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The Geography of Sport Management Research in 2023
... Note: NA = North America; EU = Europe; OC = Oceania; AS = Asia; AF = Africa; CSA = Central and South America; CC = Cross-continental; IN = International. Geography of SM knowledge production Each empirical article examined was authored by a research team and published in a specific journal. This information provides insights into the geographical distribution of SM knowledge production. Subsequently, two sets of analyses were reported: (1) the association between the continental contexts of the articles ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... event’s social media activities, and athletes’ ‘coopetitive’ relationships with other participating athletes were predictors of athletes’ follower growth. This research highlights the importance of non-league sport events with representative teams as strategic opportunities for athletes to grow their social media brands through vertical and horizontal brand relationships. In the third article, Noh et al. (2023) applied Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET) with data collected through ...
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
... papers. New assessments on the demand for sport Demand for sport is a relatively broad area, but analysis of demand is fundamental to the economics of sports. At one time analysis of demand focused almost exclusively on spectator attendance at major team sport events and contests like football in Europe and Baseball in North America (see Borland and MacDonald, 2003). However, in recent years analysis of demand has expanded to consider the demand for viewing other sports and consumption of sport via ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 15:4, 577-602, DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2228829 In this current issue, five studies from top journals in our discipline are highlighted below. Three of the studies were conducted by British research teams, one from Canada, and one from the US. These studies typically employed document analysis approaches, with or without the supplementation of qualitative interview data. They cover the following topics: an analysis of Canadian sport policy over the ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... extract text information and select or systematically exclude articles that eventually guided the analysis. The authors selected articles dealing with the elements negotiated in diplomatic discussions (events or sports, the creation of a unified Korean team, ceremonies, cultural programmes and the creation of two organising committees), the rhetorical justifications specific to negotiations (the use of history, peace, unity of the Koreas or between socialist countries, the ‘apolitical’ nature of ...
Sport Communication
... Matter to the NBA: The Impact of Sport Fanship and Political Affiliation on the Perception of the NBA’s Racial Justice Initiatives During the 2020 Playoff Bubble. International Journal of Sport Communication, 16(2), 121-135. This study, conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Alabama and the University of Kentucky, explored the nuanced and complex relationship between sports fanship, political affiliation, and perceptions of the NBA’s racial justice initiatives during the 2020 Playoff ...
The Geography of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2023
... to have an inconsistent pattern (AF: 100%; CSA: 50%; AS: 33.3%). The pattern of cross-continental collaboration represents a desired form of SM knowledge production allowing due cultural sensitivity, assuming that at least one author in the research team is native to the culture of the research context. Over 20% of the article in the covered period assumed a knowledge production pattern of cross-continental collaboration, particularly in the Global South (AS: 42.4%, 14 articles; CSA: 50%, 1 article)....
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... Esports consumers’ perceptions of non-endemic sponsorship by adapting a well established sport sponsorship model to the context of Esports to test key relationships’ salience to sponsors. They find that nonendemic sponsors can benefit from Esports team sponsorship through enhanced attitudes, perceived goodwill, and product purchase intentions. In addition, the study shows that there is only a small effect of Esports brand attitude on attitude toward the sponsor, yet a larger effect on perceived ...
Sport Leadership
... another unique aspect of van Dalfsen and colleagues’ work is the emphasis to understanding the antecedents of shared leadership at the youth sport participant level. Conversely, much of the shared leadership work around sport had been centered on adult team or management contexts (van Dalfsen et al., 2023). Having used the Shared Professional Leadership Inventory for Team (SPLIT) created by Grille and Kauffeld (2015) and the Six Natural Leaders Questionnaire (SNLQ) by Van Vugt and Ahuja (2011) as the ...
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
... investor group led by the owner multiple professional clubs, Josh Harris, finalized the purchase of the NFL’s Washington Commanders for just over $6 billion, a nearly 30% increase over the Broncos sale price, which had been the high-water mark for a team in any sport. The 2020s 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 ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... formulated a model elucidating how EDI policies may paradoxically perpetuate the exclusions they aim to mitigate, calling for ‘reproducing the status quo’ and ‘reproducing the excludable other’. Regarding practical applications, the research team has generated practitioner-oriented resources that not only critique existing issues but also propose viable policy alternatives. These resources have been extensively disseminated and are accessible for scholarly review at the following: recreation-collective....
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... Professional Sport and Initial Mental Health Public Disclosure Narratives (Elsey et al., 2023) Despite the routine of disclosing reasons for absences from professional sporting career activities to the media (e.g. press statements, media interviews, team websites, social media posts), there is a general absence of disclosure as soon as the reasons relate to mental health concerns. Indeed, players seem to struggle to define, describe, and conceptualise their mental health issues whilst maintaining ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... politicians which is often considered an administrative decision made by heritage experts at Heritage Committees following technical criteria. In this context, this research presented nine proposed legal recognitions of football and the Brazilian National Team as part of the nation’s cultural heritage. The authors also further discussed how and why these proposals were rejected. By doing so, the authors employed a qualitative and longitudinal study by applying document and observational analysis to discuss ...
Geography of Sport Management Research in 2022
... America: 85.3%; Europe: 79.7%; Oceania: 64.0%). Second, for the articles with a geographical context in the Global South, the majority was produced by authors with institutional affiliation in another continent or by a cross-continental collaborative team (e.g., Asia: 43.9% by cross-continental research teams; 26.3% by authors based in the Global North; Africa: one article each by a cross-continental authorship, and authors based in Asia; Central and South America: three articles by authors based ...
Sport Management Communications
... small-nation context, and video assistant referee at the 2018 World Cup. - Sport fanship: sports fan categorization, sports fanship changes across the lifespan, dimensions of sense 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 ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... leadership in U.S. professional sport organization employee well-being. Well-being encompassed several aspects measured around employee life satisfaction, physical health, and teamwork. Staying in the U.S., Hayduk (2022) examined Major League Baseball (MLB) team owners and their past business involvement and acumen towards business intelligence (BI) and whether or not high acumen in BI led to improved operating margins for their teams. The remaining two articles took to investigating inclusion policies and ...
Sport Leadership
... leadership in U.S. professional sport organization employee well-being. Well-being encompassed several aspects measured around employee life satisfaction, physical health, and teamwork. Staying in the U.S., Hayduk (2022) examined Major League Baseball (MLB) team owners and their past business involvement and acumen towards business intelligence (BI) and whether or not high acumen in BI led to improved operating margins for their teams. The remaining two articles took to investigating inclusion policies and ...
Sport Economics
... is seminal to the economic analysis of sport. The two groundbreaking papers Rottenberg (1956) and Neale (1964) both consider closely matched games or contests, such that the winner cannot be easily predicted beforehand as essential to the demand for team (Rottenberg) and individual (Neale) sports. Competitive balance policies, and the entire sports economic literature analyzing these policies, is predicated on the belief that more closely matched opponents, and a narrow distribution of talent across ...
Geography of sport management research in 2022
... Although a foreign researcher can “go local” – a practice commonly applied in anthropology studies – a local researcher may be better equipped to grasp ideas or meanings within the study context that are locally relevant. Furthermore, a research team comprising both local and foreign researchers may identify and interpret findings relatively efficiently, with due prudence to both local idiosyncrasy and cross-cultural generalisability. Accordingly, we plotted the continental distribution of the ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... 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 of Pierre Bourdieu, the study found male-dominated leadership teams, governance structures and practices that led to the exclusion of women from strategically important roles, thus preserving the long-standing position of men within the organisations. The authors concluded that the initiatives taken to increase ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... Delia, Melton, Sveinson, Cunningham & Lock 1 Customer engagement review McDonald, Biscaia,Yoshida, Conduit & Doyle 1 Sport brand review Baker, Kunkel, Doyle, Su, Bredikhina & Biscaia 1 CSR and marketing Schyvinck, Naraine, Constandt & Willem 1 League/teams branding Behrens, Yang & Uhrich* Pritchard, Cook, Jones, Bason & Salisbury 2 Sports sponsorship Sponsorship effects Eshghi, Shahriari & Ray Weimar, Holthoff & Biscaia Mamo, James & Andrew 3 Sponsor retention Jensen, Head, Monroe & Nestler 1 Event ...
Sport Leadership
... findings centered on several aspects. First, the historical evolution of the CGLP was an important finding to chronologically examine how the partnership transpired. Within this finding, it was evident that communication between the NEST leadership team and that of the U.S. university was paramount for the CGLP to evolve to meet the needs of the athletes and allow them the educational opportunities to enhance their various capabilities. The partnership grew to involve the host U.S. university integrating ...
Sport Economics
... of innovative behavioral economics on the sports economics literature. Additionally, behavioral applications best categorized as performance analysis is covered in several papers published already in 2022. Included are performance under pressure in team handball (Bühren and Träger, 2022), the effects of a sophomore slump in EPL soccer (Kim, Kim, and Kang, 2022), the effects of more running on the behavior of football referees (Wicker et al, 2022), and refence points in auto racing (Yaskewich, ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... intrusive sample collection process, and examined how their interaction with athletes influenced the implementation of anti-doping policy. Informed by Lipsky’s theory of street-level bureaucracy and Goffman’s dramaturgical perspective, the research team conducted 18 interviews with elite athletes, active doping control officers, National Anti-doping Organisation officers, chaperones, sports team doctors and anti-doping policy officers from sport organisations. Their study shows that the discretion ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... researchers had referee experiences, which ensured a balance of both an insider and outsider perspectives throughout the coding process (Willig, 2007). Allen-Collinson (2009) highlighted that having insider and outsider perspectives allowed the research team to avoid “imposing their own meanings and constructs upon the accounts of the ‘expert’ participants” (p. 209). After coding the 20 transcripts, an iterative process was utilised to condense the most salient first level codes into emergent ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... extreme homophobic attitudes. The authors attribute this apparent paradox to cultural lag where the use of homophobic language trails behind support for gay players. [2] Harvey, A. (2017). ‘Academics v activists: making sense of homophobia in male team sport’. In Kilvington, D, and Price, J. (eds.) Sport and Discrimination. London: Routledge. b) Racism in sport Critical race theory (CRT) continues to prove to be a powerful tool to explain the intractability of racial discrimination and prejudice ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... interest in this topic over the past decades in the extant literature. Among them, Pontes, Pontes, Jin and Mahar (2021) examine three factors influencing sponsorship effectiveness, namely audience perceptions of sincerity regarding sponsor motives, fans team identification, and perceived fit. While all three factors have been been identified in previous research, this study contributes to the literature by demonstrating that the effect of sponsorship articulation on perceived fit is mediated by perceived ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... industry peers influence Fortune 500 companies philanthropic giving and apply it to the professional US sport industry. In contrast to Marquis and Tilcsik (2016) findings, Yang and Babiak (2021) showed industry peers had more influence on professional teams’ charity giving than local team peers. Whilst framing theory is not a unique lens to examine media content, using a qualitative framing approach is novel to better understand how the media represents professional athlete philanthropy and the three ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... (Seidel & Fixon, 2013). The purpose of the paper was therefore to investigate the presence and applicability of design thinking in a sport organization. To acheibve this, a qualitative case study of the Sydney Sixers, a sport organization that fields teams in both of Australia’s top-flight domestic cricket competitions: The Women’s and Men’s Big Bash Leagues (WBBL and BBL, respectively), was employed. In line with the authors’ social constructivist approach, data were collected through multiple ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... engagement in sport amongst both their employees and the public was another reported challenge to effective policymaking. These created barriers and reduced opportunities for trans athletes to engage in sport. Drawing on policy enactment theory, the research team echoed that local and national contexts were influential in shaping policy, and acknowledged the values of the administrators within those organisations (who were tasked with the creation of the policies), whereby, as policy actors, they have played ...
Sport Communication
... are listed below: - Women sport and sport media: self-representation of women’s sport fandom on Instagram, espnW (website) and presentation of female athletes, bias in sport journalism in women’s tennis, media framing of women ice hockey Olympic team, the meanings attached to women’s use of performance and image enhancing drugs, Olympic broadcasters framing of gender on Instagram, and male and female athletes’ representation on men’s magazine covers. - Mental health and sport media: Kevin ...
Sport Leadership
... and power dynamics as important factors for better understanding the nuances of coach-administrator relationships. For example, trust is a key ingredient for success due to the interdependence, level of flexibility, and close cooperation required in team sports environments, yet the limited tenure of many coaches and administrators is often not a recipe for reaching the high-trust phase relationships. The researchers also note the complexities of power relations in these types of relationships, and ...
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management*
... TV use, social outcomes, and social identity. The social outcomes of sociability, social capital, and social presence were all influenced by social TV use. However, perceived social presence did not influence the level of an individual’s national team identification or Winter Olympic fandom. That is, identity as a fan of a national team or the Winter Olympics was not shaped by the feeling of being with others—the authors suggest social presence may not be critical to fan identity formation. ...
Sport Economics
... (Issue 1): 8 papers, hereof 0 covering sport economics related research. These 40 papers fall into seven different categories: Performance analysis (such as home advantage or reference point behaviour): 8, Economic effects (such as the effects of sport teams, facilities or events): 7, Labour market issues (such as labour market restrictions or salary determinants): 7, Sports demand (such as the determinants of stadium attendance and TV viewing): 7, Sports participation (such as the effects on health ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... interest in this topic over the past decades in the extant literature. Among them, Pontes, Pontes, Jin and Mahar (2021) examine three factors influencing sponsorship effectiveness, namely audience perceptions of sincerity regarding sponsor motives, fans team identification, and perceived fit. While all three factors have been been identified in previous research, this study contributes to the literature by demonstrating that the effect of sponsorship articulation on perceived fit is mediated by perceived ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... journal focus. Two papers studied sport corruption. One paper examined corruption’s impact on event sponsors. Whilst one another investigated the media’s role in communicating corruption. Two papers examined athlete misconduct and its effect on team, stadium, and league sponsors. Three papers investigated the topic of match-fixing in terms of its causes, its impact on demand, and governing body policy responses. Three papers examined sexual assault and violence. One examined institutional image ...
Sport Communication
... football players and fans (consumption of social media). 2. Advances in sport management communications The nine studies under consideration were researched in different contexts of sports such as the Olympic Games (e.g., the Rio Olympics), professional team sports (e.g., NFL, NBA), and college sport (e.g., D-I Football). Also, the studies were guided by different theories and conceptual frameworks such as social cognitive theory, framing theory, interpersonal behaviour theory. In addition, research ...
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management
... perspective represent fully-developed theories rather conceptual frameworks and approaches. The ‘Theory development’ section of the Sport Management Reader will be reviewed by Dr Lisa Kikulis from Brock University, Canada who will join the editorial team later in 2021 for the second issue of the SMD. Table 1 provides a snapshot of the range of topics addressed and the theoretical perspective used by sport management scholars in the first half of 2021 in the ten selected journals, as identified by ...
Sport Leadership
... the authors focused on how leaders (i.e., NFL head coaches) balance strategies for current (short-term) performance with how this may impact their future (long-term) head coaching opportunities. For example, the results indicated that coaches whose teams incurred more penalties and experienced more on-field success had a decreased likelihood of obtaining a head coaching job in the future. This research brings several considerations to the surface. First, while owners may indeed make rule changes ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... Communication on Facebook. Journal of Sport Management, 35(1), 44-54. The researchers at University of Tübingen investigated the effects of crisis communication on Facebook during the 2018 FIFA World Cup. In particular, the Facebook posts of the German team, captain Manuel Neuer and team member Thomas Müller, are examined based on the emoji reactions each received. In addition, the researchers used data from a two-wave panel study among a representative sample of adult German Internet users conducted ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... under which national football associations from the countries of Brazil, China and Italy implement the FIFA’s global strategy for women football development, specifically relevant to the policy demanding men’s football clubs to integrate a women’s team within their structure. Using the multiple streams framework, the authors conduct secondary data analysis of the official policy documents, media reports and past related literature respectively for the three cases focused. They conclude that whilst ...