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Sport Leadership
... “Gendering of recruitment and selection processes to boards in Polish sports federations,” written by Natalia Organista (Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education). Finally, the last article covered in this section is from ESMQ and is entitled “Innovation in national governing bodies of sport: investigating dynamic capabilities that drive growth,” written by Spencer Harris, Matthew Metzger, and Thomas Duening (all from University of Colorado, Colorado Springs). Collectively, these studies ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... Schulenkorf, Schlenker, Frawley and Cohen employed a qualitative case study approach to investigate the nature of design thinking alignment between the practice of a sport organization and the themes of design thinking practices. As research in sport innovation management continues to evolve as a coherent body of research (Ratten, 2016), it is agrued that sport practitioners and researchers alike are ever on the lookout for ways of enhancing innovation in the sport context (Funk, 2019). In proposing ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... sports marketing, and the rest to sports sponsorship-related topics. A breakdown of them regarding themes and topics can be found in table 1 below, and consumer behaviour related topics are the most dominant focus areas of study. In addition, technology innovation, human brand and Covid are also prominently featured. Next, five articles will be reviewed in more detail. Themes Topics Authors No Sports marketing Consumer behavior and technology Uhrich* Jang, Kim, Chang & Kim Lee & Kim Cheng, Huang & Lai ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... a total of three iterative rounds. The authors’ findings indicated that multiple sponsors as well as the sponsee integrate 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 ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... gender-related issues (e.g., the recruitment and selection process for board members in sports federations, and policy design for girls’ practice of sport), football policy (implementation and integration), boards roles in football clubs, leadership innovation, and national level governance convergence. Although this range of topics is not new, the focused contexts are somewhat different, or researchers have examined their cases through different theoretical lenses, and hence they facilitate a contextual ...
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management*
... theory—the consideration of an employee’s psychological state in terms of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral engagement dimensions provided the foundation to examine the relationship between employee engagement motivation, turnover intention, innovative work behaviour, and nonprofit performance for SFD workers in the United States. An electronic survey was sent to over 1,000 employees in various national agencies in the SFD field. A response rate of 18% or 199 completed surveys indicated that ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... Ewing, M. T., Newton, J., & Altschwager, T. (2023). Professional athlete responses to new product development: A dialectic. European sport management quarterly, 1-22. In this article, the authors examined athletes’ perceptions of a new sport product innovation, which has significantly impacted their profession. They further explored athletes’ demands, opportunities, and tensions arising from this product. The authors highlighted the need to provide athletes with a voice and to put them at the centre ...
State of Sport Management Research in the second half of 2022 (July-December)
... grounds in the field. The positive impact of journals’ special issues in sport management and sociology was analysed by Scelles (2021) and discussed in the previous issue. Four journals have published special issues which range from conceptual (ESMQ) to innovation (IJSMS), specific sport (i.e., football, JGSM), sport events cultures (C&S), and tracing the evolution of a discipline (i.e., sport economics, JSE). Table 2 shows the journals, special issues and guess editors. Table 2. Special issues published ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... close to me. Forsdike, K., & Fullagar, S. (2021). ‘Addressing the Complexity of Violence Against Women in Sport: Using the World Café Method to Inform Organizational Response’. Journal of Sport Management, 36(5), 473-487. The authors deploy an innovative method of World Café technique to gather data on the persistent problem of violence against women in Australian community sport. The procedure involves gathering participants drawn from a diverse range of perspectives into an informal group ...
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management
... (institutional change, institutional entrepreneurship) Agency theory and principal–agent alignment Agency theory Effects of race on coaches’ lateral moves Homologous reproduction theory Hybrid management work in elite sport Relational sociology Innovation in national governing bodies of sport Organisational theory (dynamic capabilities) Gendering of recruitment and selection processes to boards Organizational logic and inequality regimes Organizational logic and inequality regimes Corporate ...
State of Sport Management Research in 2021: An Overview
... theoretical and practical appeal, as measured by the funding received by different studies, and the democratization of knowledge, as exemplified by the number of studies published under the Open Access (OA) regime. The second issue of the SMD includes an innovation in the form of an analysis of the geography of sport management research. This is an important aspect of the research conducted in the field because it provides a temporal map of the geographical distribution of sport management studies as ...
Sport Communication
... of topics, including brand communities, dynamic content research, relationship marketing, brand management, consumer behavior, and the impact of social media on athlete welfare and legal issues. Each scholarly commentary presented fresh perspectives, innovative methodologies, and critical insights. This issue did not only highlight gaps in the literature but also offered constructive discourse within the sport communication community, challenging prevailing theories and proposing new research directions....
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
... doors to private equity investment. In turn the value of investing in sports appears to be growing at record rates and the existing major sport leagues and organizations are the beneficiaries. Advanced finance from private equity investment in sports to innovative o pricing for sport tickets reflect some of the recent research in sport economics discussed in this report. The past two years have seen several blockbuster transactions for sports clubs and franchises, with sales price record seemingly broken ...
Sport Communication
... domain. The themes identified from the articles cover areas such as social media and athlete representation, media framing and sports journalism, digital and social media education in sports, fan behavior and online communities, impact of technology and innovation in sports, and sociocultural aspects and identity in sports. These studies collectively underscore the intertwining of sports, media, and culture, highlighting the transformative role of digital platforms in shaping public perceptions, athlete-fan ...
Geography of Sport Management Research in 2022
... mainly used non-profit sport clubs or national sport organizations as study settings. The 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 Economics
... 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. Included are performance under pressure in team ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... “traditional” type of sport leadership study, yet they did so with still emerging concepts in servant leadership and sport employee well-being. Collectively, these studies exemplify how sport leadership researchers continue move the discipline forward through innovative approaches. Each study contains valuable insights into an aspect or population of sport leaders and should serve as a foundation for further research endeavors. Annotated Bibliography Hammond, A. M. (2022) The relationship between disability ...
Sport Leadership
... “traditional” type of sport leadership study, yet they did so with still emerging concepts in servant leadership and sport employee well-being. Collectively, these studies exemplify how sport leadership researchers continue move the discipline forward through innovative approaches. Each study contains valuable insights into an aspect or population of sport leaders and should serve as a foundation for further research endeavors. Annotated Bibliography Hammond, A. M. (2022) The relationship between disability ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... employing social media follower statistics of the Belarus clubs and well as those participating in 48 first divisions under shutdown, as a proxy for league interest from fans, Weimar et al estimated the effects of the COVID impact. What is methodologically innovative about this paper is their use of cross-platform analysis (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube). Sport management social media research is only just emerging in popularity as a productive method. As a result, researchers have not yet fully ...