Advanced Theory and Practice in Sport Marketing, Eric C. Schwarz, Jason D. Hunter., 3rd edition, Routledge (2018), 354 pp., eText ISBN: 9781351667623
Publication date: Available online 3 September 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Hung Q. Huynh (Source: Sport Management Review)
Source: Sport Management Review - September 4, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
Experiences of trans persons in physical activity and sport: A qualitative meta-synthesis
Publication date: Available online 27 August 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Víctor Pérez-Samaniego, Jorge Fuentes-Miguel, Sofía Pereira-García, Elena López-Cañada, José Devís-DevísAbstractAccess and participation of trans people in physical activity and sport result in a variety of experiences. The purpose of this paper was to map and provide new insights to existing qualitative research on experiences of trans people in physical activity and sport. Searches in international databases identified 604 documents related with those issues. Of these, the authors assessed 31 studies in accordance with a r...
Source: Sport Management Review - August 28, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
Does your left hand know what your right hand is doing? Impacts of athletes’ pre-transgression philanthropic behavior on consumer post-transgression evaluation
Publication date: Available online 23 August 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Joon Sung Lee, Katherine BabiakAbstractDespite the importance of an athlete’s image and reputation as an individual brand, the academic literature lacks investigations on whether and how an athlete’s brand can be protected when they engage in unethical transgressions. Focusing on athletes’ pro-social activities, the authors presented an experimental study to test how an athlete’s pro-social efforts can alleviate negative impacts from his/her transgression. In particular, the authors test the impacts of athletes’ involvement...
Source: Sport Management Review - August 23, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
Do influxes of atypical labor make sport event workers prone to exploitation?
Publication date: Available online 7 August 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Christopher M. McLeod, John T. Holden, Matthew G. Hawzen, Tarlan ChahardovaliAbstractSport organizations that host events are pulsating organizations because they gain an influx of workers for a short duration. The influx often consists of atypical workers including independent contractors, seasonal workers, temporary workers, interns, prison workers, and volunteers. Atypical workers have fewer rights and protections compared with standard employees. So, when sport organizations swell to include these underprotected workers, they may ...
Source: Sport Management Review - August 8, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
The carbon footprint of active sport participants
Publication date: Available online 31 July 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Pamela WickerAbstractResearchers examining carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions (carbon footprint) in sport have focused on sport events and, to a lesser extent, sport teams, but provided only average or aggregate values. The author takes the perspective of active sport participants and considers the heterogeneity of individual sport participation behavior. Using online surveys, adult active sport participants (n = 6537) in 20 different sports with main residence in Germany were asked to report their sport-travel behavior in 2015, i...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 31, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
Inside front cover: Editorial board/Aims & Scope
Publication date: August 2018Source: Sport Management Review, Volume 21, Issue 4Author(s): (Source: Sport Management Review)
Source: Sport Management Review - July 26, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
Exploring how external stakeholders shape social innovation in sport for development and peace
This study extends the existing SDP literature and underscores the need to adopt a more specific external perspective when examining the process of innovation in sport organizations. (Source: Sport Management Review)
Source: Sport Management Review - July 24, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
Associations between partnership characteristics and perceived success in Dutch sport-for-health partnerships
Publication date: Available online 11 July 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Niels Hermens, Kirsten T. Verkooijen, Maria A. KoelenAbstractTo reach and include socially vulnerable people through sport, it is important to create partnerships between sports organisations and public health organisations (i.e., sport-for-health partnerships). Working in sport-for-health partnerships is challenging, however, and little is known about how to manage such partnerships. To explore possible predictors of successful sport-for-health partnership, the authors administered a questionnaire among 86 participants in Dutch sport-...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 11, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
Sport team emotion: Conceptualization, scale development and validation
Publication date: Available online 23 August 2017Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Seunghwan Lee, Yukyoum Kim, Bob HeereAbstractThe purpose of this study was to identify key emotions associated with professional sport team brands and to develop a valid, reliable scale to measure the recall of these emotions. A pool of 30 potential emotions was drawn through a content analysis, a qualitative study (n = 67), frequency analysis (n = 560), and categorization process. The identified emotions were subjected to an exploratory factor analysis (n = 260) and confirmatory factor analysis (n = 286). The emotion...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
The Business of Sports—Off the Field, in the Office, on the News, Mark Conrad (3rd Edition), Routledge, 711 Third Avenue, New York (2017). p. 453. ISBN: 9781138913196.
Publication date: Available online 26 August 2017Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Li-Shiue Gau (Source: Sport Management Review)
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
A typology of cause-related marketing approaches in European professional basketball
Publication date: Available online 31 August 2017Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Cleo Schyvinck, Annick WillemAbstractAs professional sports organisations are increasingly engaging in Cause-Related Marketing (CRM), there is a growing interest in understanding to what extent Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can deliver win–win outcomes for both the organisation and society at large. In this article, the authors provide a typology of CRM approaches adopted by professional sports teams and demonstrate if and how they approach social responsibility from a marketing perspective. The authors use a qualitative me...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
Power, performance, and expectations in the dismissal of NBA coaches: A survival analysis study
Publication date: Available online 31 August 2017Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): David B. Wangrow, Donald J. Schepker, Vincent L. BarkerAbstractResearchers focusing on coach dismissal often examine organizational performance as an antecedent; however, there has been minimal attention to the ways in which countervailing dimensions of power associated with coaches and ownership influence dismissal decisions, while still considering performance as well as expectations. To understand how power, performance and expectations affect coach dismissals, the authors examine the tenures of coaches in the North American-based...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
NCAA football television viewership: Product quality and consumer preference relative to market expectations
Publication date: Available online 4 September 2017Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Katie M. Brown, Steven SalagaAbstractThe authors estimate the determinants of college football television viewership across the full quality spectrum of contests and test whether consumer preferences vary based on changes in the attributes of the core product. They utilize national television viewership data at the individual game level over a three season period and estimate numerous consumer demand models using zero-truncated negative binomial regression. The results indicate a lack of support for anticipated outcome uncertainty,...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
Equity-based sustainability and ecocentric management: Creating more ecologically just sport organization practices
Publication date: Available online 4 September 2017Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Melanie L. Sartore-Baldwin, Brian McCulloughAbstractRecognizing the shared responsibility all entities with a vested interest in keeping the Earth habitable possess, the authors propose ways in which sport organizations can take action by incorporating ecocentric management principles within their organizational practices and thus become more ecologically just. First, by drawing upon the tenets of the systems thinking paradigm and the four levels of thinking model, the underlying beliefs and values guiding current practices within ...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
Dress for fit: An exploration of female activewear consumption
Publication date: Available online 21 September 2017Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Xiaochen Zhou, Clare Hanlon, Jonathan Robertson, Ramon Spaaij, Hans Westerbeek, Allison Hossack, Daniel C. FunkAbstractWhile the female activewear market is growing rapidly, research on activewear consumption and female consumers is lagging. Existing researchers have failed to produce an in-depth understanding of female consumers’ perceptions of activewear, thereby providing limited insights for the activewear industry. Drawing upon brand association theory and the functional, expressive, and aesthetic model, the authors identif...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
