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Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... findings indicated that the initiative struggled to define social cohesion, and this had ramifications upon managerial practices and strategy. Further, this had a flow-on effect to programs, contributing to deteriorations in social networks and issues with socio-cultural assumptions What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences This paper, published in the Journal of Sport Management by Sveinson & Toffoletti, investigated how women, ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... The authors use a broad-based Foucauldian theoretical approach that deploys concepts of discourse, bio-power, discipline and governmentality to analyse and understand the sets of relations and contexts in which NGBs develop equality policies and the socio-cultural effects these may produce. Through a document analysis of equality policies, the authors discovered that NGB policymaking in this area was significantly related to resources, especially if those came from Sport England where funding may ...
Geography of sport management research
... professional sport, community sport, collegiate athletics), a specific country (or several countries), and, often, a specific sport (or several sports). It is produced by an authorship whose approach to and interpretation of SM research are underpinned by the socio-cultural milieu in which they work. As such, SM research requires a contextualized understanding of reality (Henry, 2007). An analysis of the geography of SM research offers both an additional lens to appreciate the status of knowledge production ...
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management
... Cunningham, Fink and Doherty (2015). The editors have grouped different theoretical perspectives employed by sport management researchers into four categories including managerial theories (with 13 theories), marketing theories (including eight theories), socio-cultural theories (including five theories) and economic theories (including three theories). The list of 29 theories covered by the Handbook is by no means exhaustive and as the articles included in the first issue of the Sport Management Digest ...