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Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... and Politics – 2 Critical Commentary 2 Journal of Global Sport Management 6 3 9 Journal of Sport Economics 25 25 Journal of Sport Management 2 8 10 20 Sport Management Review 17 8 25 Overall Total 8 80 88 182 Over this period numerous research designs, data collection, and analysis techniques have been employed successfully to provide new insights into areas of research. Table 2 captures the variety of research designs and analytic approaches used. Table 2: Quantitative and Qualitative ...
Geography of Sport Management Research in 2022
Introduction Building on the analysis of the 180 empirical articles published in the first half of 2022 in the 10 targeted journals, this essay examines the geography of empirical sport management (SM) research throughout 2022 or a total of 342 [1] . By using the same coding protocol for the analyses reported in the previous two Sport Management Digest issues, we first examine the distribution of the key components that form SM research settings (i....
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 ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... editorial) 21 36 Journal of Sport Economics - 8 (incl. one commentary and one response) 20 28 Journal of Sport Management - 18 9 27 Sport Management Review 4 14 12 30 Overall Total 15 148 125 288 Though the application of qualitative and quantitative research approaches is quite balanced, qualitative research articles have utilised more in this volume, as visualised in Figure 1: Figure 1: Distribution of Methodological Approaches Again, similar to the previous reviews, a mixed method design very ...
The Geography of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2023
Introduction The analysis on the geography of sport management (SM) research mainly concerns the settings in which SM research takes place and the geographical distribution of SM knowledge production. To allow such an analysis, we only include empirical studies grounded in specific contexts. There were 265 articles published ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... 8 8 International Journal of Sport Marketing and Sponsorship 1 6 25 32 International Journal of Sport Communication 4 6 10 International Journal of Sport Communication (two case studies, one industry interview, one scholarly commentary, one student research) 3 2 5 International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics 21 (incl. one critical commentary) 1 22 Journal of Global Sport Management 6 (incl. one introductory essay) 4 10 Journal of Sport Economics (excl. one Obituary) 1 21 22 Journal of Sport ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... Policy and Politics, and Sport Management Review. Scholars included in the review are working in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Anti-doping Doping remains a critical problem for sports ethics and integrity and anti-doping research and scholarship has often followed the priorities of the World Anti-Doping Authority (WADA) and national anti-doping bodies. These have included changes to the World Anti-Doping Code in 2021 and the consequent emphasis on investigations, sanctions ...
Geography of sport management research in 2022
Introduction By using a coding protocol identical to that used in a previous Sport Management Digest (SMD) issue (see Xing, 2022), we coded 180 empirical articles to capture the geography of sport management (SM) research published in the first 6 months of 2022 by the 10 targeted journals 1 . These articles were produced by authors based in 36 countries in 6 continents, and the contexts of the articles covered sport management issues in 53 countries across the ...
Sport Management Communications
Introduction The sport management research community has published over 50 sport communication (and related) articles in the field’s various journals since the second issue of SMD (March 2022 to Sep 2022). Over this period, a few sport communication research works have been published ...
Sport Communication
1. Introduction The sport management research community has published over 34 sport communication (and related) articles in the field’s various journals since the first issue of SMD. During this period, sport communication research has been published in journals such as the European Sport ...
Sport Leadership
... leadership, including: institutional entrepreneurship, principle-agent (mis)alignment, race and coaching employment, innovative leadership, hybrid management, and gender inequality issues in female leadership positions. In addition, this collection of research investigates leadership issues across a broad range of contexts and countries, including: coalitions for youth sport concussion legislation (USA), the Commonwealth Games (Australia), international rugby union, the National Football League (USA),...
Sport Leadership
Introduction This edition of Sport Management Digest’s Sport Leadership section leads off with a review of the leadership research published in 2023. Since the previous edition, one work by Kang and Svensson (2023a) was published that related to sport leadership in the Journal of Sport Management (JSM). When reviewing the selected journals for this issue of Sport Leadership,...
Sport Leadership
... it would appear the “pattern of productive engagement” (p. 493) by the change agent was indeed consistent with several leadership approaches (e.g., authentic, servant, strategic, transformational, etc). Moving forward with organisational change research in the sport environment, it would be advisable to also consider theoretical lenses that include leadership as a driver of culture and organisational change (e.g., Samimi et al., in press; Schein, 2010). Capturing the views of stakeholders from ...
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 ...
The Geography of Sport Management Research in 2023
Introduction This analysis explores the geographical landscape of sport management (SM) research based on empirical articles published in the 10 target journals in 2023. The 508 articles published in 2023 comprised 422 empirical studies and 86 non-empirical pieces such as reviews, conceptual works, commentaries, editorials, and interviews....
Sport Communication
... 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 journals. During this review period, the two leading journals in communication ...
Sport Leadership
... Quarterly (ESMQ), and one from the Journal of Global Sport Management (JGSM). Each of the articles in this section include either a direct focus on leaders and leadership in sport or examine those in leadership positions as important populations in the research. The articles spanned a variety of contexts, cultures, and approaches to studying leadership. Included in this section are articles involving different countries such as a global sport leadership approach to examining the aptitude of a relationship ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... 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 and robust understanding of the examined issues and phenomena and help broaden research in terms of taking consideration into other values ...
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 ...
Sport Economics
Introduction All papers considered in this section of the digest come from published issues dated July 2022 - December 2022 in 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 ...
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 Leadership
... articles. There is one article each from Sport Management Review (SMR), Journal of Sport Management (JSM), Journal of Global Sport Management (JGSM), and European Sport Management Quarterly (ESMQ). Each article deals directly with a leadership-based research context or theory, or investigates those in leadership positions, such as coaches. The current compilation of articles offers a mostly qualitative approach to studying leadership as three out of the four articles used a qualitative methodology....
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 ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
Introduction This paper reviewed the ten most popular sport journals in regard to their research design. The publications under review were published between September 2023 and February 2024. Table 1 provides a summary of the methodological approaches used in the respective journals. Table 1: Summary of Methodological Approaches Journals ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... included a familiar qualitative coding approach to the data, done through iterative and inductive steps. The following section provides a discussion on the highlights of each reviewed paper with synthesis to each other or the greater sport leadership research stream where appropriate. Advances in Sport Leadership Research Read and Lock (2022) merged the recent societal topic of U.S. NFL players protesting the national anthem prior to a game along with the image repair theory and social identity ...
Sport Leadership
... included a familiar qualitative coding approach to the data, done through iterative and inductive steps. The following section provides a discussion on the highlights of each reviewed paper with synthesis to each other or the greater sport leadership research stream where appropriate. Advances in Sport Leadership Research Read and Lock (2022) merged the recent societal topic of U.S. NFL players protesting the national anthem prior to a game along with the image repair theory and social identity ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... 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 data (apart from Kelly, Derrington and Star’s ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... in new countries and contexts. In this review, three articles are drawn from Communication and Sport, and two each from the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, the Journal of Sport Management, and Sport Management Review. Equalities Research and scholarship on sport and equalities continues to expand in the sports management literature. Perhaps, one of the most pressing and controversial topics for governing bodies and competition organisers is how, or even whether, to include athletes ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... Wales in June/July 2019. With these two key moments, the authors aimed to evaluate the players’ reasoning for the protests as well as reactions by commentators which ultimately could frame a debate around reforming the Australian national anthem. The research design applied a critical race theory framework to do Indigenous players justice. The aim of the study was to listen and interpret the reasons behing the protests. The authors undertook an online search of relevant “national anthem” material ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
Introduction This paper reviewed the ten most popular sport journals concerning their research design. The publications under review were published between March and August 2023, and Table 1 summarises the methodological approaches used in the respective journals: Journals Mixed Qualitative Quantitative Total Communication & Sport 1 21 ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... analysis framework, and sport policy initiatives evaluations. This collection of articles featured one systematic review, two policy documents reviews, one commendatory piece, and two empirical studies. A wide range of theories was used to guide the research investigation and/or to support the interpretation of the findings. These included Foucault's analysis of ideas, ideology, knowledge and power; Eisenstadt's multiple modernities; Henry's account of sports/cultural policy orientations; policy ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... 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 related to several topics (e.g., governance and leadership) are not highlighted here but presented in another section to avoid duplications....
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 ...
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 ...
Sport Communication
The sport management research community has actively contributed to the field of sport communication between March 2023 and August 2023, publishing upwards of 40 articles across a variety of journals. This period, starting with the fourth issue of Sport Management Digest ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... and it can be seen that the majority of these publications (34) are about sport marketing related topics, and the rest about sport sponsorship. In line with previous issues, consumer and fan behaviour remain the most focused topics in sport marketing research with at least ten articles devoted to fan behaviour studies and another 8 to general sport consumer behaviour. With respect to sport sponsorship, while sponsorship mechanisms and effectiveness continues to garner scholarly attention, human brand ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... and it can be seen that the majority of these publications (31) are about sport marketing related topics, and the rest about sport sponsorship. In line with previous issues, consumer and fan behaviour remain the most focused topics in sport marketing research with new context such as Esports and environment continuing to grow. With respect to sport sponsorship, articles continued to be published on topic areas related to sponsorship mechanisms, sponsorship effectiveness, sponsorship evaluation, ambush ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... reviewed in detail 1. Sport sponsorship The majority of articles (6 out of 8), under the theme of sport sponsorship, have the aim to assess the influence of various factors on sponsorship effect through empirical studies. This resonates with the sustained research interest in this topic over the past decades in the extant literature. Among them, Pontes, Pontes, Jin and Mahar (2021) examine three factors influencing sponsorship effectiveness, namely audience perceptions of sincerity regarding sponsor motives,...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... reviewed in detail 1. Sport sponsorship The majority of articles (6 out of 8), under the theme of sport sponsorship, have the aim to assess the influence of various factors on sponsorship effect through empirical studies. This resonates with the sustained research interest in this topic over the past decades in the extant literature. Among them, Pontes, Pontes, Jin and Mahar (2021) examine three factors influencing sponsorship effectiveness, namely audience perceptions of sincerity regarding sponsor motives,...
Sport Governance and Policy
... authors formulated a model elucidating how EDI policies may paradoxically perpetuate the exclusions they aim to mitigate, calling for ‘reproducing the status quo’ and ‘reproducing the excludable other’. Regarding practical applications, the research team has generated practitioner-oriented resources that not only critique existing issues but also propose viable policy alternatives. These resources have been extensively disseminated and are accessible for scholarly review at the following: ...
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 ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... The past few months have witnessed the publication of several interesting and useful papers on the topic of sport policy and governance. Those familiar with the selection criteria of the Sport Management Digester will know that, preferably, empirical research papers that significantly enhance our understanding of policy and governance are chosen. This is rather than papers that merely apply a particular policy or governance theoretical concept/framework, as is the case with this issue. However, it ...
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management*
... discourses of sport for Indigenous Australians yet neglecting the representation of Indigenous voices and community interests. Using Bacchi’s (2009) framework the authors’ critical examination of “the ‘power of sport’ narrative” supports previous research that highlights neo-colonial policy objectives and the need to examine further the role of power and resistance from the perspective of Indigenous Australians. MacCharles and Melton (2021) frame their qualitative study of gay men working in the ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... has been a division in scholarly findings with some studies finding that there has been a welcome improvement in access for those who identify as LGBT+ while other surveys have found ongoing discriminatory cultures and practices. Using a mixed methods research approach that involved a quantitative survey and qualitative interviews to study inclusion in Australian cricket, Storr et al (2022) found that there was often support by community groups for inclusion but that this was not always replicated ...
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management
... 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 have grouped different theoretical perspectives employed by sport management researchers into four categories ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... court’s ruling announcement to ban two teams for engaging in corruption impacted the share price of sponsoring firms. The negative effects on firm value were greater for sponsors of suspended organizations than league sponsors or non-corrupt teams. This research supports the sports corruption literature in terms of the impact of corruption on sponsors who are connected to corrupt teams. Event study methodology is also a popular method for testing the economic impact of unethical behavior in sports. Manoli ...