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Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... informal rules that normalizes corruption, and direct and indirect relationships that place undue influences on referees to engage in match-fixing. Manoli et al. (2021) conducted a comparative case analysis of United European Football Association’s (UEFA) policy responses to Greek and Turkish match-fixing cases. Using a normative lens, the study exposed important inconsistencies in policy responses between the two cases. The findings support current scholarship that suggests accountability measures ...
Sport Economics
... football and found some evidence that there was in fact a negative effect on stadium attendance given the live telecast of a match. Wills, Tacon, and Addesa (2022) also consider European football with an examination of the television demand for the UEFA Championship League. Their goal was to test the efficiency of the tournament’s structure based on relative TV viewership outcomes. Interestingly, they found that TV audiences were not drawn to higher degrees uncertainty of outcome, but rather the ...
Sport Economics
... (such as labour market restrictions or salary determinants): 7, Sports demand (such as the determinants of stadium attendance and TV viewing): 7, Sports participation (such as the effects on health or well-being): 3, Finance (such as 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 ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... subthemes. The subthemes of Erasing, Problematising, and Hedging were discussed in their second theme of Reproducing the Excludable Other. Sponsorship and social justice: brand positioning on diversity and inclusion in sport marketing during the 2020 UEFA European Football Championship (Beek et al., 2023) This study aimed to identify contextual changes in communications, social activism, and perceptions of commercialisation and to what extent these have changed the dynamics in sport sponsorship. ...
State of Sport Management Research in 2021: An Overview
... funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada which provided grants for 6 projects on which these were based. The spectrum of funding sources also includes major sport organisations such as the International Olympic Committee, UEFA, Sport Australia, UK Sport and Sasakawa Foundation and speaks to the appeal and potential impact of the sport management research conducted. The introductory article to the first issue of the SMD (2021) discussed the democratisation of knowledge ...
Sport Management Communications
... ethical issues, MLB broadcasts and the fact metrics, being a female sports journalist on Twitter, and “digital” sports journalism. Media coverage of concussion: media narratives about concussions, and media framing of concussion following the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final. Mega/Major-events and media coverage: legacy of Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, and the impact of media globalization of English Football and the Kuwaiti experience. Forms of communication in sport: basketball as a communicative ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... test the effects of hosting mega sporting events (MSE) on the inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in host countries by using an event study approach. The sample consists of 11 Summer Olympic Games, 10 Winter Olympic Games, 12 FIFA World Cups, 10 UEFA European Championships, and 11 Asian Games from 1960 to 2018. The findings indicated that hosting MSE increased the inward FDI in the host country. However, hosting the Asian Games induced negative abnormal FDI. The effects on the inward FDI from ...