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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...
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 Governance and Policy
1. Introduction Across the ten journals reviewed, the number of selected articles relevant to the topic of sport governance and policy is relatively high, in comparison with other topic sections in the Digest. There are in total nine articles showcased here that are produced by twenty scholars from North America, Europe, Asia, Arica, and Australia. The nine articles are selected for the Digest because of their relatively strong theoretical contribution to, or the conceptual advances made for, the...
Sport Communication
1. Introduction The sport management research community has published over 55 sport communication (and related) articles in the field’s various journals over the past seven months of 2021. During this period, a few sport communication research works have been published in journals such as the Journal of Sport Management, Sport Management Review, International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship, European Sport Management Quarterly, Journal of Global Sport Management, and others. Two journals...
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 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...
Sport Leadership
1. Introduction This first edition of the Sport Leadership section for Sport Management Digest will cover a total of eight studies published in the first half of 2021 in four different journals. This list includes three articles from Sport Management Review (SMR), two from the Journal of Sport Management (JSM), two from the Journal of Sport Policy and Politics (JSPP), and one study from European Sport Management Quarterly (ESMQ). The first article from SMR is entitled “Volunteer selection at a major...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
1. Introduction All papers considered in this section of the SMD are from published issues of the pre-selected journals. Table 1 provides a summary of the methodological approaches used across each journal for this time period. Table 1: Summary of the Methodological Approaches Journals Mixed Qualitative Quantitative Total Communication & Sport 1 16 3 20 Communication & Sport - Invited Article 1 2 3 European Sport Management Quarterly 2 6 7 15 International Journal of Sport Finance 8 8 International...