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Sport Governance and Policy
... sectors interact and influence each other. The authors discuss Sport England's attempts to bring community sport activities in line with public health goals, showing how these efforts are shaped by wider policy changes and a growing emphasis on making decisions based on evidence. This issue becomes even more pressing in times of financial cutbacks, which have led to changes in how community sport projects are funded and prioritised. The study's main discoveries point out the difficult and often strained ...
State of Sport Management Research in the second half of 2023 (July - December): An Overview
... entry point for understanding the intellectual structure of the discipline, the authors and centres responsible for producing the studies as well as the topical issues discussed. It is hoped that it will help in stimulating debates and in informing decisions about research projects and teaching strategies. Enjoy your exploration of the Sport Management Digest! References Lis, A. (2020). Sport management: Bibliometric study of key sources titles in the research field. Journal of Physical Education ...
Sport Leadership
... TTM had been utilized in the health behavior and management disciplines for a variety of applications (Grant, 2010; Pennington, 2022), its primary use in sport has revolved around understanding fan attendance (Musgrave et al., 2021) and an athlete’s decision and process to retire from a sport (Park et al., 2012). Since the TTM had been successfully applied in these previous contexts and given its framework to better understand an individual’s processes and decision-making thinking behind a significant ...
State of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2023 (January - July)
... entry point for understanding the intellectual structure of the discipline, the individuals and centres responsible for producing the studies as well as the topical issues discussed. It is hoped that it will help in stimulating debates and in informing decisions about research projects and teaching strategies. Happy reading of the Sport Management Digest! References Lis, A. (2020). Sport management: Bibliometric study of key sources titles in the research field. Journal of Physical Education and Sport,...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... rejected football-based heritage nominations in the Brazilian National Congress (BNC) since 2005. According to the authors, heritage nominations have been proposed at the Legislative branch by politicians which is often considered an administrative decision made by heritage experts at Heritage Committees following technical criteria. In this context, this research presented nine proposed legal recognitions of football and the Brazilian National Team as part of the nation’s cultural heritage. The ...
Geography of Sport Management Research in 2022
... consumption setting or a concrete sport domain (e.g., professional sport, sport events, collegiate athletics, and community sport/SFD). Most of the 55 articles in this domain examined the effect of a set of variables on consumer experience, consumer decision, consumer expenditure, consumer evaluation of sport brand/product/service, and consumers attitude toward focal issues in sport. Collegiate athletics : included in this domain are also articles set in high school athletics. The 23 articles mainly ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... seeming out of step with mainstream liberal opinion. Mueller’s work helps to problematise dominant narratives in respect of how such protests are received and contributes greatly to a more nuanced understanding of the continuing impact of Kaepernick’s decision to take the knee during the playing of the national anthem. LGBT+ inclusion in sport Transgender inclusion in sport has become an increasingly important issue as more individuals who identify as transgender seek to participate in organised ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... (SMR), one from International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. Each of the articles in this section include either a direct focus on leaders and leadership in sport or examine decision-makers leading sport organizations through strategic management decisions. The current collection of articles spans different approaches to examining leadership as well as positioning certain groups as leaders or through a leadership lens to further understand sport and societal phenomena. For example, Read and Lock ...
Sport Leadership
... (SMR), one from International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. Each of the articles in this section include either a direct focus on leaders and leadership in sport or examine decision-makers leading sport organizations through strategic management decisions. The current collection of articles spans different approaches to examining leadership as well as positioning certain groups as leaders or through a leadership lens to further understand sport and societal phenomena. For example, Read and Lock ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... past four decades and how the political, cultural, and social fragmentation have influenced the field of sport policy and management. The author calls for policy and management to adapt to the new realities and recommends that managers continue to make decisions based on evidence and based on publicly accepted standards of truth. Jedlicka, S., Harris, S., & Houlihan, B., (2022). Policy Analysis in Sport Management Revisited: A Critique and Discussion, Journal of Sport Management, 36, 521-533. https://doi....
Sport Economics
... of demand for the same sport. Practically, these can inform the strategic decision-making of broadcasters, promoters, advertisers and potential new broadcasting entrants. Clay Collins and Brad R. Humphreys. (2022). Contest Outcome Uncertainty and Fan Decisions: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Sports Economics 23 (6) 789–807 Abstract : Outcome uncertainty represents a central, defining area of sports economic research. Contest outcome uncertainty (COU), the idea that fan expectations about game outcomes ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... long-term consequences for social irresponsibility? Adidas’ rent incident during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. European Sport Management Quarterly, 22:1, 11-34, DOI: 10.1080/16184742.2021.1926526 This paper aims to investigate the impact of Adidas’ decision to take advantage of German government regulations by withholding rent payments on its brand metrics in times of Covid-19. Data were collected through the daily BrandIndex survey on sentiment, reputation, purchase intent, and behavior for 1,096 ...
Sport Economics
... 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 offers data-rich opportunities to test these theories. In many instances, labor market research and studies of performance analysis overlap as performance largely determines ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... security and underpins a society that is not characterised by differences in wealth and living standards (Herscovitch, 2013). In relation to the national anthem protests among Indigenous rugby players, the article focussed on two key moments: (1) the decision by the Australian National Rugby League (NRL) to include an alternative anthem alongside the national anthem during the Indigenous Round of matches in 2017 and (2) high-profile silent protests by Indigenous players during the playing of the national ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... is summarised and attention given the methodological approach employed and the findings gleaned from the approach taken. 2. Selected Method Papers European Sport Management Quarterly. Antecedents and consequences of perceived fan participation in the decision making of professional European football clubs, by Sebastian Uhrich. In his paper “Antecedents and consequences of perceived fan participation in the decision making of professional European football clubs” (2021), Sebastian Uhrich presents ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... determinants Bjerke & Elvekrok (2021) * Pontes, Pontes, Jin and Mahar (2021) * Kwak and Pradhan (2021) * Lee and Suh (2021) * Lu , Zhu & Wei,2021 Santos, Moreno, Gasco & Lizama (2021) 6 Ambush marketing Geurin & Erin L. McNary (2021) * 1 Sponsorship decision making Schönberner, Woratschek and Ellert (2021) * 1 Sport marketing Consumer behaviour Jang, Wu and Wen (2021) * Stroebel, Woratschek & Durchholz (2021) * Happ, Choll-Grissemann, Peters & Schnitzer (2021) Behnam, Pyun, Doyle &Delshab (2021) ...
Sport Leadership
... behaviours in sport through the lens of moral disengagement. As the authors explain, moral disengagement refers to a set of cognitive mechanisms that disengage one’s moral self-regulation processes, and therefore help to explain why people make unethical decisions (without the appearance of feeling guilty or censuring themselves). To better understand integrity in the sporting environment the authors apply Bandura’s (1999, 2016) framework of moral disengagement that consists of the following categories: ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... 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 implementation. A model of social entrepreneurship drivers in strategic CSR was generated to theoretically explain and practically explain how sport organizations can achieve shared value through aligning social and economic responsibilities....
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... (Nash, 2002). “Sport integrity involves sport actors, professional behaviors, and organizational processes and procedures where moral values and norms serve as ideals and standards that influence sport governing body [sic] structures, systems, and decision making to enhance its integrity performance (Kihl, in press). Hence, sport integrity involves both corrupt and non-corrupt behaviors by sport actors as well as corrupt and unethical sport organizational governance, decision making and organizational ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... determinants Bjerke & Elvekrok (2021) * Pontes, Pontes, Jin and Mahar (2021) * Kwak and Pradhan (2021) * Lee and Suh (2021) * Lu , Zhu & Wei,2021 Santos, Moreno, Gasco & Lizama (2021) 6 Ambush marketing Geurin & Erin L. McNary (2021) * 1 Sponsorship decision making Schönberner, Woratschek and Ellert (2021) * 1 Sport marketing Consumer behaviour Jang, Wu and Wen (2021) * Stroebel, Woratschek & Durchholz (2021) * Happ, Choll-Grissemann, Peters & Schnitzer (2021) Behnam, Pyun, Doyle &Delshab (2021) ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... Equation Modelling Discourse Analysis Survey Narrative Panel Modelling Conceptual Framing From these journals, three papers have been selected for a more detailed review. The papers selected were chosen as they used social media as a research platform. The decision to focus on social media papers was made as never before has such a rich vein of potential data been available to sport management researchers. Social media presents researchers with a tool to provide deeper insights into the influence and impact ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... analysis of French public policies relevant to girls’ access to sport published since 1945 is a useful piece, demonstrating that policy has evolved to adapt to social changes and economic needs, and is influenced by the change of political ideology in decision making. Thus, this attention to the policy making process and the awareness of some potential broader influential factors that might have an impact on the issues examined are valuable points to highlight. For example, Friedman and Beissel (2020) ...
Sport Leadership
... that this appears in part to be a result of the relatively stagnant average percentage of minority coaches on NFL staffs since 2003. A notable conclusion by the authors was that racial discrimination for head coach hirings may actually be related to decisions made by head coaches themselves, rather than being solely at the hands of owners and general managers who directly hire head coaches. That is, because central coaching roles represent the primary pool of candidates from which higher-level leadership ...