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Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
Introduction Six papers are included in this review. Two papers examine the ongoing issue of anti-doping in sport. One article discusses emerging proposals to establish Sports Integrity Agencies. Under the theme of equalities, one paper looks at homophobia in sport and a second paper examines racism in sport. A final article reviews the current state of academic knowledge in respect to online hate. In this review, two articles ...
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 ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... passing, is not included. All the six articles conducted theoretically grounded investigations and five of the six articles were supported by empirical data (apart from Kelly, Derrington and Star’s (2022) work where their primary aim was to propose an integrated policy process model). Supplemented by document analysis, qualitative approaches (interviews) were commonly used in studies relevant to sport governance and policy, with one exception [Wicker, Feiler and Breuer (2022) used survey data]. A broad ...
Sport Leadership
... 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 and sport integrity: identifying and mitigating integrity breaches in sport management” by Jonathan Robertson (Deakin University) and Bram Constandt (Ghent University). The first JSM article covered in this edition is called “Leading Culture Change in Public ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... soft power strategies and tactics, stadium development, 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 ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... perceived enjoyment and social interaction identified as the two strongest reasons for adoption of FEA, while distraction from the game and declining atmosphere representing the two most important reasons against adoption. This study extends literature by integrating both pro-adoption and anti-adoption factors into the technological innovation framework in sport marketing, and it also contributes to knowledge by considering sport consumers actual adoption behaviour, as well as adoption attitudes and usage ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... methodological designs provide a framework for rigourous investigation of the phenomena and reflects the methodological growth occurring in the discipline. Annotated Bibliography 1. Byun, J., Leopkey, B., & Ellis, D. (2022). Examining post-merger sociocultural integration in sport. European Sport Management Quarterly, 22(2), 205-226. The researchers explored post-merger sociocultural integration in sport organisation. They investigated the merger of elite and mass sport organisations in Korea through a qualitative ...
Sport 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 the athletes into educational curriculum opportunities beyond the classroom, such as through the university athletic department. Secondly, there were findings pointing to three main positive outcomes from the CGLP: fostering potential global ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... Analysis From identified journals, seven papers were selected for a more detailed discussion. Another seven papers were additionally reviewed and an annotated bibliography has been created at the end of this review. ‘Going the extra mile’ in resource integration: evolving a concept of sport sponsorship as an engagement platform In this paper, published in the European Sport Management Quarterly, the authors Buser and colleagues have deployed the Delphi Method to conceptualise sport sponsorship as ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... this review that were published in Communication & Sport, International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, Journal of Sport Management, and Journal of Global Sport Management. Three topics were examined under the umbrella topic of Ethics and Sport Integrity including corporate social responsibility (CSR), corruption, and racism. Fourteen different authors (one authored three different papers) from three different countries (Belgium, Portugal, and United States of America) and from seven affiliations ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
Introduction In my first piece as the new editor of the Sport Management Ethics and Integrity section, I would firstly like to thank my predecessor, Lisa Kihl, for setting such 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 ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... with strategies aimed to promote greater inclusion of people with disabilities in mainstream sport, as well as to develop specialised programmes for people with disabilities. In more recent years, the primary policy objective has been towards a more integrative approach and the establishment of the New Zealand Disability Sports Foundation to support disabled access in sport. Noting that practical implementation of policy rests with national sports organisations, the authors conclude that, despite ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... overarching goal was to contribute to a transition of a typical European urban district towards a culture of sustainability. The underlying methodology of the real-world lab is transdisciplinary, building on participatory, transformation-oriented research integrating numerous partners form civil society, city administration and also (disciplinary) sciences. Within the real-world lab, one of the projects was the “Real-world Lab 131” (Parodi et al., 2016) which included the development of sport and physical ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... for team 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,...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... for team 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,...
Sport Governance and Policy
..., reporting that policy learning occurred as a result of hosting the two Olympic Games; the two Games enhanced the state and sporting governing bodies’ policy making capability in the overall planning of the event hosting and legacy leveraging (by integrating the Games with other state priorities, rather than treating the event hosting as a stand-alone mission). In the context of sport governance, previous research has identified trust as a critical mechanism for cooperation in board governance ...
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
... Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios. Journal of Sport Management. 37 (1). 15-26. Abstract: Event portfolios are a useful way for destination managers to holistically manage their community’s collection of events and, through strategic integration and common objectives, more effectively produce benefits. However, regular sport events such as those played by professional sport teams in a sport league have received little attention from event portfolio managers and researchers. Understanding ...
Sport Leadership
... interviews to gain insights into the relationship between intra-board leadership at a national board level to the leadership capacity across a federal network (inter-board). Similar to the previously noted shared leadership, O’Boyle and colleagues integrated collective leadership in their framework. Collective leadership spawns from a social construction of leadership approach (Billsberry et al., 2018) while also spanning a multilevel process approach to leadership (Welty Peachey et al., 2015),...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... perception of disability and inclusion policy and the policy implementation on Australian swim teams. Through a qualitative study, he determined that coaches circumvented the policy when possible and only adhered to it on a superficial level. Suggestions for integrating coaching disability education again alongside the policy were proffered. Hayduk III, T. (2022) Are “tech-savvy” owners better for business? Evidence from Major League Baseball, Journal of Sport Management, 36(5), 559-574. https://doi....
Sport Leadership
... perception of disability and inclusion policy and the policy implementation on Australian swim teams. Through a qualitative study, he determined that coaches circumvented the policy when possible and only adhered to it on a superficial level. Suggestions for integrating coaching disability education again alongside the policy were proffered. Hayduk III, T. (2022) Are “tech-savvy” owners better for business? Evidence from Major League Baseball, Journal of Sport Management, 36(5), 559- 574. https://doi....
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... viewed as powerful in and of itself, but is given power as a result of how it is used, who uses it and the context within which this usage takes place (Wodak, 2001). As shown in this paper, discourses do not merely reflect social practices, but are integral to the constitution of power through these practices in order to achieve certain ends (Jager 2001). Crucial to this research was an understanding that language is not analysed out of context, but is situated within the specific context of social ...
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management
... idea and applied it to industrial organisations. Debates whether management, and sport management in particular, is a science continue to fill the pages of academic and popular journals. What is not disputed though is the fact that management is an integral scientific discipline. More recently, Mintzberg (2011) defined management as a combination of science (i.e., knowledge), art (i.e., vision) and craft (i.e., skills). Each of these three fundamental elements of management is the subject area of ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... clubs made to seize Esports opportunities, and the creation of new value sources. The implications emphasize the need for Esports managers to precisely define their strategic objectives, optimize resource allocation (including Esports players), and integrate Esports more cohesively into the core value chain of football clubs. This study contributes to a preliminary model for professional football clubs' engagement in the Esports domain. Huettermann, M., Trail, G. T., Pizzo, A. D., & Stallone, V....
The Geography of Sport Management Research in 2023
... specifically focuses on the 422 empirical articles. The coding protocol employed remains consistent with previous reports on the geography of SM research in past issues of the Sport Management Digest (SMD). Concluding observations are offered at the end, integrating insights gleaned from the 2022 analysis, given the ongoing nature of this examination. Geography of the SM research settings We examined the settings of SM research by concentrating on sport domains or specific sports. Geographic distributions ...
Sport Management Communications
... Facilitator: The Contrasting Influence of Paralympic and Olympic Content. International Journal of Sport Communication, 1(aop), 1-10. These three researchers, from University of Alabama and University of South Florida, argue that there is a lack of study that integrated the characteristics that are fairly permanent (trait empathy) to characteristics that are situation and fluid (state empathy) based on the level and nature of engagement with mediated content (presence). Based this argument, the authors attempted ...
Geography of sport management research in 2022
... the Society are concerned about the theoretical and applied aspects of management theory and practice specifically related to sport, exercise, dance, and play, as these fields are pursued by all 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 ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... prime example of how sport initiatives are increasingly being seen through the lens of public health, signalling a shift towards policies that bridge multiple societal goals. This convergence points to the necessity for policies that are holistic and integrated, though it also highlights the complexity of aligning various stakeholders and agendas towards unified outcomes. Another significant point is the persistent challenges in policy implementation across different governance levels, as evidenced ...
Sport Economics
... that three further papers, i.e. Chakravarti & Boronczyk (2021) as well as Ge & Humphreys (2021a; 2021b), which belong to the identified seven papers exploring the economic effects of sports are reviewed by Lisa Kihl in her section on Sport Ethics and Integrity. 3. Annotated bibliography Agha, N. & Rascher, D. (2021). Economic development effects of Major and Minor League teams and stadiums. Journal of Sports Economics, 22(3), 274–294. The authors, researchers at the University of San Francisco (CA,...