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State of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2024: An overview
... sufficient detail research pertinent to different aspects of sport management. Owing to some editors stepping down and the time needed to replace them, we were unable to include a review of sport management theoretical developments, ethics research, leadership and communications which will be made available as soon as possible. Bibliometric analysis is the main tool used in science mapping, which allows to reveal the social, intellectual and organisational structure of sprot management as a discipline....
Sport Governance and Policy
... Administration of Sport of China to grant the CFA more autonomy. However, the study reveals that this depoliticisation process was incomplete, with re-politicisation occurring through the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) influence within the CFA’s leadership structure. The authors highlight three levels of depoliticisation—macro, meso, and micro—each of which involved different strategies to reduce government control. Despite the official reforms, the CCP retained significant influence, with ...
Sport Leadership
Introduction This edition of Sport Management Digest’s Sport Leadership section leads off with a review of the leadership research published in 2023. Since the previous edition, one work by Kang and Svensson (2023a) was published that related to sport leadership in the Journal of Sport Management (JSM). When reviewing ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... the English context, particularly through the lens of Sport England's Get Healthy Get Active (GHGA) initiative. It underscores the intricate power dynamics and partnerships at both local and national levels, highlighting how Sport England, despite its leadership role in coordinating community sport, relies significantly on external health organisations to achieve its objectives. The study, based on interviews with strategic policymakers, a professional football charity, and participants of the GHGA-funded ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... of a cross-sector leveraging partnership group, the Provincial Parasport Collective (PPC), after the event took place. By doing so, they focussed on investigating (1) factors contributing to post-event collaboration, (2) strategies, structures, and leadership mechanisms for the collaboration process, (3) and challenges PPC partners encountered in the post-event era. In this research, the authors deployed a longitudinal, qualitative case study approach to understand how an event-leveraging collaborative ...
Sport Leadership
Introduction This edition of Sport Management Digest’s Sport Leadership section includes a total of four articles. There is one article each from Sport Management Review (SMR), Journal of Sport Management (JSM), Journal of Global Sport Management (JGSM), and European Sport Management Quarterly (ESMQ). Each article ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... themselves as committed to diversity and inclusion by creating policies, programmes, and other initiatives. Nevertheless, this image of diversity and inclusion is often not reflected in organisational practices, given that white men primarily dominate leadership positions. For this reason, the authors utilised the principles of critical race theory as a framework to analyse documents produced by the National Basketball Association (NBA), Major League Baseball (MLB), National Football League (NFL) and ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
Introduction This edition of Sport Management Digest’s Sport Leadership section encompasses a total of five articles. The current edition includes two studies from the Journal of Sport Management (JSM), two from Sport Management Review (SMR), one from International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. Each of ...
Sport Leadership
Introduction This edition of Sport Management Digest’s Sport Leadership section encompasses a total of five articles. The current edition includes two studies from the Journal of Sport Management (JSM), two from Sport Management Review (SMR), one from International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. Each of ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... only the findings of the studies were relevant to sport policy in terms of practical implications. In addition, in order to avoid duplication of presentation, some articles may not have been highlighted here, but discussed in another section (e.g., leadership). The key messages from each of the papers reviewed are highlighted in turn in the following section. Advances in sport governance and policy research A research topic that has garnered increasing interest and has been a recurring theme in ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... argue that NGBs produce visible ‘signalling’ on equality rather than concrete plans to deliver it. Piggott and Matthews (2021) also found that NGBs may be engaging in a tick boxing exercise to satisfy funding regulations in their study of gender, leadership and governance. The authors conducted research within two long-established English national governing bodies (NGBs) – England Golf and the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA). Deploying a theoretical framework developed from the sociological work ...
Sport Leadership
Introduction This edition of the Sport Management Digest’s Sport Leadership section encompasses a total of seven articles. The current edition includes four studies from the Journal of Sport Management (JSM), one from Sport Management Review (SMR), one from European Sport Management Quarterly (ESMQ), and one from the ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... support (e.g. physio and sport psychology support). The authors concluded that holistic support for junior athletes is lacking at the secondary school 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 Leadership
1. Introduction This edition of the Sport Leadership section for Sport Management Digest covers a total of eight articles. The collection includes two studies each from European Sport Management Quarterly (ESMQ), the Journal of Sport Management (JSM), and Sport Management Review (SMR), and one ...
Sport Communication
... (the Olympics and FIFA World Cup): TV and the 2018 Winter Games, 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics, and usage of social TV (a second screen) during the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. - Race and sport 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 ...
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management*
... and Matthews (2021) are able to examine the complex nature of specific changes adopted by two NSGBs in their efforts to address gender equity and the ways in which this is done such that the taken for granted practices that support male dominance in leadership positions is maintained and unquestioned. Svensson et al. (2021) contributes to the theoretical development of human resource management in their examination of employee engagement as a concept that may help explain the link between employee ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... compared to other sport policy/governance-related studies published in the nine journals. Research, addressing policy/governance concerns in passing, is not 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 ...
Sport Leadership
1. Introduction This first edition of the Sport Leadership section for Sport Management Digest will cover a total of eight studies published in the first half of 2021 in four different journals. This list includes three articles from Sport Management Review (SMR), two from the Journal of Sport Management ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... 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 examined their cases through different theoretical lenses, and hence they facilitate ...
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management
... Implementation Theory of Sport Policy Factors Leading to International Sporting Success (SPLISS) Developing a Theory of Board Strategic Balance The Conception, Development, and Application of Sport-For-Development Theory Multidimensional Model of Leadership Organizational Justice Theory Development Managing Diversity Work-Family Conflict Theory Sport and Sense of Community Theory Marketing Theories Sponsorship-Linked Marketing Team Identity Theory Sport Consumer Behavior Brand Equity in ...