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Geography of sport management research
... understanding of reality (Henry, 2007). An analysis of the geography of SM research offers both an additional lens to appreciate the status of knowledge production in the field and an opportunity to critically reflect on how relevant our research is to other studies within the growing academic field of SM. Furthermore, it alerts us of the potential for eurocentrism when, as is all too common, social science theories generated in the West are applied directly to other cultures (Henry, 2007). We embarked on ...
Geography of sport management research in 2022
... the articles in each sport domain across the continental contexts reflects both the popularity of sport domains across the continents and the research interests of the SM scholars. As presented in Table 1, the greatest number of articles were based on studies taking place in the contexts of North America (40%), followed by the contexts of Europe (23%) and Asia (15%). In addition, 12% of the articles were based in international contexts. Plotting the sport domains against the contextual continents yielded ...
Sport Communication
... 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 interactions, and the broader sports narrative. In the two issues of International ...
Sport Communication
... Marketing and Sponsorship, European Sport Management Quarterly, Journal of Global Sport Management, and others. Two journals in particular, Communication and Sport (six articles) and International Journal of Sport Communication (three articles) published studies on the topic of media representation and media consumption – the two themes on which this section of the issue focuses. Nine articles from these two journals, representing the work of 43 authors from 20 different universities, are summarized ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... (incl. one editorial essay) 14 24 International Journal of Sport Finance 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 ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, Journal of Sport Management, and Sport Management Review. Ethics and Sport Integrity is a topic that spans across a majority of the sport management scholarly outlets regardless of journal focus. Two papers studied sport corruption. One paper examined corruption’s impact on event sponsors. Whilst one another investigated the media’s role in communicating corruption. Two papers examined athlete misconduct and its effect on team, stadium, and league sponsors....
Sport Communication
... win and Hurricane Harvey. In the first issue, the sport communication section of SMD focused on media representation of disability, mental illness, and women in sport; and media coverage and consumption of sport (TV and social media). Since that time, studies on these topic areas continued to be published (the first three themes listed above), and extended the findings of the previous studies covered in Issue I. 2. Advances in sport management communications For this current issue, new and different ...
Sport Leadership
Introduction This edition of the Sport Management Digest’s Sport Leadership section encompasses a total of seven articles. The current edition includes four studies from the Journal of Sport Management (JSM), one from Sport Management Review (SMR), one from European Sport Management Quarterly (ESMQ), and one from the Journal of Global Sport Management (JGSM). Each of the articles in this section include either ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... decisions tend to be group decisions which involves the contribution and collaboration of several individuals. They, therefore, stressed the importance to investigate sponsorship decision-making as a group decision-making process. Given the lack of studies, the authors employed a qualitative Delphi study method which is particulalry useful for an exploratory nature of research (Okoli & Pawlowski, 2004). Day and Bobeva (2005, p. 103) defined the Delphi technique as ‘a structured group communication ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... (2021) 2 Total 15 Note: * Articles 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 ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... (2021) 2 Total 15 Note: * Articles 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 ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
Introduction This edition of Sport Management Digest’s Sport Leadership section encompasses a total of five articles. The current edition includes two studies from the Journal of Sport Management (JSM), two from Sport Management Review (SMR), one from International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. Each of the articles in this section include either a direct focus on leaders and leadership in sport ...
Sport Leadership
Introduction This edition of Sport Management Digest’s Sport Leadership section encompasses a total of five articles. The current edition includes two studies from the Journal of Sport Management (JSM), two from Sport Management Review (SMR), one from International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. Each of the articles in this section include either a direct focus on leaders and leadership in sport ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... across countries as well as events. The fourth paper, which also came from JSM, examined the response of satellite fans from different target markets to different branding strategies of international professional clubs. Using three experimental online studies with survey data collected from both German and Chinese markets, Behrens, Yang, & Uhrich (2022) tested the relative effects of two foreign brand positioning strategies (purely foreign vs. locally integrated foreign) used by US major league teams ...
Sport Management Communications
... fighting promotion, exploring discourses about race/ethnicity in a Spanish TV Football Program, and socially conscious marketing during sporting events. - Sport and mediatization (Communication & Sport had a special issue on this topic and some of the studies include): the mediatization of professional tennis from the 1980s to the early 2010s, mediatization and self-organized leisure sports from a Finnish perspective, mediatization of the Olympic Games in Croatia and Slovenia, mediatization and public ...
Sport Governance and Policy
Introduction Sport governance and policy persist as focal points of scholarly inquiry, owing to their intricate interplay and their capacity to exert a significant societal imprint. The current section provides a nuanced synthesis of seven seminal articles, each contributing significantly to the understanding of these intricate fields. A thorough examination has been conducted of articles published in the selected journals over the past six months. From this review, seven papers have been identified...
Sport Governance and Policy
... and future of sport policy: a bibliometric analysis of International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics (2010–2022), International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 15:4, 577-602, DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2228829 In this current issue, five studies from top journals in our discipline are highlighted below. Three of the studies were conducted by British research teams, one from Canada, and one from the US. These studies typically employed document analysis approaches, with or without the ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... 39 Note: * refers to articles reviewed in detail. With the rise of Esports and its growing economic and social influence, academic research around it has also seen steady growth in recent years. This issue will focus on this emerging sport and five studies related to marketing and sponsorship of Esports will be reviewed in detail. In the first paper, Rietz and Hallmann (2023) conducted a systematic review on Esports to evaluate motivation and intention in online and on-site spectatorship. Based ...
Sport Leadership
1. Introduction This edition of the Sport Leadership section for Sport Management Digest covers a total of eight articles. The collection includes two studies each from European Sport Management Quarterly (ESMQ), the Journal of Sport Management (JSM), and Sport Management Review (SMR), and one study from both the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics (IJSPP) and the International Journal ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... colleagues and explored how the extractive industry (mining, quarring, oil, and gas) leverages CSR activites, in the form of funding sport initiatives, aims to improve the lives of Indigenous people. In their research, the authors adopted a settler colonial studies lens which is defined as “a persistent social and political formation in which newcomers/colonizers/settlers come to a place, claim it as their own, and do whatever it takes to disappear the Indigenous peoples that are there” (Arvin et al....
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... theoretical perspectives were used to frame the research including critical race theory, entrepreneurship theory, framing theory, institutional theory, structural constraints theory, and self-determination theory. The main methodologies used were case studies, basic qualitative approaches (e.g., interviews, content analysis) and quantitative approaches (e.g., survey) that used longitudinal analysis, regression analysis and synthetic control method. 6. Annotated bibliography Babiak, K., & Sant, S. ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... (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 and endorsement effectiveness has become a new burgeoning ...
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 (incl. three editorials) 8 30 European Sport Management Quarterly 3 25 (incl. one editorial) 34 62 International Journal of Sport Finance - - 8 8 International Journal...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... microblogging service in China with 582 million monthly active users. Sentiment analysis was conducted on collected Weibo posts to examine Chinese spectators’ emotions towards foreign-born Chinese athletes. Sentiment analysis is commonly used in social studies to identify sentiments, opinions, and emotions about a given subject and/or topic. The study’s findings indicated that Chinese spectators generally had positive emotions toward the Olympians in this study. Online discussions mainly focused on ...
Sport Economics
... and other amateur sports): 3 Finance & Ownership (such as the financial returns to investment sport, sport and financial markets): New perspectives on labor markets and performance in sport For this edition of the Digest, I’ve reviewed empirical studies exploring labor market and performance issues in sport. Labor market analyses are long a staple of sport economics research and the initial volumes of 2022 have seen a substantial amount of traditional sport labor market research. Indeed, the ...
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 ...
Sport Communication
... Olympic Games held in East Asia, namely the Olympic Games held in PyeongChang, Tokyo, and Beijing. Edited by Koji Kobayashi, John Horne, Younghan Cho, and Jung Woo Lee, and featuring 8 original research by 13 authors, the issue presented a range of studies that address themes such as the political framing of the Games by international media, the cultural and national identity implications of athlete naturalization, and the nuanced portrayal of athletes across different national contexts. Additional ...
Geography of Sport Management Research in 2022
... power, public support, economic-related, doping and so on. The few articles using a MPSE- or charity event-related contexts mainly examined topics related to participant-, sponsor-, and donor-related issues. Sport consumers : this domain contains studies that mainly use a sport consumer (e.g., viewers, spectators, fans, and participants) sample without specifying a particular sport consumption setting or a concrete sport domain (e.g., professional sport, sport events, collegiate athletics, and ...
Sport Management Communications
... communications As it may be recalled, the first issue of the sport communication section of SMD focused on topics such as: media representation of disability, mental illness, and women in sport; and media coverage and consumption of sport (TV and social media). Studies on these topic areas continued to be published and extended the findings of the previous studies covered since Issue I. The second issue focused on the topics of race and sport media, and forms of communications in sport. As pointed out above,...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... 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 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 ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... 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, or only addressing policy/governance concerns in passing, were not included for the Digest. 2....
Sport Governance and Policy
... the field of sport policy and management, sport 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 ...
Sport Leadership
... coaches about life situations as well as seek out ways to improve coaching conditions and help minimize tipping points, which lead to the voluntary occupation turnover. While Saxe et al. (2023) concentrated on adult coaches, van Dalfsen et al. (2023) studied youth football players (under the age of 17 years old) in the Netherlands to better understand shared leadership at the youth level while also having developed the Youth Athlete Shared Leadership (YASL) scaled. As the only quantitative based study ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
Introduction Nine papers are included in this review. Seven papers have been organised under a heading of equalities. Two papers examine the ongoing problematic of racial discrimination. One article studies LGBT+ inclusion policies in Australian cricket and two further papers investigate the inclusion of transgender athletes in sport in the context of US state legislative interventions. Two papers focus on New Zealand sport equalities policy. The ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... 15 International Journal of Sport Finance 8 8 International Journal of Sport Marketing and Sponsorship 1 9 12 22 International Journal of Sport Communication 4 8 12 International Journal of Sport Communication (1 Critical Commentary and 3 Case Studies) 4 International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics 1 12 4 17 International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics – 2 Critical Commentary 2 Journal of Global Sport Management 6 3 9 Journal of Sport Economics 25 25 Journal ...
Sport Economics
... and policy on sports wagering, doping and sport outcomes): 5; Finance & Ownership (such as the financial returns to investment sport, sport and financial markets): 10. The Demand for Sport For this edition of the digest, I’ve reviewed empirical studies exploring the demand for sport. Included are demand for in-person attendance and demand for viewing on television and other media alternatives. Demand analyses have long been a staple of sport economics research and the volumes published in the ...
Sport Leadership
... (NCAA), and SPD organizations. Additionally, van Dalfsen et al. (2023) relied on quantitative methods to examine and develop a scale for measuring shared leadership in youth sport in the Netherlands. Further illustrating the various contexts that were studied through sport leadership in 2023 are the specific organizations that made up the above-mentioned studies. O’Boyle et al. (2023) focused on board members of an Australian nonprofit sport organization. Saxe et al. (2023) specifically explored ...
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 by the 10 targeted journals in the first half of 2023, 226 of which were empirical and the other 39 were literature review, conceptual paper, book review, interview and so on. The ...
Theoretical Developments in Sport Management*
... in sport management. Theory driven research is the foundation of each of the articles, with a particular interest in advancing the practice of sport management and its various sub-disciplines—consumer behaviour, governance, and critical management studies. However, it will be important to follow through with more testing and exploration of new theoretical arguments to continue to advance knowledge in sport management and its various sub-disciplines. 4. Annotated Bibliography Brown-Devlin, N., ...
Sport Economics
... issues concerning UEFA’s financial fair play or fan bonds): 3, Miscellaneous (such as contest design issues or theoretical modelling): 5. 2. New evidence on the local economic effects of sports In this edition of the digest, I review four empirical studies exploring the local economic effects of professional sports 1 . While analyzing the economic effects of sports already has a long tradition in sport economics related research, causal evidence about the local economic effects of sports is not ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... 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 range of theories was incorporated to guide the research investigation and interpret the results, including policy process ...
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. This analysis specifically focuses on the 422 empirical articles. The coding protocol employed remains consistent with previous reports on ...
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
... attendee expenditure in a more developed city adjacent to the host city. Moreover, an exploratory analysis concerning the influence of leakage in final spending was performed. Finally, the elements that would increase the probability of leakage were studied. Overall, the current case study highlighted the importance of considering the existence of leakage. 5. Sobral, V., Fairley, S., and O’Brien, D. (2023)The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios. Journal of Sport Management....
State of Sport Management Research in 2021: An Overview
... has been growing in scope, geography and appeal. The present overview of research in the field focuses on three interrelated areas including a bibliometric analysis, 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....
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
..., with four papers covered by this review addressing the effect of outcome uncertainty on demand. Rottenberg’s (1956) uncertainty of outcome hypothesis (UOH) is indeed one of the most considered topics sports economics analyses of demand. Numerous studies have investigated fans’ responses to outcome uncertainty in various professional and international sports contexts. Borland & MacDonald, (2003) provide a thorough review to that point in time. Within literature, the unpredictability of game-level ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... Their research deployed an online survey of football fans (n=2663) which asked about the presence of, what the writers rather coyly term, ‘homosexually themed language’ at matches. Usefully utilising theoretical frameworks developed in masculinity studies, notably Connell’s theory of hegemonic masculinity and Anderson’s theory of inclusive masculinity, the authors found a paradox that exists within the community of football fans. While 95% would support a gay player at their club, 41% have ...
State of Sport Management Research in the second half of 2023 (July - December): An Overview
... established format, the present overview of research in the field of sport management focuses on three interrelated areas including a bibliometric analysis, theoretical and practical appeal of research, 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. In the second half of 2023, the ten sport management journals combined published 23 issues with 248 articles. This is a ...
State of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2023 (January - July)
... introductory article, the present overview of research in the field of sport management focuses on three interrelated areas including a bibliometric analysis, theoretical and practical appeal of research, 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. In the first half of 2023, the ten sport management journals combined published 43 issues with 297 articles. This is a ...
State of Sport Management Research in the first half of 2022 (January-June): An Overview
... growing in scope, geography, and appeal. As customary, the present overview of research in the field focuses on three interrelated areas including a bibliometric analysis, 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. These three areas are complemented by an analysis of the geography of sport management research, which provides a temporal ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... 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 related to several topics (e.g., governance and leadership) are not highlighted here but presented ...