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Sport Governance and Policy
... policy and sport governance published in the major sports journals in the second half of 2022. A total of six articles (all sport policy-focused), produced by scholars from Europe and North America, are highlighted here. The study topics include: LGBT+ policies, policy impact on the development of sport and physical activity participation, the influence of macro-environment on the field of sport policy and management, sport policy analysis framework, and sport policy initiatives evaluations. This collection ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... ways it has tried to get more people, especially men, interested in physical activity through the use of professional football's widespread appeal. The study by Peng and colleagues critically explores the hurdles encountered in executing youth football policies in China. This comes in the wake of the ambitious 2015 national football reform, which aimed at making China a global football powerhouse. The research employs a detailed case study approach, grounded in a critical realist view, and uses semi-structured ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... messages of each reviewed paper in turn. Papers in this section’s review Relevant to the topic of sport policy, Yang et al’s (2022) study examined anti-doping policy implementation processes in China. Whilst the topic of anti-doping and its related policies is a relatively new research area, much of the studies are based in western contexts. Little is known about how non-USA/Europe countries – such as China – have implemented anti-doping policies and are compliant with the world anti-doping ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... 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 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 ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... Collectively, this range of articles has helped broaden our understanding of policy and governance as contemporary paradigms for sport management research. Relevant to the topic of sport policy, Attali and Bazoge’s (2021) historical analysis of French public policies relevant to girls’ access to sport published since 1945 is a useful piece, demonstrating that policy has evolved to adapt to social changes and economic needs, and is influenced by the change of political ideology in decision making. Thus, ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... Papers Reviewed In an incisive exploration of policy implementation and the topic of inclusivity, Christiaens and Brittain (2021) employ a qualitative, multi-case study methodology, aiming to unpack the intricate challenges of implementing inclusion policies for disabled people in the UK amongst non-disabled voluntary community sports clubs. The study reveals that perceptions of ableism significantly influence how inclusion is conceptualised and implemented across various sports clubs and organisations....
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management*
... Policy and Politics, 14(4), 587-603, https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2021.1947346 Adopting discourse analysis and Bacchi’s (2009) What’s the problem represented to be? (WPR) theoretical framework, the authors examine Sport for Development (SFD) policies aimed at Indigenous Australians. Their aim, to uncover the motivations for policy and the discourses influencing policy are explored from this critical lens to uncovering the unquestioned assumptions that underpin problem representation and policy ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
Introduction Nine papers are included in this review. Seven papers have been organised under a heading of equalities. Two papers examine the ongoing problematic of racial discrimination. One article studies LGBT+ inclusion policies in Australian cricket and two further papers investigate the inclusion of transgender athletes in sport in the context of US state legislative interventions. Two papers focus on New Zealand sport equalities policy. The first article provides ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... a high standard in previous editions. Nine papers are included in this review. Six papers have been organised under a heading of equalities, with two papers each examining race relations and gender discrimination. One article studies LGBT+ inclusion policies and further paper investigates the inclusion of athletes with Differences in Sexual Development (DSD) in sport. Outside of equalities, one paper examines the ways in which sports mega events can promote human rights and further articles advance ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... 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 perceptions of sport leaders in the Australia and New Zealand contexts (Hammond, 2022; Turconi et al., 2022). Hammond (2022) focused on inclusion policies related to those with a disability on Australian swim teams, with a specific focus ...
Sport Leadership
... 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 perceptions of sport leaders in the Australia and New Zealand contexts (Hammond, 2022; Turconi et al., 2022). Hammond (2022) focused on inclusion policies related to those with a disability on Australian swim teams, with a specific focus ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... discussions surrounding athlete mental health. Others condemned her action, suggesting she quit on the biggest sporting stage. An intersectional Foucauldian analysis of Canadian national sport organisations’ ‘equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) policies and the reinscribing of injustice (Peers et al., 2023) Equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) policies have become increasingly important in national sports organisations. In Canada, these organisations have increasingly been incentivised to ...
Sport Leadership
... Moreover, beyond the traditionally central and dominant sporting organisations, the findings indicated that sport organisations from varying sectors (e.g., non-profit, private) can also play an instrumental role in the development and approval of sport policies. The formation of sports coalitions also provides a fascinating context for leadership research focused on the individual level. For example, investigating individual influence within these coalitions, and concepts such as emergent and shared ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
1. Introduction With this first review, I believe it is important to clarify the meaning of the term’s ethics and sport integrity and thus outline the scope of the category. In the broader literature, the meaning and distinction of the term’s 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...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... self-evaluation methods. The authors utilised web-based data collection and research tours and employed a deductive content analysis. The results showed resources available to high-performance athletes whilst also identifying service gaps, necessitating policies to support a broader range of athletes. Due to that, the authors advocated for expanding services and ensuring equitable access to resources for athletes at varying performance levels. 5. Mamo, Y. Z., & Anagnostopoulos, C. (2023). Stakeholders' ...
State of Sport Management Research in the second half of 2023 (July - December): An Overview
The current issue of the Sport Management Digest (SMD) provides a bibliometric review of the research published in the 10-sport management journals in the second half of 2023 – from July to December. The six thematic sections that follow cover in sufficient detail research pertinent to different aspects of sport management. Owing to technical reasons we were unable to include a review of sport management theoretical developments and ethics research, which will be made available as soon as possible...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
.... The author takes on the daunting task of presenting a conceptual framework of an NSIS that can be operationalised in different countries and across many cultures. She defines an NSIS as “an intentionally designed set of operational institutions, policies, practices, agencies, and actors responsible for promoting and safeguarding the integrity of an NSO” (p. 32). Focusing on the need for coherence and integrated systems that allow for multiple points of accountability, she argues that “NSOs ...
State of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2023 (January - July)
This introductory article of the Sport Management Digest (SMD) provides a bibliometric review of the research published in the 10-sport management journals in the first half of 2023 – from January to July. The eight thematic sections that follow cover in sufficient detail research pertinent to different aspects of sport management. As promised, the current issue includes a theoretical section, but due to technical reasons we were unable to include the review of sport communication research, which...
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management
Exactly hundred and ten years ago, Frederick Winslow Taylor published his influential book, The Principles of Scientific Management (New York: Harper, 1911), which has legitimised management as a scientific discipline. Taylor’s main concern was the notion of efficiency as applied to organisations. But Taylor’s writing was profoundly influenced by the science of physics and it is somehow astonishing to think that the main intellectual impetus behind the birth of the science of management came from...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
Introduction This section presents a summary of the ten sport journals from the previous three volumes of Sport Management Digest. The papers were published between July 2022 and February 2023. Table 1 summarises the methodological approaches used in the respective journals: Table 1: Summary of Methodological Approaches Journals Mixed Qualitative Quantitative Total Communication & Sport 4 30 (incl. four editorials) 9 43 European Sport Management Quarterly 2 8 (incl. one editorial) 10 20 International...
State of Sport Management Research in the second half of 2022 (July-December)
This introductory article of the Sport Management Digest (SMD) provides a bibliometric review of the research published in the 10-sport management journals in the second half of 2022 – from July to December. The eight thematic sections that follow cover in sufficient detail research pertinent to different aspects of sport management. Due to a change of editor of the theoretical section, the current issue does not include a review of theories used in sport management research. Nonetheless, the next...
Sport Economics
... 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 clubs increases the demand for a sport (see Fort and Maxcy 2003)....
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... differentiated impact of football events, from ‘local events’ to ‘mega-events’, on the process of institutionalisation of women’s football in England, Germany, the USA and France. More precisely, the articulation of three factors – namely the sports policies developed by institutions, the media, and (mega)events –weigh on the process of institutionalisation of women’s football. . The authors argued that the success of women’s football in England, Germany and the United States is because since ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... understanding of the causes of corruption was to map the specific cultural and relational organizational structures that demonstrate unique types of sports match-fixing, which administrators and academics must consider in devising counter-corruption policies. Second, Lawson’s (2021) synthetic control method to analyze the impact of severe sanctions in the context of college athletics while was methodologically interesting nonetheless the study was atheoretical and thus was limited in its contribution....
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... reflect a bias towards those users who want their opinions heard. Another problem is that some social media companies do not transparently release information about their platforms content, as they make decisions about their rules, functionality and policies based on commercial imperatives, such as the presence of advertisements and click-throughs. Issues of privacy and ethics have also not been as fully reconciled for social media methods as they have for its traditional, analogue counterpart. Hall ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
1. Introduction This section provides a summary of the ten sport journals consistent with the previous two volumes of Sport Management Digest. The papers were published between January and June 2022. Table 1 summarises the methodological approaches used in the respective journals: Table 1: Summary of Methodological Approaches Journals Mixed Qualitative Quantitative Total Communication & Sport - 17 (incl. three editorial essays) 12 29 European Sport Management Quarterly (excl. one Introduction)...
Sport Leadership
... 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 describe power as often being shaped by policies and problems within the organisation. Their findings indicate the main areas of conflict between coaches and administrators to be clarity of rules and decision-making, disconnected agendas, allocation of resources, and distancing the coach in ...
State of Sport Management Research in 2021: An Overview
The aim of this introductory article of the Sport Management Digest (SMD) is to provide an overview of the research published in the ten specialised journals during 2021. Individual sections of the SMD cover in sufficient detail the main topics and key findings of different subject areas. Even a cursory view of the published works suggests that sport management scholarship has been growing in scope, geography and appeal. The present overview of research in the field focuses on three interrelated...
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
Introduction All papers considered in this section of the digest come from the issues dated in the second half of 2023 and were published in the pre-selected journals. Of these journals, two are exclusively dedicated to sport economics related research, the Journal of Sports Economics (JSE), which is the official Journal of the North American Association of Sports Economists (NAASE) and the International Journal of Sport Finance (IJSF), which is the official journal of the European Sport Economics...
State of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2022 (January-June): An Overview
The Sport Management Digest (SMD) is a new type of publication design to provide a high-level synthesis of research in the field published in 10 established sport management journals. It is published biannually in March and September. Therefore, the SMD should not be perceived as a competitor to the existing journals rather as a complementary publication freely available to the global sport management community. The aim of this introductory article of the SMD is to provide an overview of the research...
Sport Communication
... a "legitimate controversy." The analysis reveals a notable absence of Hubbard's personal perspective, with a preference for "authoritative" sources that challenge her participation and the relevant International Olympic Committee policies. The authors contend that such media approach encourages divisive debates over more nuanced discussions, highlighting journalists' significant influence in shaping public discourse around the inclusivity of sport spaces. The findings underscore ...
Geography of Sport Management Research in 2022
... most common topics examined were diversity, gender, and equality, followed by membership-related and management/policy-related issues (e.g., strategic management, innovation, and communication). Elite sport: the 23 articles in this domain addressed policies or issues related to doping, youth sport, disability, gender, athlete dual-career, naturalised athletes, national sport success, and sport performance. Community sport/SFD: this domain consists of two categories. The first category includes ...
Sport Management Communications
Introduction The sport management research community has published over 45 sport communication (and related) articles in the field’s various journals since the third issue of SMD (October 2022 to February 2023). Over this period, a few sport communication research works have been published in journals such as Journal of Sport Management, Sport Management Review, European Sport Management Quarterly, International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship, Journal of Global Sport Management, and...
Geography of sport management research
Introduction Sport management (SM) research does not occur in vacuum but in the context of a specific sport domain (e.g., 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...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
In total 15 articles are identified for the section of sport marketing and sponsorship with eight of them devoted to the theme of sport sponsorship, and the rest to other sport marketing topics. A breakdown of themes and topics can be found in Table 1. Written by 44 authors from 32 institutions in 13 countries, these articles come from five journals with 7 from IJSMS, 3 from SMR, 2 each from JSM and ESMQ, and one from JGSM. In this section of the Sport Management Digest, an overview of these publications...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
In total 15 articles are identified for the section of sport marketing and sponsorship with eight of them devoted to the theme of sport sponsorship, and the rest to other sport marketing topics. A breakdown of themes and topics can be found in Table 1. Written by 44 authors from 32 institutions in 13 countries, these articles come from five journals with 7 from IJSMS, 3 from SMR, 2 each from JSM and ESMQ, and one from JGSM. In this section of the Sport Management Digest, an overview of these publications...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... Fechner, Filo, Reid & Cameron 1 Total 48 Note: * refers to articles reviewed in detail. Beginning July 1, 2021, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) student-athletes across the US obtained the right, through state laws and institutional policies, to profit from the commercial use of their name, image, and likeness (“NIL”). This historical NIL rule heralded a new era of collegiate athletes marketability in the States, changing the landscape of NCAA sports business forever. It is ...
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
Introduction All papers considered in this section of the digest come from the issues dated in the first half of 2023 and were published in the pre-selected journals. Of these journals, two are exclusively dedicated to sport economics related research, the Journal of Sports Economics (JSE), which is the official Journal of the North American Association of Sports Economists (NAASE) and the International Journal of Sport Finance (IJSF), which is the official journal of the European Sport Economics...
Sport Economics
1. Introduction All papers considered in this section of the digest come from published issues of overall ten pre-selected journals. Out of these ten journals, two are exclusively dedicated to sport economics related research, i.e., the Journal of Sports Economics (JSE), which is the official Journal of the North American Association of Sports Economists (NAASE) and the International Journal of Sport Finance (IJSF), which is the official journal of the European Sport Economics Association (ESEA)...
Sport Economics
Introduction All papers considered in this section of the digest come from published issues in the first six months of 2022 from the ten pre-selected journals. Of these ten journals, two are exclusively dedicated to sport economics related research, the Journal of Sports Economics (JSE), which is the official Journal of the North American Association of Sports Economists (NAASE) and the International Journal of Sport Finance (IJSF), which is the official journal of the European Sport Economics Association...