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The Geography of Sport Management Research in 2023
... Lastly, studies conducted in cross-continental or international settings tended to focus on the domains of professional sport, sport events, and 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 ...
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
... demand for sport Demand for sport is a relatively broad area, but analysis of demand is fundamental to the economics of sports. At one time analysis of demand focused almost exclusively on spectator attendance at major team sport events and contests like football in Europe and Baseball in North America (see Borland and MacDonald, 2003). However, in recent years analysis of demand has expanded to consider the demand for viewing other sports and consumption of sport via media e. g. Buraimo and Simmons (2015)....
Sport Governance and Policy
... and one from the US. These studies typically employed document analysis approaches, with or without the supplementation of qualitative interview data. They cover the following topics: an analysis of Canadian sport policy over the past decade, Chinese football policy reform, an analysis of community sport and health policy and programmes in the UK, policy regarding transgender athletes in the US, and a conceptual paper on the understanding of good governance in sport. Key theoretical frameworks/concepts ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... cooperation already prevails. Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League in the Context of COVID-19 (Dandah & Chiweshe, 2023) In this study, the authors examined the emerging impact of COVID-19 on soccer in the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League (ZPSL). It highlighted how football leagues with historical challenges of funding and a lack of disaster preparedness have been impacted by the pandemic. The data collection was based on desk research, focusing mainly on newspaper articles and online stories. In total, 40 newspaper ...
Sport Communication
... affiliations intersect with sports fandom and perceptions of social justice movements. Jonas Biel, Tobias Finger, Vincent Reinke, Jennifer Amann, Sport Management Digest Sport Communication Issue 5_GA Arne Niemann, and Marc Jungblut delved into German football media, exploring the media’s role in constructing a European identity through sports. Bo Li, Olan K.M. Scott, Jerred Junqi Wang, and Liang Xiao offered insights into the generational differences in media consumption during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics ...
The Geography of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2023
... Figure 2). In a few instances, the information of the sport was intentionally omitted in order 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 ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... DCs, internal (i.e. microfoundations) and external factors which enable the deployment of Esports strategies. They also describe the outcomes for each step of the deployment process, which leads to the building of a preliminary model of professional football clubs’ involvement in Esports. The final two articles studied Esports under sponsorship context. In their article published in IJSMS, Hwang et al.(2023) aim to examine the impacts of brand congruity of in-game brand placement on Esports consumers’ ...
Sport Leadership
... life situations as well as seek out ways to improve coaching conditions and help minimize tipping points, which lead to the voluntary occupation turnover. While Saxe et al. (2023) concentrated on adult coaches, van Dalfsen et al. (2023) studied youth football players (under the age of 17 years old) in the Netherlands to better understand shared leadership at the youth level while also having developed the Youth Athlete Shared Leadership (YASL) scaled. As the only quantitative based study in the current ...
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
... In June 2022, the English Premier League (EPL) club Chelsea FC sold for a record $3.1 billion to a group led by PE investor Clearlake Capital. In August 2022, a group of investors led by Walmart heir Rob Walton acquired the Denver Broncos of National Football League (NFL) for a new record price of $4.65 billion. In February 2023, NBA owners approved Matthew Ishbia’s acquisition of the Phoenix Suns for a league-record $4 billion, nearly double the prior mark for an NBA sale, which was $2.35 billion ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... statements, and social media posts. The authors employed an ethnomethodological approach and conversation analysis (CA) to examine official public 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 ...
State of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2023 (January - July)
... distance between two words where the higher the distance the lesser the connectedness. For example, the words ‘Olympic Games’, ‘athletes activism’, ‘social media’ were both interrelated and dominant in the research. They were complemented by ‘football’, ‘esports’ and ‘sponsorship’, which were also closely related to each other. A similar cluster of interrelated key words appears around ‘Covid19’, ‘computers’ and ‘management’. The power of the different types of networks ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... The paper concluded that the production of these discourses enables extractives companies to downplay their contributions to settler colonialism through land denigration and colonial authority. Fields of corruption: heritage and politics in Brazilian football This research paper by Bertazzo, Tobar and Ramshaw, published in the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, investigated how and why political stakeholders influenced by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) have rejected football-based ...
Geography of Sport Management Research in 2022
... sport research domains Summaries of the topics covered by articles in each domain are provided below for a better understanding of the context. Professional 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 ...
Sport Management Communications
... Politics of Streetball, Americans support to black athletes who kneel during the national anthem, athlete activism effect on brand image, the performance of identity in prize fighting promotion, exploring discourses about race/ethnicity in a Spanish TV Football Program, and socially conscious marketing during sporting events. - Sport and mediatization (Communication & Sport had a special issue on this topic and some of the studies include): the mediatization of professional tennis from the 1980s to ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... and societal phenomena. For example, Read and Lock (2022) used image repair theory combined with the social identity approach to leadership as a way to explore sport organizations’ communication and response to societal crises, namely, the National Football League (NFL) players’ U.S. national anthem protests. Swanson et al. (2022) conducted a study, which looked at the role of servant leadership in U.S. professional sport organization employee well-being. Well-being encompassed several aspects ...
Sport Leadership
... and societal phenomena. For example, Read and Lock (2022) used image repair theory combined with the social identity approach to leadership as a way to explore sport organizations’ communication and response to societal crises, namely, the National Football League (NFL) players’ U.S. national anthem protests. Swanson et al. (2022) conducted a study, which looked at the role of servant leadership in U.S. professional sport organization employee well-being. Well-being encompassed several aspects ...
Sport Economics
... articles from sport management and sport marketing journals authored by researchers most often associated with those disciplines. There has been, as the authors note, a proliferation of attendance demand studies since the inception of the JSE in 2002. Football (soccer), baseball, and American football constitute far and away the most studied sports in regard to stadium demand. Importantly, the authors state there is a lack of studies on both the demand for women’s sports and for niche, or other emerging,...
State of Sport Management Research in the second half of 2022 (July-December)
... journals’ special issues in sport management and sociology was analysed by Scelles (2021) and discussed in the previous issue. Four journals have published special issues which range from conceptual (ESMQ) to innovation (IJSMS), specific sport (i.e., football, JGSM), sport events cultures (C&S), and tracing the evolution of a discipline (i.e., sport economics, JSE). Table 2 shows the journals, special issues and guess editors. Table 2. Special issues published by selected sport management journals ...
Geography of sport management research in 2022
... the continental 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,...
Sport Management Communications
... performance enhancing drugs (IPED) use and gender on a new women-only online IPED forum, recontextualizing barstool sports and misogyny in online sports media, and gender bias 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: ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... conferences and interviews (see also Skinner’s analysis of the methodology used in this study in this issue of the Digest). Also contributing to research on sport, race and the media, van Lienden and van Sterkenburg (2022) examined Polish televised football as a cultural text on which racial and ethnic categorisations are constructed. Using a CRT framework, the researchers found that, despite largely positive discourses about players of all races/ethnicities, stereotypes about the physicality of ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... investment (FDI) by using the event study approach with a sample of 54 mega sporting events held in 33 host countries between 1960 and 2018. While the findings suggested that mega sporting events including the Summer Olympic Games, the Union of European Football Associations Championship, and the International Federation of Association Football World Cup led to increase in FDI into the host countries, hosting the Asian Games induced negative abnormal FDI. In addition, increases in FDI inflows were more ...
Sport Economics
... nine of the eleven labor market publications, most of those on traditional labor issues such as pay and performance, wage dispersion, and labor market discrimination. Although much prior research has examined American major league sports and European football, in this year’s 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 ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... broadcast featuring women were ice hockey, freestyle skiing, and snowboarding, which they noted differs from other studies. 3. Wicker, P., Orlowski, J., & Weimar, D. (2022). Referees’ Card-Awarding Behavior and Performance Evaluation in Professional Football: The Role of Teams’ Running Distance and Speed. International Journal of Sport Finance, 17(2). This study examined the effect of football teams’ distance covered and number of intensive runs on referees’ card-awarding behavior and their ...
State of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2022 (January-June): An Overview
... key words, 17 met the threshold of occurring more than 5 times. The size of the word indicates its weight. Figure 2 also helps to see the distance between two words where the higher the distance the lesser the connectedness. For example, the word ‘football’ dominated in the research published, followed by ‘social media’. In the same analysis of the SMD issue 1 (2), the word ‘football’ was closely related to ‘organisations’ and ‘governance’, but this time it was related to ‘sport ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... of the scope of an NSIS and how it works within complex governance landscapes and ethical frameworks. [1] ClearingSport: Almost 200 experts call for an agency against corruption and crime in world sport (playthegame.org) Equalities a) Homophobia in football Football has often been associated with the construction of a robust and assertive form of heterosexual masculinity and a site of virulent homophobia. Football has traditionally been an important cultural practice through which boys and men could ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... 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 a comprehensive methodological design....
Sport Governance and Policy
... 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, the identification of policy development (as a legacy aspect) as a result of hosting the Olympics, and the ...
Sport Communication
... media: racial inequality in college sport leadership, sport media and racial bias towards athlete transgressors, cyber racism toward Black athletes, sports talk radio hosts discussion of racism, Colin Kaepernick and the measures 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 ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... charity. 3. Advances in Corruption The two papers published on sports corruption focused on the causes and consequences of malfeasance. First, Moriconi and De Cima (2021) drew from structural constraints theory to unpack reasons why referees manipulate football matches. Causes of sports match-fixing literature has tended to focus on individual motivations to manipulate. An important contribution to broadening our understanding of the causes of corruption was to map the specific cultural and relational ...
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management*
... case of supporter (or fan) representation on the board. This research contributes to the governance literature and advances SET by focusing on a particular type of board member—the supporter representation—a common board member role in European football clubs, yet a role rife with challenges in establishing trust and confidence in abilities as a board member. The authors extend the SET literature through their finding of the concept of “buy-in” as a critical component of the social exchange ...
Geography of sport management research
... study by Toffoletti 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 ...
State of Sport Management Research in 2021: An Overview
... lesser the connectedness. For example, the word ‘impact’ dominated in the research published. The study of ‘impact’ is closely related to ‘events’, the ‘Olympics’ and ‘success’ and less to ‘host cities’. Similarly, the word ‘football’ is closely related to ‘organisations’ and ‘governance’, whereas ‘economics’ is related to ‘demand’, ‘pay’ and ‘players’. Both the different types of networks and the author co-citation (ACC) analysis have the power ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... between governmental stakeholders, sport soft power strategies and tactics, stadium development, gender-related issues (e.g., the recruitment and selection process for board members in sports federations, and policy design for girls’ practice of sport), football policy (implementation and integration), boards roles in football clubs, leadership innovation, and national level governance convergence. Although this range of topics is not new, the focused contexts are somewhat different, or researchers have ...
Sport Communication
... representation (TV, print, and social media) of disability, mental illness, and women in sport. Four articles dealt with media consumption behaviour of (a) television viewers (activities while viewing televised sports), and (b) college and professional football players and fans (consumption of social media). 2. Advances in sport management communications The nine studies under consideration were researched in different contexts of sports such as the Olympic Games (e.g., the Rio Olympics), professional ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... well documented in the broader communications and management literature, this paper is of the few studies in a sport context to examine these phenomena. Ge and Humphrey (2021ab) conducted two event study methodological studies on the impact of National Football League (NFL) athletes off-field misconduct on sponsors. The first study (2021a) analyzed the stock prices of firms sponsoring the NFL league, teams, and sponsors where off-field conduct negatively impacted team sponsors versus league and stadium ...
Sport Leadership
... concussion legislation” and is written by Landy Di Lu (Western University) and Kathryn Heinze (University of Michigan). The other JSM study is entitled “Agency theory and principal–agent alignment masks: An examination of penalties in the national football league,” written by Jeremy Forman (University of Louisiana at Lafayette), Joshua Bendickson (University of Louisiana at Lafayette), and Birton Cowden (Kennesaw State University). Next, the first of two IJSPP articles covered in this edition ...
Sport Economics
... 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 Leagues. This seems to be particularly relevant since Minor League teams often share the same markets ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... Paper 2 was published in a Special Issue of European Sport Management Quarterly 21(3). The paper was authored by Daniel Weimar, Lisa Carola Holthoff and Rui Biscaia. It was entitled: ‘A bright spot for a small league: Social media performance in a football league without a COVID-19 lockdown’. The authors used daily follower statistics (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube) three months before. during, and three months after the lockdown. By employing social media follower statistics of the Belarus ...