Sport event legacy: A systematic quantitative review of literature
Publication date: Available online 6 July 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Alana Thomson, Graham Cuskelly, Kristine Toohey, Millicent Kennelly, Paul Burton, Liz FredlineAbstractThe study of sport event legacies has grown rapidly since 2000 across a number of disciplines related to planning and hosting large-scale sport events. However, to date, there have been limited attempts to systematically review and synthesise extant sport event legacy research, reflect on existing knowledge, and identify key gaps for future research. In this article, the authors reviewed the state of sport event legacy research through ...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
Fast food, fizz, and funding: Balancing the scales of regional sport organisation sponsorship
Publication date: Available online 7 July 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Rachel J. Batty, Sarah GeeAbstarctTobacco, alcohol and gambling-related sport sponsorships have faced widespread scrutiny due to a critical consciousness that questions the alignment of unhealthy products and damaging addictive behaviours with a healthy activity such as sport. The purpose of this study was to explore how a public health agenda may influence rugby union organisations in their negotiation of sponsorship relationships with food and beverage companies. Interviews with a purposeful sample of New Zealand regional rugby organi...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
Managerial perceptions of factors affecting the design and delivery of sport for health programs for refugee populations
Publication date: Available online 8 July 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Arden Anderson, Marlene A. Dixon, Kristi F. Oshiro, Pamela Wicker, George B. Cunningham, Bob HeereAbstractMillions of refugees from the Middle East and Africa have moved to mainland Europe in recent years, where they face boredom, physical and mental health issues, and lack of social relationships. Policy makers consider sport an effective way to address these issues, but researchers have not fully considered managerial considerations in designing and delivering sport to refugees. The purpose of this study is to understand how sport man...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
Fast food, fizz, and funding: Balancing the scales of regional sport organisation sponsorship
Publication date: Available online 7 July 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Rachel J. Batty, Sarah GeeAbstarctTobacco, alcohol and gambling-related sport sponsorships have faced widespread scrutiny due to a critical consciousness that questions the alignment of unhealthy products and damaging addictive behaviours with a healthy activity such as sport. The purpose of this study was to explore how a public health agenda may influence rugby union organisations in their negotiation of sponsorship relationships with food and beverage companies. Interviews with a purposeful sample of New Zealand regional rugby organi...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 7, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
Sport event legacy: A systematic quantitative review of literature
Publication date: Available online 6 July 2018Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Alana Thomson, Graham Cuskelly, Kristine Toohey, Millicent Kennelly, Paul Burton, Liz FredlineAbstractThe study of sport event legacies has grown rapidly since 2000 across a number of disciplines related to planning and hosting large-scale sport events. However, to date, there have been limited attempts to systematically review and synthesise extant sport event legacy research, reflect on existing knowledge, and identify key gaps for future research. In this article, the authors reviewed the state of sport event legacy research through ...
Source: Sport Management Review - July 7, 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 6, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
Leisure, Sport and Tourism, Politics, Policy and Planning, Anthony James Veal, (4th Edition), CABI, Nosworthy Way, Wallingford, Oxfordshire (2017) p. 421. ISBN: 978178064804.
Publication date: Available online 28 September 2017Source: Sport Management ReviewAuthor(s): Richard Keith Wright (Source: Sport Management Review)
Source: Sport Management Review - July 5, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research
