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The Geography of Sport Management Research in 2023
... elite sport. When considering the specific sport(s) linked to the identified sport domain in a given study, football (soccer) continued to hold the top spot in popularity, followed by multi-sport events like the Olympic Games and Pan-American Games, basketball, American football, baseball, e-sport, and others. At the other end of the spectrum, 13 sports were featured in only one or two articles this year. These sports include golf, wrestling, car racing, biathlon, swimming, handball, skiing, badminton,...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... the recent burgeoning academic interest in 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,...
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
... preferences for uncertain outcomes and loss aversion are conflicting. Selected Article Discussion From the JSE, Sport Management USA-based professors Hyun, Jones, Jee, Jordan, Du, and Lee test uncertainty of outcome given game quality in the National Basketball Association (NBA). They find a noteworthy distinction in the relationship between outcome uncertainty and attendance for high-quality games so that the relationship between high quality game and attendance was that was only marginally significant....
The Geography of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2023
... to protect anonymity. For instance, a study situated in professional sport may choose not to reveal the name and sport of the league. As shown in Figure 2, football (soccer) continued to be the most popular sport for SM research settings, followed by basketball, Olympic/Paralympic, American football, baseball, and e-sports. In reflection, Olympic/Paralympic represents an array of sports included in the competition programme of these Games, corresponding to the domain of sport events with Olympic/Paralympic ...
Sport Communication
... 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 news media in ...
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
... suggest that small population cities are more susceptible to leakages, because they have less commerce and thus spending opportunities than larger cities. Using a case study as the analytical tool, a comparison was made between a small city that hosted basketball and kickboxing events, and an adjacent larger city. The results confirmed the hypothesis and identified higher-than-average attendee expenditure in the larger and more developed city which is adjacent to the host city. Overall, the current ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... statements. They have selected seven professional sport players from different sports, including British football/soccer (Lenny Pidgeley), American football (Everson Griffen; Brandon Brooks; Brandon Marshall), cricket (Marcus Trescothick; Sarah Taylor), and basketball (Imani Boyette). The players shared different diagnoses and the authors’ analysis focused on (in)voluntary accounts produced by teams or players themselves during their careers. In more detail, they have analysed the players’ narratives ...
Geography of Sport Management Research in 2022
... sport : this domain covers a variety of professional sport settings. The most common ones are football leagues in Europe, and the major professional sport leagues in North America. The sports covered by the 126 articles in this domain include football, basketball, American football, ice hockey, baseball, rugby, cricket, tennis, MMA, e-sport and so on. A rough coding showed that the most common topics examined were related to fans (18.3%), business/economics (18.3%), followed by attendance/viewership ...
Sport Management Communications
... naturalized athletes, and audience responses to media portrayals of professional athletes and intimate partner violence. - Sport and politics: military-related remembrance rhetoric in UK sport, paralympic broadcasting in sub-Saharan Africa, the National Basketball Association, China, and attribution of responsibility, Twitter users’ reaction to Donald Trump and Megan Rapinoe, and companies’ social media portrayals of their funding of sport for development in indigenous communities in Canada and Australia....
Sport Economics
... demand for sport and the analysis of women’s and other less studies sports (niche sports) make appearances in the sport journal in the second half of 2022. Walker, Allred, and Berri (2022) consider the possibility that dunking (or lack thereof) of the basketball creates a demand problem for the Women’s National Basketball Association, where dunks are rare, relative to the men’s NBA. A repeated media criticism of the WNBA is that their less athletic players play a “below the rim” game that is ...
Geography of sport management research in 2022
... contexts may serve as a lens to identify the locations of SM knowledge production. Our findings were similar to those in the previous SMD issue: First, soccer (18%) was the most popular sport in SM study settings, followed by American football (7%), basketball (7%), and Olympic and Paralympic sports (7%, see Figure 2). Second, 38% of articles were based on study contexts that either featured multiple sports (most often North American professional leagues encompassing American football, basketball,...
Sport Management Communications
... of organization communications. Race and sport media: race in Polish televised football, race representation on the covers of three popular running magazine, media framing of mamba mentality within the contemporary US racial and gender politics, and basketball as a communicative act of resilience. The profession of sport journalism: female journalists in the Swiss press, journalists seen through the eyes of athletes, recruiting reporters’ perceptions of ethical issues, MLB broadcasts and the fact ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... advantage, such as a better draft preference, has been a specific topic for research within the wider event manipulation literature. Gong et al (2021) adopt a big data methodological approach, investigating the effect of team tanking in the National Basketball Association (NBA) on supporter sentiment and, by extension, consumer demand for sports teams that engage in the practice. The results of the study were nuanced, with differences found between perceptions of tanking by away and home teams. Overall,...
Sport Economics
... publications, we continue to see an extension of research across sports and countries. Two JSE articles (one a reply) address pay and performance among UFC fighters (Gift, 2022 and Caves, Tatos, &Urschel, 2022) and another a discrimination in the Chinese basketball league (Berri, Budekin, & Deutscher). Performance studies are now more often associated with behavioral economics. For example, reference points as principal to decision making regarding gains and losses, rather than absolute utility. Sport ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... roles: deciders, users, coordinators, experts, signatories, negotiators, initiators, and networkers. Their findings also revealed that individuals occupying the various roles fulfil different tasks and rely on different power bases. An Ethnography of Basketball as a Communicative Act of Resilience In his research published in the International Journal of Sport Communication, 15(2), Higgins explored resilience as a characteristic developed through basketball and its culture. His main goal was to better ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... conditions and systems that produce and maintain White hegemony in the management and governance of sports. In their document review of equalities policies in four major sports governing bodies (SGB) in the United States (Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Football League and the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee), Gardner et al (2023) found that ambitious-sounding statements about race (and gender) equalities to be found on the SGB websites were not adequately underpinned ...
Sport Communication
... taken by the National Football League, and national anthem protests and indigenous rugby league players in Australia. - Forms of communications in sport: in-game communication (players and referee judgments), small group communication (deaf college basketball players), and nonverbal communication (coach’s nonverbal communication and coach–athlete relationship). - COVID-19 and sport through media: fan interest towards smaller leagues around COVID-19 lockdown through social media, and sportswriters’ ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... where merchandising treated as a dependent variable either as an objective or measurement of team identification, they examine merchandising as an antecedent of fan behavior determinants. Through a quantitative survey with data collected from German basketball fans, the study demonstrate that team merchandise can be a catalyst for team identification and loyalty, and thus can be used as a tool to influence fan behavior. Of the two articles under the sub theme of ‘city marketing through sport’....
Geography of sport management research
... et al., for example (2021). Figure 3. Study context by sport domain Of the specific sports associated with the studies, soccer accounted for the largest number of studies (21%), followed by the Olympics/Paralympics (12%), American football (7%), and basketball (5%). Furthermore, 36% of the studies involved multiple sports or referred to no specific sports (Figure 4). Figure 4. Study context by sport Finally, we plotted the 149 studies on a world map according to their geographical settings (Figure ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... where merchandising treated as a dependent variable either as an objective or measurement of team identification, they examine merchandising as an antecedent of fan behavior determinants. Through a quantitative survey with data collected from German basketball fans, the study demonstrate that team merchandise can be a catalyst for team identification and loyalty, and thus can be used as a tool to influence fan behavior. Of the two articles under the sub theme of ‘city marketing through sport’....
Sport Economics
... generalizable results about the (supposed) impacts of teams and stadiums. Finally, in contrast to the vast majority of studies on professional team sports in the U.S., this study does not only look at Major Leagues in baseball (Major League Baseball, MLB), basketball (National Basketball Association, NBA, and Women National Basketball Association, WNBA), football (National Football League, NFL), hockey (National Hockey League, NHL), and soccer (Major League Soccer, MLS), but also at the corresponding Minor ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... stadium attendance. The findings offer important empirical data to support changing regulation notions regarding the effectiveness of relegation. Hindman, L. C., Walker, N & Agyemang, K. J. A. (2021). Bounded rationality or bounded morality? The National Basketball Association response to COVID-19. European Sport Management Quarterly, 21(3), 333-349. Framed from bounded rationality and bounded morality (Alpaslan & Mitroff, 2004) this study examined the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) COVID 19 ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... mediate the effect of exposure to social media posts when using social media as a communication channel. Gong, H., Watanabe, N. M., Soebbing, B. P., Brown, M. T., & Nagel, M. S. (2021). Do consumer perceptions of tanking impact attendance at National Basketball Association games? A sentiment analysis approach. Journal of Sport Management, 35(3), 254-265. The authors, researchers at Rice University, University of South Carolina, University of Alberta, and the University of South Carolina used sentiment ...
Sport Communication
... DeRozan, and Kevin Love. Communication & Sport, 9(1), 33-54. The above researchers from the University of Alabama examined how the media conveyed and characterized the disclosure of personal experiences with depression and anxiety by two professional basketball players – DeMar DeRozan and Kevin Love – in 2018. The authors investigated news stories about the athletes’ disclosure and their experiences with mental illness, particularly how the media presented the athletes as mental health advocates ...