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Theoretical Developments in Sport Management*
1. Introduction In the first review of this section of the Digest, Dr. Girginov provided a thorough review of theoretical developments in the field of sport management. Leaving aside the debate of whether sport management requires its own theory(ies), what we have seen develop in this still nascent field is a diverse area of theoretical applications with sociological, psychological,...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... perceived fan participation by conducting 33 in-depth interviews with fans of different German Bundesliga football clubs. He reached out to potential interview participants through fan liaison officers and personal contacts. For the interviews, he has developed a rough interview guide that explored three different topics: 1) Fan participation and their experience, 2) Antecedents of fan participation, and lastly 3) Consequences of fan participation. Uhrich stopped conducting interviews when theoretical ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... resources beyond the sponsorship contract, which include management competencies, technical competencies, networking skills, innovative ideas, and products and services. Extractives Companies’ Social Media Portrayals of Their Funding of Sport for Development in Indigenous Communities in Canada and Australia This paper was published in the journal of Communication & Sport by Latino and colleagues and explored how the extractive industry (mining, quarring, oil, and gas) leverages CSR activites, ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... 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 development of policy and/or governance disciplines, comparing to other sport policy/governance-related studies published in the ten journals reviewed. Studies merely mentioning their implications to policy learning without any further theoretical elaborations,...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... 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 the study of event manipulation and anti-doping policies in new countries and contexts. In ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... five articles produced by a group of scholars from North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. These articles are selected for the second issue because of their relatively strong theoretical contribution to, or the conceptual advances made for, the development of policy and/or governance disciplines, compared to other sport policy/governance-related studies published in the nine journals. Research, addressing policy/governance concerns in passing, is not included in this review. In addition, articles ...
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management
... number of scientific disciplines. As a result, significant advances have been made in our understanding of how organisations are structured, governed and change over time as well as how people working in those organisations are motivated, managed and developed. One of the comprehensive attempts to capture the variety of theoretical perspectives that inform research in sport management has been the Routledge Handbook of Theory in Sport Management edited by Cunningham, Fink and Doherty (2015). The editors ...
Sport Leadership
... study from both the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics (IJSPP) and the International Journal of Sport Communication (IJSC). The first article from ESMQ is entitled “Exploring the coach–administrator relationship within the SA cricket development environment” and was written by Cedric English (Edinburgh Napier University), Christine Nash (University of Edinburgh), and Russell Martindale (Edinburgh Napier University). The title of the second ESMQ article is “Moral disengagement ...
Sport Leadership
... sport-for-development (SFD) context. While their previous work examined the benefits of shared leadership in the SFD space (Kang & Svensson, 2023b), their more recent work honed in on identifying the antecedents of shared leadership around the sport for development and peace (SDP). They accomplished this work through 30 semi-structured qualitative interviews involving personnel from two SDP collaboratives under a larger SDP umbrella foundation, the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. Through an inductive ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... different tasks and rely on different power bases. An Ethnography of Basketball as a Communicative Act of Resilience In his research published in the International Journal of Sport Communication, 15(2), Higgins explored resilience as a characteristic developed through basketball and its culture. His main goal was to better understand 1) What communication processes can be extracted from the way basketball participants express resilience and 2) How the basketball culture can serve as a site for resilience,...
Sport Governance and Policy
... systematic review of governance principles in sport, European Sport Management Quarterly, 23:6, 1863-1888, DOI: 10.1080/16184742.2022.2077795 Ralph Ramos, Veerle De Bosscher, Aurélie Pankowiak & Christian Wisdom Valleser (2023) Contexts shaping the development and success of elite sport systems: a scoping review, Sport Management Review, 26:5, 649-676, DOI: 10.1080/14413523.2023.2171276 Erfan Moradi, Sajad Gholampour & Behzad Gholampour (2023) Past, present and future of sport policy: a bibliometric ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... 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 of articles featured one ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... cultural factors, including changing attitudes towards disability, advancements in sports technology, and the growing recognition of the value of sport for people with disabilities. Adopting a welcome historical analysis, McBean et al (2022) chart the development of disability sport policy through several chronological stages. In the 1970s and 1980s a growing awareness of the importance of sport for people with disabilities led to the development of new sports programmes as well as the establishment ...
Sport Leadership
... used an interpretative qualitative design to explore occupational turnover among former US National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Division I swim coaches. The final article in the current collection used various quantitative techniques to develop a scale aimed to measure shared leadership in the youth sport context in the Netherlands (van Dalfsen et al. 2023). While the current articles skew mostly as qualitative in nature, the cultural contexts that were examined offer a broad array around ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... and board governance, and the policy and political dynamics between national and local policy actors. These articles are selected for the issue because of their relatively strong theoretical contribution to, or the conceptual advances made for, the development of policy and/or governance disciplines. Research, addressing policy/governance concerns in passing, is not included. All the six articles conducted theoretically grounded investigations and five of the six articles were supported by empirical ...
Sport Governance and Policy
Sport Governance and Policy Dr Shushu Chen Introduction The field of sport governance and policy has seen some important development, particularly in response to the increasing complexity of multi-level governance frameworks, the need for inclusivity, and the demand for more efficient management practices. This section brings together eight academic articles that each offer ...
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
... markets. In this case the option is that the consumer purchasing an event ticket has the option to resell that ticket at fair market value rather than be limited to the “face value” of the ticket. This options practice has become more common with the development of the secondary ticket resale market. The more flexible pricing option for buyers increases the value of tickets at the primary sale and gives the primary buyer a more valuable asset if they choose a secondary sale. The empirical results ...
Sport Economics
... Economics. It is focused on the effects of stadiums and teams on local business activities and employment figures. More precisely, the authors test the popular claim, that the entry of new teams and the building of new stadiums may lead to economic (re-)development in the area. The data used come from the Census Bureau and measures annual establishment and employment changes between 2004 and 2012 at the level of Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) and Micropolitan Statistical Areas (MiSA) in the U.S....
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... Danish-based organization that promotes democracy, transparency and freedom of expression in sport, has recently published an experts’ report that calls for a global sports integrity body 1 . Underlining the difficulties that might be posed in respect of the development and implementation of such a body, an important intervention by Kihl (2023) in Sport Management Review foregrounds the complexities of designing national sports integrity systems (NSIS) where there are so many differences in the way sports ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... 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 et al. (2016) pointed out from a legal standpoint that while developing, the issue is complicated by international legal boundaries. Sport management researchers face the problem of securing informed consent from participants. This may be impossible given the number of social media users and the challenges of contacting ...
Geography of sport management research
... domains of study within sport. Professional sport topped the list, accounting for 37% of the studies; sport events (including sporting mega-events, major sporting events, and mass participatory sport events) accounted for 18%; community sport or sport for development programs accounted for 9%; and collegiate athletics, sport consumers/participants/sponsorship, and sport organizations (national and international organizations) accounted for 7% each. Notably, while 4% of the studies (6 out of 149) addressed ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... practical solutions to address these imbalances. The authors deployed a qualitative research design and collected data from the Regional Anti-Doping Programme (RADO). The RADO programme was introduced to provide training and operational support for developing National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs) to ensure that anti-doping policy is correctly implemented and assist NADO members in reaching sustainable self-governance. In total, 22 individuals voluntarily participated in a semi-structured interview: ...
Sport Leadership
... may become more prevalent during significant times of change in elite British sport organizations. Based in Australia, Whales et al. (2022) investigated relational leadership in a professional sport organization as it pertained to leadership practice, development, and collective leadership performance. Breuer et al. (2022) conducted a German-based study, which aimed to determine factors that influence coaches’ intention for further training at both the individual and organizational levels. Misener ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... identification and loyalty, and thus can be used as a tool to influence fan behavior. Of the two articles under the sub theme of ‘city marketing through sport’. Book and Eden’s (2021) study seeks to examine how community sports can be integrated into the development and marketing of a city, by using skateboarding in Swedish Malmo as an in-depth case study. It is noteworthy that, by using a communicative co-constructed method inspired by co-constructed auto-ethnography and para-ethnography, the co-authors ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... identification and loyalty, and thus can be used as a tool to influence fan behavior. Of the two articles under the sub theme of ‘city marketing through sport’. Book and Eden’s (2021) study seeks to examine how community sports can be integrated into the development and marketing of a city, by using skateboarding in Swedish Malmo as an in-depth case study. It is noteworthy that, by using a communicative co-constructed method inspired by co-constructed auto-ethnography and para-ethnography, the co-authors ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... prices turned out to be short-lived, if anything. It was suggested that the initial impact might have been amplified by the heightened public attention to corporate behavior during the crisis, but long-term effects might have been mitigated by the rapid development of the pandemic that distracted public attention. The authors also held that the discrepancy between the customer perceptions and behaviors might be due to a number of factors such as product attributes (i.e., superior quality), past consumption ...
Sport Communication
... counterparts, (d) professional players’ symbolic action has a profound power to regenerate issues of social justice such as regarding a national anthem that ignored the historical and contemporary significance of its people, (e) the importance of developing consistent and comprehensive communication strategies by sport organizations to maximize a positive synergy between an organization’s different approaches to crisis communication, which otherwise would be counterproductive as the approaches ...
Sport Economics
... analysis and psychology also underlies this research. There are likely to be behavioral effects influencing an athlete’s willingness to supply effort that are not fully addressed in the early shirking literature. New perspectives on performance have developed in recent years with the influence 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. ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... Hassan, and Kitchin (2023) examined the factors that either facilitated or hindered the effective scaling of programme success to a broader context, focusing on the intersections between policy, community, and individual elements relevant to Sport for Development and Peace (SfD&P) in Northern Ireland. The research identifies a three-tiered pathway in the sporting sector that expands from traditional sport development to inclusive sports and then to SfD&P. It finds that unclear structures and a task-oriented ...
Geography of sport management research in 2022
... sectors of the population’ (NASSM, n.d.). Sport, an integral part of people’s lives, is staged and played in various forms ranging from professional sport, collegiate sport, and the numerous types of sport events to community sports and sport for development (SFD) programmes. Some of these are consumed via various media outlets. As such, the value of sport in society is co-constructed by its product or service providers (e.g. sport organisations and broadcasters) and consumers (e.g. participants ...
Geography of Sport Management Research in 2022
... domain of professional sport accounted for the largest share (37%), followed by sport events (16%), and sport consumers (11%). Collegiate athletics, sport organizations, and elite sport each accounted for 7% of these articles. Community sport/Sport for Development (SFD), sport media, sport industry, and other sport domains accounted for 6%, 5%, 3% and 1% respectively (see Figure 1). Figure 1. The distribution of sport research domains Summaries of the topics covered by articles in each domain are provided ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... were national policies, acts, or frameworks (e.g., Canadian Sport Policy 2012) and 134 were organisation-specific policies (e.g., Judo Canada – Gender Equity Policy). The authors deployed a Foucauldian discourse analysis involving analytical tools developed throughout Foucault’s various archaeologies and genealogies to analyse the documents. They first identified every equity-related statement within each of the 143 policy documents through Foucault’s subject-knowledge-power analytic triangle,...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... leaders in this study, Hammond (2022) dove into exploring a different aspect of D&I from Turconi et al. (2022), with a focus on disability inclusion. Hammond noted that part of the impetus for this study stemmed from the Australian Government’s work to develop more inclusive sport for people with disabilities. This offers a unique cultural contribution as specific legislation; the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) prohibits coaches from discriminating against those with disability. Hammond (2022) ...
Sport Leadership
... leaders in this study, Hammond (2022) dove into exploring a different aspect of D&I from Turconi et al. (2022), with a focus on disability inclusion. Hammond noted that part of the impetus for this study stemmed from the Australian Government’s work to develop more inclusive sport for people with disabilities. This offers a unique cultural contribution as specific legislation; the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) prohibits coaches from discriminating against those with disability. Hammond (2022) ...
Sport Leadership
... research would benefit from a deeper understanding of the characteristics, differences, and relationships between management, leadership, and coaching in this (and other) context(s). For example, on one hand, it could be that coaching refers to skill development or tactical guidance given to players. On the other hand, it could be that coaching actually encompasses a much broader space which includes both management and leadership functions. Additional inquiry in this area is needed to yield insight ...
State of Sport Management Research in the second half of 2022 (July-December)
... the word indicates its weight. Figure 2 also helps to see the distance between two words where the higher the distance the lesser the connectedness. For example, the word ‘effect’ dominated in the research published, followed by ‘athlete’, ‘development’ and ‘fan’. As can be seen, the word ‘athlete’ is closely connected to ‘coach’, ‘care’ and a social medium – ‘instagram’. The word ‘effect’ is linked to ‘attitudes’, ‘behaviour’ and ‘sponsors’. ‘Development’,...
The Geography of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2024
... in general), sport events (including all types such as mega-events, major-events, and mass participant sport events), sport organizations (including non-profit sport clubs, national and international sport organizations), community sport / sport for development (SFD), elite sport (also competitive sport), sport industry (also commercial sport), sport consumers (including spectators, participants, and consumers of general nature), sport media (referring to thecommunity sport/sport for development ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... Management, 8(2), 524–549. https://doi.org/10.1080/24704067.2020.1846906 Huettermann, Trail, Pizzo, and Stallone (2023) explore the effectiveness of sponsorships by non-endemic organizations within the Esports domain. By adopting a sports sponsorship model developed by Biscaia et al. to the context of Esports, the researchers aim to evaluate the relationships between Motivation for Sport Consumption and Purchase Intention to Sponsor Products. Through empirical examination of 382 participants, the study ...
Sport Communication
... content creation, the influence of media on sport, fan culture, and ethical concerns around doping and politics in sport. The latest issue (Issue #5) covered how sport and media construct cultural and national identities across different regions. Current developments in sport communication Continuing the trend, the sport management research community actively contributed to the field of sport communication from September 2023 to March 2024 (Issue #6), with the publication of over 51 articles across various ...
Sport Management Communications
... paralympic broadcasting in sub-Saharan Africa, the National Basketball Association, China, and attribution of responsibility, Twitter users’ reaction to Donald Trump and Megan Rapinoe, and companies’ social media portrayals of their funding of sport for development in indigenous communities in Canada and Australia. - Sport media and doping: news framing of doping suspicion during the Tour de France, and Chinese public perception of Sun Yang’s 8-year doping sanction. - Occupation and the work environment: ...
State of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2023 (January - July)
....com/loi/rgsm20 2016 4 N/A 31 4/0 The 10 journals under review continued publishing special issues, which are designed to address important themes as well to break new grounds in the field. Sport management journals’ special issues have a positive impact on developing the field (Scelles, 2021). Three journals have published special issues addressing environmental matters in sport (ESMQ), diversity, equity and inclusion (IJSMS), and a critical examination of sport communication scholarship (IJSC). Individually ...
State of Sport Management Research in the second half of 2023 (July - December): An Overview
... 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. Bibliometric analysis is an established computer-assisted quantitative review methodology, which identifies core research or authors, as well as their relationship. It ...
State of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2024: An overview
... sections that follow, cover in sufficient detail research pertinent to different aspects of sport management. Owing to some editors stepping down and the time needed to replace them, we were unable to include a review of sport management theoretical developments, ethics research, leadership and communications which will be made available as soon as possible. Bibliometric analysis is the main tool used in science mapping, which allows to reveal the social, intellectual and organisational structure ...
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
... win (Coates & Humphreys, 2010). A possible explanation for this phenomenon is that fans are more willing to attend games with certain game outcomes, that is, when the home team is deemed to be the winner (Sung & Mills, 2018). Humphreys and Zhou (2015) developed a model to identify fan preferences, including the baseline utility from attending games, utility from a home team win, preference for uncertain outcomes, and loss aversion. Their model indicates that consumer preferences for uncertain outcomes ...
State of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2022 (January-June): An Overview
... Sponsorship 23 (20), ‘Sport Management Using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM)’, guess edited by Cepeda-Carrión, Hair, Ringle, Roldán & García-Fernández, and Journal of Global Sport Management 7 (2) ‘Managing Sport for Development and Peace’ guess edited by Giulianotti, Collison & Hognestad. Journals’ special issues have the power to focus attention on specific topics and to explore them more holistically and systematically. Scelles (2020) analysed 180 special issues ...
The Geography of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2023
... in general), sport events (including all types such as mega-events, major-events, and mass participant sport events), sport organizations (including non-profit sport clubs, national and international sport organizations), community sport / sport for development (SFD), elite sport (also competitive sport), sport industry (also commercial sport), sport consumers (including spectators, participants, and consumers of general nature), sport media (mainly the sport media sector), and others. The domains ...
The Geography of Sport Management Research in 2023
... sport in general), sport events (including all types such as mega-events, major-events, and mass participant sport events), sport organizations (including non-profit sport clubs, national and international sport organizations), community sport/sport for development (SFD), elite sport (also competitive sport), sport industry (also commercial sport), sport consumers (including spectators, participants, and consumers of a general nature), sport media (mainly the sport media sector), and others. Among the ...
Sport Management Communications
... esports fans’ basic psychological needs and pertinent behaviors. Guided by self-determination theory (SDT), which (according to the authors) considers fulfillment of innate psychological needs as the theoretical grounds for human motivation, the study developed seven different hypotheses. To accomplish the research objective, the author employed a cross-sectional nonexperimental design. Using an online survey distributed on Reddit for 10 days, data was collected from a convenience sample of adults ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... niche area for this issue. Accordingly, five articles on this topic area have been selected and reviewed in detail. Table 1. Selected Publication in Sport Marketing and Sponsorship Areas Topics Author(s) Quantity Sport marketing (34) League product development Fujak, Ewing, Newton & Altschwager 1 Digital marketing Stegmann, Nagel & Ströbel 1 Consumer behavior Yoshida, Sato, Pizzo & Kuramasu Papadimitriou, Apostolopoulou & Patrick Temerak & Winklhofer Hussain & Cunningham Chang, Lim, Kim & Oh Pedragosa,...
Sport Communication
... media frames and framing techniques practiced by media outlets (e.g., The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Sun, Daily Mail, etc.) to identify any trends and patterns of reporting on disability. The authors focused on one of the main discourses that has developed since the early 2000s – supercrip. The “supercrip” narrative is the narrative of para-athletes overcoming the odds and achieving athletic excellence. Researchers have debated the merits and demerits of the “supercrip” narrative. The ...