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Sport Communication
... psychological involvement. Online survey was delivered on both United States and Chinese websites. A total of 513 people participated in this study: U.S. local fans (n = 158), U.S. nonlocal fans (n = 142), and Chinese distant fans (n = 213). The author recruited local fans and nonlocal fans via Amazon Mechanical Turk. The findings informed that Chinese distant fans exhibited the highest levels of motivation in seven out of the nine motivational categories measured. Furthermore, the study found that ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... by conducting focus groups with representatives from 29 clubs and interviews with four recreation professional staff at three universities across the United States. For this study, three CSC programs across the US were selected. The researchers then recruited 68 sport club executives representing 29 individual CSCs. The club sizes ranged from 15 to 100 members, with an average membership of approximately 36. Additionally, four recreational sport professional staff across University A (n = 2), University ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... experts’ reasoning over multiple rounds. It also increases reliability, as industry experts are proactively involved. In this study, a total of 61 sport sponsorship experts enagaged in sponsorship practice from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland were recruited for a total of three iterative rounds. The authors’ findings indicated that multiple sponsors as well as the sponsee integrate resources beyond the sponsorship contract, which include management competencies, technical competencies, networking ...
Sport Management Communications
... conducted a between-subjects experimental study of the effect of gender in reporting on the NFL. For this purpose, they employed two (one female and one male) current and veteran sports reporters. The survey participants (N = 491 United States residents recruited through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Service) have been randomly assigned (male-fact (n = 126), male-opinion (n = 123), female-fact (n = 125) or female-opinion (n = 117) condition) and asked to watch a recorded video either of the male or female ...
Sport Management Communications
... 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 metrics, being a female sports journalist on Twitter, and “digital” sports journalism. Media coverage of concussion: media narratives about concussions, and media framing ...
Sport Leadership
... student-athletes (Chiu et al., 2022). Much like in the broader organizational behavior research track, turnover intentions in the intercollegiate context are integral to understanding as keeping these intentions low can not only save team resources in having to recruit more players but can also impact the psychological well-being of the team and its individual athletes (Chiu et al., 2022). Through their SEM and related quantitative analyses, Chiu et al. (2022) found that LMX had a negative influence on turnover ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... interviews. Following this round, the participants reached consensus about the roles involved in sponsorship decision-making and added no further roles. The authors therefore stopped the data collection with this sample. For their third iteration, they recruited another, independent sample as they aimed to increase the confirmability of the research by discussing the first-round interview results with unbiased members of the research population (Day & Bobeva, 2005). The authors again conducted semi-structured ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... the interview data were organised into three main themes. Firstly, the importance of the environmental framework of elite distance running and the contexts in which it takes place and attendant doping risks. Secondly, how long-distance athletes are recruited by agents into the sport was considered critical. Particular criticism was made of agents with funding from major sponsors who did not undertake due diligence in the recruitment of young runners or did not monitor or mentor them effectively....
Sport Governance and Policy
... 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 investigation of the reasons for opposition to implementing ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... observed and initially interviewed three groups: members of the Organizing Committee, government officials, and local Daegwallyeong-myeon residents — the three major stakeholder groups that resided in Daegwallyeong-myeon. The authors endeavoured to recruit interviewees according to pertinent social labels such as gender, age, role in the community, length of time living in the community, and occupation. Interview questions differed for each group and at each stage of the fieldwork. Sample interview ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... penalty”) in the context of corruption in intercollegiate sports. A synthetic control analysis was carried out on longitudinal data (1980-2019) of team performance and university finances. The findings showed that team performance was negatively affected recruiting and on field performance, while the University had decreased revenue earnings. An unintended consequence of the severe sanction was the demise of the conference (i.e., league). This study supports previous literature of the impact of corruption ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... issues pertinent to policy and governance have devoted their attention to the areas of inter-organisational relationships 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 ...
Sport Leadership
... participation opportunities and leadership positions from 2010-11 to 2016-17” and is written by Mark Norman (McMaster University), Peter Donnelly (University of Toronto) and Bruce Kidd (University of Toronto). The other IJSPP study is called “Gendering of recruitment and 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 ...
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management
... Agency theory Effects of race on coaches’ lateral moves Homologous reproduction theory Hybrid management work in elite sport Relational sociology Innovation in national governing bodies of sport Organisational theory (dynamic capabilities) Gendering of recruitment and selection processes to boards Organizational logic and inequality regimes Organizational logic and inequality regimes Corporate Social Responsibility The Internal CSR and Sponsorship-linked Health Care Strategy Model Ambush marketing ...