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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 ...
Sport Communication
... (Arizona State University, Brock University, Miami University, University of Delaware, University of Kentucky, University of Maryland, University of Waikato, Xiamen University). Among the methodological approaches employed in these articles are: content analysis of articles, sentiment analysis of Twitter content, narrative thematic analysis, and coding airtime mentions for quantitative content analysis. Although the studies have not clearly explained their theoretical and/or conceptual framework adopted,...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... athlete branding. In the first paper, Cocco et al. (2023) examined the effects of personal branding factors and institutional factors on the potential social media NIL value of men’s and women’s college basketball athletes. Through a linear regression analysis with data collected from the Instagram accounts of the athletes prior to the start of the NIL era in college athletics, the study confirmed positive associations between competitive level of play, strength of the university brand, playing men’s ...
Sport Leadership
... They accomplished this work through 30 semi-structured qualitative interviews involving personnel from two SDP collaboratives under a larger SDP umbrella foundation, the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. Through an inductive coding process for data analysis, Kang and Svensson (2023a) identified four antecedents for shared leadership for SDP. These themes included strategic planning, support from vertical leaders, shared events, and personal characteristics of members. Within the strategic planning ...
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
... classified in seven categories: Labor markets (such as league restrictions on player mobility; player and coach hiring, dismissal and contracts, performance and incentives; transfer markets; salary determinants; discrimination): 3 papers. Performance Analysis (such as home advantage, tournament effects, and behavioral sport economics such as the effect of travel, home field, etc. on performance): 3 papers. Demand for Sport (the determinants of stadium attendance, TV viewing): 11 papers. Sport and ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... development and success of elite sport systems: a scoping review, Sport Management Review, 26:5, 649-676, DOI: 10.1080/14413523.2023.2171276 Erfan Moradi, Sajad Gholampour & Behzad Gholampour (2023) Past, present and future of sport policy: a bibliometric analysis of International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics (2010–2022), International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 15:4, 577-602, DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2228829 In this current issue, five studies from top journals in our discipline ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... resemble approaches found in previous Sport Management Digest Reviews: Table 2: Methodological Approaches Quantitative Approaches Qualitative Approaches Survey Case Study Panel Data (Semi-Structured) Interviews Experimental Study Focus Group Content Analysis (Critical) Commentary Regression Analysis Thematic Analysis Structural Equation Modelling/ Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling Content Analysis Ordinary Least Squares Conceptual Review Textual Analysis (Critical) Discourse ...
State of Sport Management Research in the second half of 2023 (July - December): An Overview
... research pertinent to different aspects of sport management. Owing to technical reasons we were unable to include a review of sport management theoretical developments and ethics research, which will be made available as soon as possible. Bibliometric analysis is an established computer-assisted quantitative review methodology, which identifies core research or authors, as well as their relationship. It provides valuable relational information on the topic, which helps significantly enhance our understanding ...
Sport Communication
... C&S) have been published. The articles explored the intricate relationship between sport, media, and the construction of cultural and national identities across different regions. Sitong Guo’s "Sport Fan Motivation" provided a comparative analysis of basketball fan behavior in the U.S. and China, delving into how regional affiliations shape fandom. Eleanor Crabill, Callie Maddox, and Adam Beissel’s work on the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup bid process explored the coverage of online ...
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 ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... to marketing and sponsorship of Esports will be reviewed in detail. In the first paper, Rietz and Hallmann (2023) conducted a systematic review on Esports to evaluate motivation and intention in online and on-site spectatorship. Based on an in-depth analysis of 25 empirical studies examining Esports spectatorship, the review showed significant antecedents for motivation to watch Esports online and on-site, and the detected motives may differ between motivation to spectate traditional sports or Esports ...
Sport Leadership
... Saxe and colleagues to use in understanding coaches’ voluntary turnover. Through semi-structured interviews, Saxe et al. (2023) carried out an interpretive qualitative design to gather insights from former Division I swim coaches. Through a thematic analysis process of the data, they found that the coaches carried out the TTM’s sequence of: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance. However, a valuable contribution from Saxe and colleagues’ work is the discovery of ...
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
... classified in seven categories: Labor markets (such as league restrictions on player mobility; player and coach hiring, dismissal and contracts, performance and incentives; transfer markets; salary determinants; discrimination): 4 papers. Performance Analysis (such as home advantage, tournament effects, and behavioral sport economics such as the effect of travel, home field, etc. on performance): 11 papers. Demand for Sport (the determinants of stadium attendance, TV viewing): 9 papers. Sport and ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... through outcomes-based strategies, especially as the public sector increasingly recognises the role of sport in achieving governmental outcomes. Set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, Girginov, Chen, Alhakami et al. (2023) conduct a discourse analysis to critically compare and elucidate the complexities inherent in governmental responses within the realm of sports policy of five countries – China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the UK and the USA. The article probes into the strategies employed by ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... Figure 2: Sport Management Digest Review - Comparison of Qualitative Research (in %) Continuing the trends identified in previous reviews, a mixed method design was rarely applied. The methodological approaches employed a variety of data collection and analysis techniques, as shown in Table 2: Quantitative Approaches Qualitative Approaches Survey Case Study Panel Data (Semi-Structured) Interviews Experimental Study Focus Group Content Analysis (Critical) Commentary Regression Analysis Thematic Analysis ...
State of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2023 (January - July)
... management. As promised, the current issue includes a theoretical section, but due to technical reasons we were unable to include the review of sport communication research, which will be made available as soon as possible. The role of bibliometric analysis, as a computer-assisted quantitative review methodology, is to identify core research or authors, as well as their relationship. It provides valuable relational information on the topic, which helps significantly enhance our understanding of ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
..., as visualised in Figure 1: Figure 1: Distribution of Methodological Approaches Again, similar to the previous reviews, a mixed method design very limited in its application. The methodological approaches employed a variety of data collection and analysis techniques, as exemplary shown in Table 2: Table 2: Overview of Most Common Data Collection and Analysis Techniques Quantitative Approaches Qualitative Approaches Survey Case Study Panel Data/ Public Available Data (Semi-Structured) Interviews ...
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 ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... 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 in rugby. Under the heading of governance, one paper investigates the normalisation of unethical behaviours in sports governing bodies while a second ...
Sport Management Communications
... Sunshine Coast, California State University Fullerton, University of Colorado Boulder, and Nanyan Technological University Singapore, Texas Christian University). Out of these five studies, only one used a qualitative method (namely, a qualitative content analysis), the other four studies employed a quantitative method (namely, a quantitative content analysis (two studies), and experiment study (two studies)). Only one of the quantitative studies used theoretical and conceptual frameworks, which are social ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... Australian swim teams, with a specific focus on coaches’ perceptions of such policies. Turconi and colleagues (2022) turned to diversity and inclusion (D&I) practices among New Zealand Rugby, a National Sport Organization (NSO) through a discourse analysis among key personnel within the NSO. Overall, the current swatch of sport leadership articles focused on three different countries, with three of the articles studying U.S. sport, one studying Australian sport, and the last one studying New Zealand ...
Sport Leadership
... Australian swim teams, with a specific focus on coaches’ perceptions of such policies. Turconi and colleagues (2022) turned to diversity and inclusion (D&I) practices among New Zealand Rugby, a National Sport Organization (NSO) through a discourse analysis among key personnel within the NSO. Overall, the current swatch of sport leadership articles focused on three different countries, with three of the articles studying U.S. sport, one studying Australian sport, and the last one studying New Zealand ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... 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 was used to guide the research ...
Sport Economics
... fall into five different categories: Labor markets (such as league restrictions on player mobility; player and coach hiring, dismissal and contracts, performance and incentives; transfer markets; salary determinants; discrimination): 5; Performance Analysis (such as home advantage, tournament effects, and behavioral sport economics such as the effect of travel, home field, etc. on performance): 7; Demand for Sport (the determinants of stadium attendance, TV viewing): 14; Sport and Vice (financial ...
State of Sport Management Research in the second half of 2022 (July-December)
... editor of the theoretical section, the current issue does not include a review of theories used in sport management research. Nonetheless, the next issue of the SMD will provide an overview of theoretical contributions for 2022. The role of bibliometric analysis, as a computer-assisted quantitative review methodology, is to identify core research or authors, as well as their relationship. It provides valuable relational information on the topic, which helps significantly enhance our understanding of ...
Geography of sport management research in 2022
... produced by authors based in 36 countries in 6 continents, and the contexts of the articles covered sport management issues in 53 countries across the 6 continents and pertaining to more than 45 sports (Olympics/Paralympics counted as one sport). In the analysis that follows, we address the following questions: First, which sport domains, specific sports, and geographical contexts constituted the SM research settings? Second, where and in which journals was SM knowledge produced? Addressing these questions ...
Sport Management Communications
... effects of coach communication on student-athlete learning indicators. Social media use in sport: athletic directors and social media use by student-athletes, perceptions of FIFA Men’s World Cup 2022 host nation Qatar in the Twittersphere, and an analysis of digital advertisements. Social psychology and sport communication: motivational differences among different type of viewers, predictors of esports gameplay and spectatorship, fulfilling the basic psychological needs of esports fans, the influence ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... (notably historical, religious, scientific, and cultural) that regulate sexed and gendered bodies. The authors conclude that somatechnics offers a way to understand how material bodies and discourses about them are mutually constitutive and that an analysis of the discourses of sport medical officers can help to uncover the broader societal assumptions that produce some bodies as problematic and others as ‘normal’. LGBT+ participation in sport has been the subject of a considerable literature ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... natural and human systems." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 29 July 2020. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200729114809.htm Annotated bibliography Uhrich, S. (2022). Sport spectator adoption of technological innovations: a behavioral reasoning analysis of fan experience apps. Sport Management Review, 25:2, 275-299, DOI: 10.1080/14413523.2021.1935577 The author aims to identify determinants for sports spectators' adoption of fan experience apps (FEA) and test the model drawn on behavioral reasoning ...
Sport Leadership
... reflexivity to create a conceptual model. The remaining articles used a form of quantitative analyses, such as Breuer et al. (2022). Chiu et al. (2022) also used regression analyses along with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and reliability analysis. The following section provides a discussion on the highlights of each reviewed paper with synthesis to each other or the greater sport leadership research stream where appropriate. Advances in Sport Leadership ...
Sport Economics
... fall into seven different categories: Labor markets (such as league restrictions on player mobility; player and coach hiring, dismissal and contracts, performance and incentives; transfer markets; salary determinants; discrimination): 11, Performance Analysis (such as home advantage, tournament effects, and behavioral sport economics such as the effect of travel, home field, etc. on performance): 7, Demand for Sport (the determinants of stadium attendance, TV viewing): 7, Mega Event Analysis (such ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... theoretically grounded investigations and five of the six articles were supported by empirical data (apart from Kelly, Derrington and Star’s (2022) work where their primary aim was to propose an integrated policy process model). Supplemented by document analysis, qualitative approaches (interviews) were commonly used in studies relevant to sport governance and policy, with one exception [Wicker, Feiler and Breuer (2022) used survey data]. A broad range of theories was incorporated to guide the research ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... this volume, as seen in Figure 1: Figure 1: Distribution of Methodological Appraoches Again, similar to the previous reviews, a mixed method design was limited in its application. The methodological approaches employed a variety of data collection and analysis techniques, as shown in Table 2: Table 2: Data Collection and Analysis Techniques Quantitative Approaches Qualitative Approaches Survey (Semi-Structured) Interviews Structural Equation Modelling Content Analysis Regression Analysis Case Study ...
State of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2022 (January-June): An Overview
... continues to support the earlier conclusion that sport management scholarship has been growing in scope, geography, and appeal. As customary, the present overview of research in the field focuses on three interrelated areas including a bibliometric analysis, theoretical and practical appeal, as measured by the funding received by different studies, and the democratization of knowledge, as exemplified by the number of studies published under the Open Access (OA) regime. These three areas are complemented ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... perceive their own representation and support within the anti-doping system. The purpose of the study examined the ways that clean athletes have been and continue to be personally affected by doping and anti-doping measures. Using a secondary qualitative analysis, the following research question was identified: ‘in what ways are clean athletes personally affected by others’ actual or suspected instances of doping and anti-doping rule violations, and by aspects of the anti-doping system?’ (p. 6)....
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... Approaches While quantitative approaches were predominat there was still a high number of qualittauve approaches and the continued applications of mixed method These methodological approaches approaches employed a variety of data collection and and analysis techniques. These approaches are shown in Table 2. Table 2: Data Collect and Analysis Techniques Quantitative Approaches Qualitative Approaches Survey (Semi-Structured) Interviews Structural Equation Modelling Content Analysis Regression ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... test associations (e.g., institutional theory, self-determination theory, personal investment theory, and green mind theory). Despite the main contexts (i.e., United States, professional sports) and methods (i.e., case study, online survey, regress analysis) in which CSR was investigated were not unique the theoretical approaches of three of the papers were mostly novel within the sport management literature. Entrepreneurship theory was used to examine strategic CSR management decision making and ...
State of Sport Management Research in 2021: An Overview
... areas. Even a cursory view of the published works suggests that sport management scholarship has been growing in scope, geography and appeal. The present overview of research in the field focuses on three interrelated areas including a bibliometric analysis, theoretical and practical appeal, as measured by the funding received by different studies, and the democratization of knowledge, as exemplified by the number of studies published under the Open Access (OA) regime. The second issue of the SMD ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... included in this review. In addition, articles related to several topics (e.g., governance and leadership) are not highlighted here but presented in another section to avoid duplications. The reviewed articles covered timely and novel topics, including the analysis of transgender athletes-related policies, the assessment of a policy intervention adopted by English Football Leagues for enhancing ethnic minority coaches recruitment, the analysis of trust within the boards of sport national governing bodies,...
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management*
... countries: Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Sweden, and the United States. Participants were asked about their social TV usage and scales assessing social capital, sociability, social presence, and fandom were also included on the questionnaire. Quantitative analysis on the survey results revealed little support for the hypothesis that social presence—the feeling of being with others—did not influence identification with the national team or with the Winter Olympics. The authors conclude that a feeling ...
Sport Communication
... used various methodological approaches, including: a quantitative study using a survey method, experimental method, quasi-experimental method, and secondary statistical data; and a qualitative study employing a semi-structured interview, and content analysis of online data (e.g., message board, news reports). The authors used different theories and conceptual frameworks such as – for race and sport studies - Bonilla-Silva’s concept of color-blind racism, critical race theory, and institutional ...
Geography of sport management research
... several sports). It is produced by an authorship whose approach to and interpretation of SM research are underpinned by the socio-cultural milieu in which they work. As such, SM research requires a contextualized understanding of reality (Henry, 2007). An analysis of the geography of SM research offers both an additional lens to appreciate the status of knowledge production in the field and an opportunity to critically reflect on how relevant our research is to other studies within the growing academic ...
Sport Leadership
... appear to be a major threat to the industry. As such, it is therefore important to develop a baseline of understanding for the career experiences and barriers that female leaders in this space have experienced thus far. Utilising inductive thematic analysis from interviews with high-level executives and professional players working in this sector, the researchers uncovered four categories of challenges. Breaking the “glass monitor” incorporated challenges experienced via family disapproval, ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... 2 Journal of Global Sport Management 6 3 9 Journal of Sport Economics 25 25 Journal of Sport Management 2 8 10 20 Sport Management Review 17 8 25 Overall Total 8 80 88 182 Over this period numerous research designs, data collection, and analysis techniques have been employed successfully to provide new insights into areas of research. Table 2 captures the variety of research designs and analytic approaches used. Table 2: Quantitative and Qualitative Designs and Approaches Employed Quantitative ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... perceptions of traditional and social media’s role in reporting corruption. Framed from Heidenhemier’s (2002) perceptions of corruption, three different cases of severity of sports corruption (high, moderate, and low) were presented to participants. The analysis generated a model of perceived role of traditional media and social media and perceived severity of corruption. While this topic is well documented in the broader communications and management literature, this paper is of the few studies in a ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... critical realism, and only one study positions itself within the interpretative paradigm. Policy/governance studies are largely defined by formulaic approaches, with little innovation in research design. Case studies, semi-structured interviews, document analysis, are amongst the research approaches commonly used. There is one study that adopts a mixed-methods approach for investigation. There are five empirical papers that use qualitative approaches, two adopt historical analyses for policy changes and ...
Sport Economics
... economics related research, JSM (Issues 1,2 & 3): 20 papers, hereof 4 covering sport economics related research, SMR (Issue 1): 8 papers, hereof 0 covering sport economics related research. These 40 papers fall into seven different categories: Performance analysis (such as home advantage or reference point behaviour): 8, Economic effects (such as the effects of sport teams, facilities or events): 7, Labour market issues (such as labour market restrictions or salary determinants): 7, Sports demand (such ...
Sport Leadership
... more likely to promote individuals most similar to their own social and physical characteristics. In summary, while minority head coaches were not generally found to be more likely to move Black position coaches into central positions, over time, the analysis indicated that this indeed became the case. However, this trend did not continue throughout their careers, and at a certain point in time, minority head coaches became less likely to laterally move Black coaches to central coaching positions....
Sport Communication
... studies literature, these three scholars from universities in the UK and US examined the media coverage of women footballers in the US. The study used over 100 newspaper and magazine articles published from 1934 to 1979. The authors employed a textual analysis to examine the coverage of women footballers. While American football is dominated by men, according to the authors women have participated in the sport for over 100 years. One of the first formal women’s football leagues began in 1934 and ...