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Sport Leadership
... world, which present unique opportunities to explore leadership through different structures continues to add valuable insights to sport leadership, such as the work done by O’Boyle and colleagues (2023). In countries such as Australia where sport governing boards are common and influential, it is paramount to continue to explore how members of these boards view, enact, and understand leadership given their keen role in shaping sport for an entire country (or significant sections of a country)....
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 than papers ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... increase in the number of athletes who have changed their nationality to maximize their chances to compete in international competitions due to sport becoming more globalised. To maximize its chances at its home-hosted Winter Olympic Games, the Chinese government authorized many foreign-born athletes to gain Chinese citizenship to compete for China. The authors of this study explored how Chinese social media users perceived foreign-born athletes during the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games. With the ...
Sport Leadership
... is captured in data collection as leaders in SFD organizations from different levels or from different areas may view the benefits and challenges of shared leadership differently. The last article in the current edition centers on leadership among a governing board in an Australian nonprofit sport board. O’Boyle et al. (2023) performed 12 semi-structured interviews to gain insights into the relationship between intra-board leadership at a national board level to the leadership capacity across a ...
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
... have also seen an increased interest in sports leagues, clubs and organizations seeking funding from nontraditional sources, including Private Equity (PE) funders and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), which invests funds on behalf of the Government of Saudi Arabia. The NFL and NBA, for example historically had only allowed individuals to own shares in teams, have now come to embrace a wider range of investors. In 2021 the NBA changed ownership rules so that PE providers may acquire up ...
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
... first identified every equity-related statement within each of the 143 policy documents through Foucault’s subject-knowledge-power analytic triangle, which included: Analysing the kinds of subjects (e.g., the disabled person) being (re)produced and governed through the statement and its pre/prescriptions. Analysing how dominant knowledge (e.g., charity discourse) and knowledge systems (e.g., science) are being leveraged to render the statement and its author intelligible and authoritative Theorising ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... 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 piece examines the complexity of violence against women in sport. In this review, two articles are drawn from each of Communication ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... coaches positioned as leaders in this study, Hammond (2022) dove into exploring a different aspect of D&I from Turconi et al. (2022), with a focus on disability inclusion. Hammond noted that part of the impetus for this study stemmed from the Australian Government’s work to develop more inclusive sport for people with disabilities. This offers a unique cultural contribution as specific legislation; the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) prohibits coaches from discriminating against those with disability....
Sport Leadership
... coaches positioned as leaders in this study, Hammond (2022) dove into exploring a different aspect of D&I from Turconi et al. (2022), with a focus on disability inclusion. Hammond noted that part of the impetus for this study stemmed from the Australian Government’s work to develop more inclusive sport for people with disabilities. This offers a unique cultural contribution as specific legislation; the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) prohibits coaches from discriminating against those with disability....
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: LGBT+ policies, policy ...
State of Sport Management Research in the second half of 2022 (July-December)
... European Union Framework Programme for Research, the Social Sciences And Humanities Research Council Of Canada (SSHRC), the International Olympic Committee, FIFA, various governmental agencies, German Olympic Sports Confederation, ERASMUS, Australian government and Sport Canada, among others. It is worth mentioning the increasing role of university-funded research, which for example, accounts for 40% of all funded research published in the ESMQ and 25% in the SMR and the JGSM. Research funding is ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... Politics, the Journal of Sport Management, and Sport Management Review. Equalities Research and scholarship on sport and equalities continues to expand in the sports management literature. Perhaps, one of the most pressing and controversial topics for governing bodies and competition organisers is how, or even whether, to include athletes who do not fit easily into the binary categories of male or female. Brömdal and Rasmussen (2022) argue that powerful sport medical discourses that serve to produce ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... 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 continuous days (from 1 June 2017 ...
Sport Leadership
... case studies, Feddersen and Phelan (2022) captured focus groups of leaders (administrators) and stakeholders (athletes, parents, coaches) across the two different organizations throughout the ethnography. The organizations encompassed an Olympic sport governing body and a high-performance organization within Britain’s Performance Hub and referred to as the Institute. As both authors undertook ethnographic approaches to each organization, they used the Alvesson and Spicer (2012) concept of function ...
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 review features six articles produced by a group of scholars from Europe, Asia, and Australia (the full annotated bibliography can be found at the end of this review). The reviewed articles covered timely and novel topics, ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... level. 5. Nam, B. H., Marshall, R. C., Love, A., Graham, J., & Lim, S. (2022). Fostering global sport leadership: A partnership between a Korean sport organization and a US university. Journal of Global Sport Management, 7(1), 199-225. The South Korean government has initiated a programme to assist elite athletes in transitioning to roles as international sport administrators, coaches, and scholars.The purpose of this study was to examine the success and challenges of this programme. The authors’ ...
State of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2022 (January-June): An Overview
... countries. It should be noted that the geography of publications also includes scholars from Taiwan, Turkey, Singapore, Thailand and other less represented countries in the field. Sport management research has been funded by a range of research councils, governments, charities and commercial companies. Ninety-two agencies funded research published in the ten journals. The range of funding sources includes intergovernmental agencies such as the European Commission, DCICD, national governments (e.g., Canada,...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... development and implementation of such a body, an important intervention by Kihl (2023) in Sport Management Review foregrounds the complexities of designing national sports integrity systems (NSIS) where there are so many differences in the way sports are governed and managed in each country. The author takes on the daunting task of presenting a conceptual framework of an NSIS that can be operationalised in different countries and across many cultures. She defines an NSIS as “an intentionally designed ...
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 five articles produced by a group of scholars from North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. These articles are selected for the second issue because of their relatively strong theoretical contribution to, or the ...
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management*
... considering motivational and psychological aspects of consumers of social TV and recognizing the diversity and complexity of the changing social media landscape when examining the importance of social networks and fandom. Harris et al. (2021) adopts a governance theory perspective of network governance in international sport by adopting Bergsgard’s (2018) analytical framework to examine power and governance in international sport. Harris et al argue it is Bergsgard’s emphasis of the political and ...
Sport Leadership
... Recreation” written by Florian Hemme (High Point University), Dominic Morais (Trinity University), Matthew Bowers (University of Texas at Austin), and Janice Todd (University of Texas at Austin). Next, the JSM article entitled “Gender, Leadership, and Governance in English National Governing Bodies of Sport: Formal Structures, Rules, and Processes” written by Lucy Piggott (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Jordan Matthews (University of Chichester) is also considered. Two SMR articles ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... sourced from 4 months of fieldwork in the broader Daegwallyeong-myeon community during the summer of 2017 and the winter and spring of 2018. Semi-structured in-depth interviews, each lasting approximately 2 hours, were conducted with 40 local residents, government officials, and employees of the PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (POCOG). Participants were selected through non-probablity purposive and snowball sampling techniques to achieve broad representation. Additional data collection ...
State of Sport Management Research in 2021: An Overview
... (3) Norway 11 (2) University of Massachusetts Amherst University of Massachusetts Systems University of Michigan University of Michigan System West Virginia University 10 (3) Spain 11 (2) China 9 (2) Ninety-seven agencies including research councils, governments, charities and commercial companies funded research published in the ten journals. The greatest number of studies were funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada which provided grants for 6 projects on which these ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... Moriconi, M., & De Cima, C. (2021). Why some football referees engage in match-fixing? A sociological explanation of the influence of social structures. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 13(4), 545-563. The authors examined flaws in sport governance that influenced Portuguese football referees to engage in sport related match fixing. Framed from social theory of structural constraints, interview and document data were analyzed using grounded theory techniques. The findings showed that ...
Geography of sport management research
... distinctive SM discipline (Chalip, 2006; Henry, 2007). References Chalip, L. (2006). Toward a distinctive sport management discipline. Journal of Sport Management, 20, 1-21. Henry, I. (2007). Transnational and comparative research in sport: Globalisation, governance and sport policy. London: Routledge. McSweeney, M., Hayhurst, L., Wilson, B., Bandoles, E., & Leung, K. (2021). Colliding mandates of social enterprises: exploring the financial strategies, environment, and social market tensions of bicycles-for-development ...
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 articles ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... epistemologically the terms have similar root meanings (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 ...
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management
... vision) and craft (i.e., skills). Each of these three fundamental elements of management is the subject area of a number of scientific disciplines. As a result, significant advances have been made in our understanding of how organisations are structured, governed and change over time as well as how people working in those organisations are motivated, managed and developed. One of the comprehensive attempts to capture the variety of theoretical perspectives that inform research in sport management has ...
Sport Leadership
... selection processes to boards in Polish sports federations,” written by Natalia Organista (Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education). Finally, the last article covered in this section is from ESMQ and is entitled “Innovation in national governing bodies of sport: investigating dynamic capabilities that drive growth,” written by Spencer Harris, Matthew Metzger, and Thomas Duening (all from University of Colorado, Colorado Springs). Collectively, these studies cover a broad range of ...
Sport Economics
... instance, Pawlowski, Steckenleiter, Wallrafen, & Lechner (2021) for a recent exception). This is a severe limitation since a large portion of sports related public expenditures (e.g., for the construction of sport facilities) is regularly spent by local governments. Using fine-grained panel data and sophisticated econometric methods, the four papers reviewed in this section significantly advance our understanding on this topic by exploring the causal effects of professional sport teams, facilities and ...