The impact of organizational capacity on voluntary engagement in sports clubs: A multi-level analysis
Publication date: June 2018Source: Sport Management Review, Volume 21, Issue 3Author(s): Philipp Swierzy, Pamela Wicker, Christoph BreuerAbstractAs volunteerism occurs in an organizational context, both individual factors and organizational characteristics affect (potential) volunteers in sports clubs. Whereas a number of researchers have studied individual-level determinants, knowledge on the role of organizational-level factors is limited. Based on the concept of organizational capacity, in the present study, the authors investigate whether and how human resources, financial, and structural capacities of sports clubs inf...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
Leadership in governance: Exploring collective board leadership in sport governance systems
Publication date: June 2018Source: Sport Management Review, Volume 21, Issue 3Author(s): Lesley Ferkins, David Shilbury, Ian O’BoyleAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to introduce and explore a working conceptualisation of collective board leadership in a federal sport network. In this paper, the authors examine the relationship between collective leadership and governance systems specifically within the non-profit sport organisation context, bringing together notions of collective board leadership and collaborative governance. Neither concept has yet been presented in tandem for the benefit of developing sport governa...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
The evolving institutional work of the National Collegiate Athletic Association to maintain dominance in a fragmented field
Publication date: Available online 6 June 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Nite Calvin, Ige Abiodun, Washington MarvinAbstractHigh-profile sport governance associations tend to remain intact despite numerous issues that would predict their demise. As such, these types of associations offer valuable contexts for understanding institutional maintenance work. The authors conducted a historical case study of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the U.S. More than 7000 pages of documents spanning more than 100 years were analyzed to document how the NCAA rose to dominance in a contested field and ...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
Emotional intelligence, servant leadership, and development goal orientation in athletic directors
Publication date: Available online 8 June 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Ye Hoon LeeAbstractScholars and policy makers have long considered sport as a vehicle for promoting young athletes’ well-being, educational experience, and citizenship skills. Athletic directors can play a significant role in this process by establishing organizational goals that can foster the development of young athletes and also by ensuring that other personnel abide by these goals. However, little is known about methods athletic directors can use to focus on such development goals in the midst of the current winning-at-all-costs ...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
A model for the generation of public sphere-like activity in sport-themed Twitter hashtags
Publication date: Available online 9 June 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Brendan O’Hallarn, Stephen L. Shapiro, D.E. Wittkower, Lynn Ridinger, Marion E. HambrickAbstractThe social media site Twitter has been subject to significant recent criticism, because of some users’ propensity for behaviors such as bullying, racism and homophobia, and rhetorical excess. Critics suggest Twitter has changed from its beginnings, where it was seen as a site that promoted broad-based debate and advancement of democracy. In this conceptual paper, the authors suggest that those ideals can still be realized, and that Twitte...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
The economics of sports betting; Placido Rodrigues, Brad R Humphreys and Robert Simmons (Eds.), 2007, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham UK & Massachussetts US
Publication date: Available online 19 June 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Deepak Dhayanithy (Source: Sport Management Review)
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
The “I” in team: Coach incivility, coach gender, and team performance in women’s basketball teams
Publication date: Available online 22 June 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Amber L. Smittick, Kathi N. Miner, George B. CunninghamAbstractIncivility is common across many sport contexts, yet empirical examination of its influence is lacking, especially when it comes to the influence of incivility on team emergent states and performance. The purpose of the present study was to address this topic by investigating the effects of leader incivility toward team members on team outcomes. The authors also examined team cohesion and psychological safety as potential mediators of the leader incivility-performance relat...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
A systematic review of sport for development interventions across six global cities
Publication date: Available online 23 June 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Meredith A. Whitley, William V. Massey, Martin Camiré, Lindsey C. Blom, Megan Chawansky, Shawn Forde, Mish Boutet, Amanda Borbee, Simon C. DarnellAbstractRecently published reviews have begun the process of synthesizing the knowledge within the growing Sport for Development (SfD) field, but there is a need to critically evaluate the research on which these findings are based. This systematic review is a critical appraisal of both quantitative and qualitative evidence in academic and grey literature in the SfD field. The strength and q...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
Shared leadership in sport for development and peace: A conceptual framework of antecedents and outcomes
Publication date: Available online 23 June 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Seungmin Kang, Per G. SvenssonAbstractA broad range of organizations are involved in the field of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP). The complex environmental factors and internal capacity challenges surrounding SDP organizations put additional pressures on SDP managers who are required to balance multiple organizational demands to achieve sustainable program outcomes. Although scholars have begun to explore managerial aspects of SDP efforts, literature on the nature of leadership in SDP remains scarce. In this article, therefore, ...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
Mark Piekarz, Ian Jenkins, Peter Mills. Risk and safety management in the leisure, events, tourism and sports industries, 1st edition. CABI, Nosworthy Way, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8DE, UK (2015). 283 pages, ISBN-13: 978 1 78064 449 3
Publication date: Available online 23 June 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Lewis Laing (Source: Sport Management Review)
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
Sport as medicine: How F3 is building healthier men and communities
Publication date: Available online 23 June 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Stacy WarnerAbstractGiven sport has been largely absent from U.S. public health policies and discourse, the author suggests ways that sport can be better managed to promote health. Using a critical perspective and grounded theory approach, the author examined the experiences of 14 men in the grassroots recreational program, F3. Data were collected through observation and semi-structured interviews. Based on the results, a conceptual model that suggests how sport should be managed to address illnesses related to physical inactivity is p...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
Relationships between met-expectation and attitudinal outcomes of coaches in intercollegiate athletics
Publication date: Available online 28 June 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Seungmo Kim, Taeyeon Oh, Soonhwan Lee, Damon P.S. AndrewAbstractThe purpose of this study was to examine direct and indirect relationships between met-expectation and coaches’ attitudinal work-related outcomes (job satisfaction and organizational commitment) through the mediating effects of perceived organizational support. A total of 260 coaches at National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I, II, and III institutions in the United States participated in the online survey. The results of structural equation modeling (S...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
The impact of deviance on head coach dismissals and implications of a personal conduct policy
Publication date: Available online 30 June 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Jeremy J. Foreman, Brian P. Soebbing, Chad S. SeifriedAbstractEffects of deviant behavior committed by NFL teams’ coaching staffs and players on head coach dismissals are examined before and after a personal conduct policy change. Using 505 observations from 2000 through 2015, survival analysis results indicate deviance committed by players affect head coach retention decisions. More specifically, workplace deviance committed by subordinates, as measured by player fines, increases head coach dismissal likelihood, regardless of the in...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
Using a discrete choice experiment to estimate spectators’ willingness to pay for professional baseball park sportscape
Publication date: Available online 2 July 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Jin-ho Shin, Seong Ok LyuAbstractThe physical environment of sport facilities, referred to as the sportscape, has a substantial influence on the extent to which sport fans attend sporting events and revisit the facilities. Accordingly, professional franchises make efforts to construct new stadiums with different sportscape elements, which serve as important factors that determine spectators’ levels of attendance satisfaction. With a sample of South Korean baseball fans, the authors examine which sportscape components of professional b...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
NFL Play 60: Managing the intersection of professional sport and obesity
Publication date: Available online 5 July 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Emily S. Sparvero, Stacy WarnerAbstractProfessional sport teams are increasingly involved in corporate social responsibility initiatives that target public health issues. However, the development of these programs are rarely guided by the best practices in public health, and they are almost never subjected to rigorous evaluation. Using a case study approach, intervention mapping, a public health method grounded in the social ecological model, was applied to NFL Play 60, the NFL’s efforts to combat childhood obesity. Using uncontested ...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
