Journal of Sports Economics (JSE), which is the official Journal of the North American Association of Sports Economists (NAASE) and the International Journal of Sport Finance (IJSF), which is the official journal ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
At least 41 articles on sport marketing and sponsorship have been published by the relevant journals in the first half of 2022, representing a significant growth since last edition. In this section of sport marketing and sponsorship, a summary of these articles regarding their ...
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 ...
Sport Economics
Introduction All papers considered in this section of the digest come from published issues in the first six months of 2022 from the ten pre-selected journals. Of these ten journals, two are exclusively dedicated to sport economics related research, the Journal of Sports Economics (JSE), which is the official Journal of the North American Association of Sports Economists (NAASE) and the International Journal of Sport Finance (IJSF), which is the official journal ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
Introduction Six papers are included in this review. Two papers examine the ongoing issue of anti-doping in sport. One article discusses emerging proposals to establish Sports Integrity Agencies. Under the theme of equalities, one paper looks at homophobia in sport and a second paper examines racism in sport. A final article reviews the current state of academic ...
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 ...
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 ...
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), ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
In total 15 articles are identified for the section of sport marketing and sponsorship with eight of them devoted to the theme of sport sponsorship, and the rest to other sport marketing topics. A breakdown of themes and topics can be found in Table 1. Written by 44 authors from 32 institutions in 13 countries,...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Sport Governance and Policy
1. Introduction Across the ten journals reviewed, the number of selected articles relevant to the topic of sport governance and policy is relatively high, in comparison with other topic sections in the Digest. There are in total nine articles showcased here that are produced by twenty scholars from North America, Europe, Asia, Arica, and Australia. The nine ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
1. Introduction With this first review, I believe it is important to clarify the meaning of the term’s ethics and sport integrity and thus outline the scope of the category. In the broader literature, the meaning and distinction of the term’s ethics, morality, and integrity is well discussed. I do not intend to engage in such a debate in this review. The term ethics ...
Sport Communication
1. Introduction The sport management research community has published over 55 sport communication (and related) articles in the field’s various journals over the past seven months of 2021. During this period, a few sport communication research works have been published ...
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management
... motion with advances in heat interactions allowed scientist to understand how machines could function with maximum efficiency, and being an engineer, Taylor borrowed this idea and applied it to industrial organisations. Debates whether management, and sport management in particular, is a science continue to fill the pages of academic and popular journals. What is not disputed though is the fact that management is an integral scientific discipline. More recently, Mintzberg (2011) defined management ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
In total 15 articles are identified for the section of sport marketing and sponsorship with eight of them devoted to the theme of sport sponsorship, and the rest to other sport marketing topics. A breakdown of themes and topics can be found in Table 1. Written by 44 authors from 32 institutions in 13 countries,...
Sport Economics
1. Introduction All papers considered in this section of the digest come from published issues of overall ten pre-selected journals. Out of these ten journals, two are exclusively dedicated to sport economics related research, i.e., the Journal of Sports Economics (JSE), which is the official Journal of the North American Association of Sports Economists (NAASE) and the International Journal of Sport Finance (IJSF), which is the official journal ...