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The Geography of Sport Management Research in 2023
... articles in the Asian context were either produced by research teams affiliated with Asian institutions (35%) or by collaborative teams drawing authors with affiliations spanning continents (30%). Finally, cross-continental research teams were not only responsible for the highest number of articles in both cross-continental (72%) and international contexts (55%), but also contributed to the greatest number of articles situated in the Africa context (67%). Table 3. Continental context versus author institutional ...
Sport Communication
... representation and bias. Specifically, the articles examine how gender, especially transgender athletes' participation, challenges traditional narratives and draw out media controversies, alongside examining the influence of national sentiments in consumer responses to advertising. Additionally, the articles address the ways in which auditory qualities impact media representation, investigate the complex relationship between sport entities and their fan bases, and examine the portrayal of athletes in media ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... seeks to examine how consumers respond to social statements made by both companies and sports celebrities and how those reactions influence consumer perceptions of associated brands. The authors utilized a pre-test/post-test experimental design to gather responses to pro-social messages from both athletes associated with a brand and messages directly from the brands. The results showed that messages from celebrities were evaluated as being more important than similar messages directly from the company....
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
... review addressing the effect of outcome uncertainty on demand. Rottenberg’s (1956) uncertainty of outcome hypothesis (UOH) is indeed one of the most considered topics sports economics analyses of demand. Numerous studies have investigated fans’ responses to outcome uncertainty in various professional and international sports contexts. Borland & MacDonald, (2003) provide a thorough review to that point in time. Within literature, the unpredictability of game-level outcomes has been primary in ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... advocating for a sport-focused model that respects the unique value systems, local traditions, and institutional frameworks of sport organisations. Harris, S., Jedlicka, S., Pielke Jr, R., & Ryan, H. (2023). The politics of exclusion: Analysing U.S. state responses to interscholastic transgender athletes. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 15(4), 757-778. DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2242878. This paper examines the legislative actions against transgender athletes' participation in U.S. ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... well-structured approach to handling data, helping to produce a clear and organised final narrative. The data analysis revealed themes related to the negative impact of COVID-19 on local teams, players, and administrators. Another central theme was the responses of football authorities in Zimbabwe to COVID-19. The findings also revealed how COVID-19 entrenched and worsened the already existent economic and political challenges facing football in Zimbabwe, which included poor financial sustainability ...
State of Sport Management Research in the second half of 2023 (July - December): An Overview
... special issues addressing individual-level brand management in sport (ESMQ), name, image, and likeness and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (JSM), and the impact of global economic downturn on sport management (JGSM). Fourteen editors were responsible for soliciting, reviewing and editing these special issues. Individually and collectively, these special issues make a significant contribution to advancing our knowledge and the field of sport management in general. Table 2 shows the journals,...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... Esports and environment continuing to grow. With respect to sport sponsorship, articles continued to be published on topic areas related to sponsorship mechanisms, sponsorship effectiveness, sponsorship evaluation, ambush marketing, corporate social responsibility (CSR), etc. Table 1. Selected Publication in Sport Marketing and Sponsorship Areas Topics Author(s) Quantity Sport marketing (31) Athlete branding Liu, Baker III & Leopkey (2003) 1 Brand communication Sears, Cianfrone & Kellison (2003) ...
Sport Leadership
... as a way to examine shared leadership’s influence on a variety of youth sport outcomes. From a practical standpoint, this work allows coaches of youth sport teams to recognize the need to allow all players opportunities to share in the leadership responsibility, not just the formal leaders while recognizing that traditional hierarchical leadership structures may not be the best suited. Continuing with the study of shared leadership in sport, Kang and Svensson (2023) examined its benefits and challenges ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... common language and framework, as disparities between policy and practice could lead to duplication and manipulation, undermining the effectiveness of measures. In terms of the implications for policy, the study suggests the need for clearer roles, responsibilities, and language to bridge the gap between policy and actual practice. The study also highlights the opportunity for renewed policy cohesion through outcomes-based strategies, especially as the public sector increasingly recognises the role ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... Sport clubs are usually quite complex organisations that amateur athletes lead. The amateurs not only play for the club but also run the day-to-day activities and interact with internal and external actors. According to the authors, the actions and responsibilities of club members are well researched. However, little is known about these clubs' relationships with other internal and external actors. Therefore, this study investigated exchange relationships within collegiate sport clubs (CSCs) by ...
State of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2023 (January - July)
... Management Digest offers valuable guide to scholars, practitioners and students of sport. The high-level summaries included in this issue can serve as an 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!...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... book review) 5 21 International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics - 34 (incl. one editorial and two book reviews) 5 39 Journal of Global Sport Management - 15 (incl. one editorial) 21 36 Journal of Sport Economics - 8 (incl. one commentary and one response) 20 28 Journal of Sport Management - 18 9 27 Sport Management Review 4 14 12 30 Overall Total 15 148 125 288 Though the application of qualitative and quantitative research approaches is quite balanced, qualitative research articles have utilised ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... policing space, (4) I am just doing my job and (5) giving opportunities to those close to me. Forsdike, K., & Fullagar, S. (2021). ‘Addressing the Complexity of Violence Against Women in Sport: Using the World Café Method to Inform Organizational Response’. Journal of Sport Management, 36(5), 473-487. The authors deploy an innovative method of World Café technique to gather data on the persistent problem of violence against women in Australian community sport. The procedure involves gathering ...
Sport Management Communications
... of membership in a sport fan community, and fan opposition to sports team relocation. - Media portrayal: print media framing of the Olympic Games, media discourse of the South Korean Olympic ice hockey team and its naturalized athletes, and audience responses to media portrayals of professional athletes and intimate partner violence. - Sport and politics: military-related remembrance rhetoric in UK sport, paralympic broadcasting in sub-Saharan Africa, the National Basketball Association, China, and ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... through a leadership lens to further understand sport 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 ...
Sport Leadership
... through a leadership lens to further understand sport 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 ...
Geography of sport management research in 2022
... of sports, providing room to explore unchartered territory in the testing and generation of SM theory. Second, reflecting the development trajectory of both modern sport and SM as an academic discipline, SM researchers based in the Global North are responsible for the lion’s share of SM knowledge production. SM knowledge is also largely concentrated in the contexts of North America and Europe. Third, the trend of international collaborations among SM researchers is encouraging. Of the 34 articles ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... ranking individuals from advocacy organisations, MSE event holders and intermediary organisations. Using an interpretivist methodology, they analysed the data using a thematic analysis approach. Four broad themes were found – i) a growing acceptance of responsibility by MSE awarding bodies of their human rights obligations; ii) a recognition that MSEs can be leveraged as a vehicle to promote human rights; iii) the emergence of a more balanced and constructive relationship between MSE award bodies and ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... directly influence spectators’ adoption attitudes and usage intentions, but also indirectly influence actual FEA use through attitudes and intentions. It also revealed that that reasons for adoption had a stronger relative impact on spectators’ responses to FEA than reasons against. In addition, the study also delineated the relative contribution of specific pro-adoption and anti-adoption factors to overall reasons for and against adoption, with perceived enjoyment and social interaction identified ...
Sport Leadership
... coaches in Germany on nonprofit sport clubs as leaders and what factors influenced their intention to increase their own human capital; namely, coaching education. With differing roles between coaches and trainers in German club sports where coaches are responsible for one sport whereas trainers are involved in more than one sport as well as a sport’s fitness program, Breuer et al. (2022) targeted coaches for their study. A framework based on human capital theory and rational choice theory (Becker,...
Sport Economics
... in referee training, yet the results of this study suggest that both the total distance covered by players on the field and the distance covered at higher intensity have measurable effects on referees’ behavior. The authors suggest that instructors responsible for referee development should reconsider the design and focus of referee training. The third paper by Yaskewich, and also the IJSF January edition, is likewise a behavioral economics application. The paper covers the rarely studied sport ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... today were more closely intertwined with other policy domains because of sport's social benefits, related data-to-day practice at the local level, however, remained relatively unchanged. An interesting finding was that very little variation was found in response patterns across the nine locations despite their varied socio-demonphrahpic characteristics. Relevant to board governance, Wicker, Feiler and Breuer (2022) examined the effect of board gender diversity in German non-profit sport clubs. Using ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... 22 International Journal of Sport Communication 1 13 (incl. five book reviews) 7 21 International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics 4 15 4 23 Journal of Global Sport Management - 10 7 17 Journal of Sport Economics - 2 (incl. one commentary and one response) 14 16 Journal of Sport Management (excl. one Introduction and one Lecture) 1 17 (incl. one perspective) 11 29 Sport Management Review - 8 8 16 Overall Total 6 92 105 203 Similar to the previous Sport Management Digest volumes, the use of qualitative ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... is to prevent doping offences in the sport. Also using qualitative reflexive thematic analysis to understand the data collected from agents (n=8), race organisers (n=3) and major brand sponsors (n=2) they found that not all commercial sponsors felt responsible for anti-doping measures. Addressing a significant gap in the literature, the specific research questions asked: “1) How is doping in elite distance running perceived by the agents, race organisers, and sponsors who work in the sport?, 2) ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... Communication & Sport, International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, Journal of Sport Management, and Journal of Global Sport Management. Three topics were examined under the umbrella topic of Ethics and Sport Integrity including corporate social responsibility (CSR), corruption, and racism. Fourteen different authors (one authored three different papers) from three different countries (Belgium, Portugal, and United States of America) and from seven affiliations (Ghent University, Lisbon University ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... Bundesliga was distributed to fans of nine German Bundesliga football clubs (the same as in the pilot study plus Arminia Bielefeld and HSV Hamburg). IP addresses were recorded in the pilot study and in the main study to eliminate any potential duplicate responses. The convenience sample consisted of 965 football fans. Of these, 109 cases were removed due to excessive missing data. Another 22 cases were eliminated because they did not pass an attention check (the same was used for the pilot study). The ...
Sport Leadership
... 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: behavioral (e.g., economic justification), agency (e.g., displacement of responsibility), effects (e.g., denial of consequences), and victim (e.g., attribution of blame). The authors then overlay this framework of moral disengagement to better understand a fascinating array of sport integrity issues. For example, there are ...
Sport Communication
... involvement), and thug (i.e., associating them with the racialized term, “thug”). Brown, K. A., Dickhaus, J., Harrison, R., & Rush, S. (2021). Explaining the “racial contradiction”: An experimental examination of the impact of sports media use and response strategy on racial bias towards athlete transgressors. Communication & Sport, 9(5), 833-855 . Four researchers (from The University of Alabama, Bradley University, and Jefferson State Community College) investigated if the level of exposure to ...
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management*
... International Federations to achieve its own policy objectives and interests. For Harris et al (2021) the usefulness of Bergsgard’s framework is in its multidimensional approach to unpacking the exercise of power by the IOC relative to other stakeholders in response to the RDS. Lucas and O’Connor (2021) adopted a critical analytic lens to examine Sport for Development (SFD) policy implementation and impact for Indigenous Australians. In this paper the authors analyzed the content of three critical policy ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship, 22:(1), 164-178. doi:10.1108/IJSMS-05-2020-0101 The authors aim to explore how skateboarding is integrated into and drives the development and marketing of the city of Malmo. Author 1, the scholar and outsider, is responsible for building conceptualization and writing discussion and conclusion. And his co-author, the practitioner and insider, narrates experience related to the research questions to generate empirical data. They find the success of skateboarding ...
State of Sport Management Research in 2021: An Overview
... Management https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rgsm20 2016 4 N/A 46 12/26 Table 2 illustrates the top 10 publishing countries by authors’ institutional affiliation and the number of outputs. As might be expected, USA-based scholars (33 or 9%) have been responsible for most of all published studies in 2021 (195 or 51%). The contribution of American scholars is followed by those from England (scholars based in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are counted separately), Canada, Germany and other countries....
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... ethics, morality, and integrity is well discussed. I do not intend to engage in such a debate in this review. The term ethics is used expansively to include but not limited to: a) a meta-ethical dimension involving deciding what is right, wrong, duty, responsibility, and obligation (e.g., moral reasoning and justification, social responsibility); and b) applied ethics (normative ethics) where scholars apply a set of reference points to make moral justifications (i.e., applying principles, rules, virtues ...
Sport Communication
... claim that the balance of media representations of the Rio Paralympics was fully positive, the trend in the coverage of disability has been encouraging but needs to be tested further with future events. Similarly, Parrott et al. reported positive media responses and coverage of professional athletes’ disclosure of mental illness, which contrasts with the stereotypical news coverage. The media framed the disclosed athletes as showing strength of character for revealing their personal experiences with ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... framework of resource dependency and inter-organisational relationship theory. They conduct semi-structured interviews with ten provincial and national governmental stakeholders in elite sport, and conclude that there is a lack of clarity on the roles and responsibilities of governmental sport stakeholders; too many entities involved in sport has led to power struggles and non-cooperation, and a high dependency on government occurs because of lack of funding. Harris, S. J., Metzger, M. L., & Duening, T....
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management
... hierarchy Corruption and sponsors value Event study and efficient market hypothesis Organisational image repair Benoit’s (2006) image repair typology Athletes off-the field misconduct and sponsors’ risk Barnett’s (2104) theory of stakeholders’ response to organizational misconduct Role of media in communicating corruption Heidenhemier’s (2002) framework on perceptions of corruption Role of referees in match fixing Social Structural constraints: cultural (Skoog, 2005) & relational (Wasserman ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship, 22:(1), 164-178. doi:10.1108/IJSMS-05-2020-0101 The authors aim to explore how skateboarding is integrated into and drives the development and marketing of the city of Malmo. Author 1, the scholar and outsider, is responsible for building conceptualization and writing discussion and conclusion. And his co-author, the practitioner and insider, narrates experience related to the research questions to generate empirical data. They find the success of skateboarding ...
Sport Leadership
... and an ‘old boys’ network’ as the primary barriers. In contrast, the barriers identified from the male participants were a perceived lack of willingness and commitment by female candidates and a reluctance for women in these positions to take responsibility and preform management functions. Another key aspect of the findings was the female participants’ view that structural obstacles embedded in the system are more favourable for male candidates. These related to the role of male networks ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... social media data can be platform specific, in line with the structures and modes each one allows and encourages (Burgess & Matamoros-Fernández, 2016). As such, sport management researchers can discover how each platform itself channels certain forms of responses. A key implication is that researchers must remain mindful of the effects of each platform’s medium, including its architecture, displays, data types, policies, rules, hashtags and labels, advertising, and moderation or censorship (Pearce ...