Research Question: This study investigates the degree of hidden racial hatred towards athlete protests within the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement by correcting for the Social Desirability Bias (S...

The purpose of this study was to explore the interplay between organizational culture and organizational change in non-profit sport organizations.Five Canadian national sport organizations (NSOs) p...

Sport volunteering can be a valued and meaningful way to engage in sport beyond participation, but sport volunteers lack diversity in the UK. Specifically, there has been a lack of insight into exp...

The purpose of this perspective article is to explore the predominant assumptions that underpin research and teaching in the sport management field, while pointing out a direction toward which we t...

This research develops and tests a comprehensive structural model to explain the psychological pathway behind esports spectator behaviours, linking perceived service quality to its antecedents (i.e...

Using insights from success paradoxes and hybrid institutional logics, we analyse the institutional work undertaken to construct a novel governance structure in a supporter owned professional footb...

Gender policies reflect identity-conscious human resource management structures that aim to reduce unfair treatment based on gender. Drawing on signalling theory and the categorisation-elaboration ...

There is a lack of understanding of the role of digital transformation (DT) on the management of knowledge in sport organisations. This study addresses the relationship between DT and knowledge man...

Criticism of human rights issues associated with large-scale sport events has led event rights holders to incorporate human rights into bidding and hosting requirements. Bids for FIFA World Cups (m...

Women’s football is experiencing significant growth, but is it fully inclusive? Little research explores the experiences of minority ethnic women spectators. For women’s football to capitalise on i...

This study examines the antecedents and factors shaping resident support for the 2030 FIFA Men’s World Cup bid. The analysis focuses on potential changes in a cross-cultural environment, specifical...

Drawing from the Interactional Model of Cultural Diversity, the purpose of this study was to examine how individual-, interpersonal-, and sport-level factors related to female officials’ perception...

Mediated sports, the alternative consumption formats that substitute live stadium or arena experiences, are on the rise and have become a prevalent means of consuming sport. This study developed a ...

This study investigates the impact of fantasy sport on online sport fan identities. It explores the socio-psychological outcomes experienced by sport fans participating in fantasy sport and investi...

While increasing the number of spectators at women’s football matches is critical for the commercial growth of the sport, the academic literature offers limited evidence on the drivers of stadium a...

Managing systemic change within sport governing bodies is a complex challenge. This paper uses the lens of complexity theory to shed new light on the process and investigates the following question...

Women's sports have seen a trend of diversification recently, with women's and men's teams merging to form integrated football clubs. While such integrated clubs (e.g. Paris Saint-Germain), in part...

Working within one’s calling provides individuals with several work-related benefits, while an overwork climate negatively impacts employees’ work experience. How do the concepts interact, especial...

Football is increasing its commitment toward environmental sustainability. However, the research on understanding the role of stakeholders in leveraging the adoption of green strategies in grassroo...

This study aimed to examine how actors across different organizational levels respond to institutional complexity when facilitating elite sport and sport for all. By applying institutional work to ...

This study investigates the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 on the subjective well-being of elite athletes in Germany and their thoughts about ending their careers.Using survey dat...

This study explores the subjective social inclusion (SSI) of athletes with disabilities, describing elements that, from an athlete's viewpoint, either promote or hinder their inclusion in marketing...

Prompting consumers to spend more in fantasy sport applications is necessary to provide supplementary sources of revenue for sport organizations. The current research draws on gamification literatu...

The present study analyses an emerging market (EM) football club and its internationalisation strategy, seeking to understand its motivations, perceived competitive advantages, strategies and targe...

Knowledge sharing among coaches plays a crucial role in learning. Although knowledge sharing is a significant management issue for national sport organisations (NSOs) and sport clubs, there is a la...

It is generally agreed upon that deliberate planning is needed to achieve pre-determined positive outcomes from sport events (i.e. event leveraging). There is less consensus around the specific str...

What are differential framing effects of promotional messages on participants’ prosocial behavioral intentions in the context of charity running events? Do content richness and plight information p...

The purpose of this study was to explore the role emotions play in new sport emergence.A qualitative case study of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) was undertaken, with content analysis employed to identif...

Much like the social phenomenon which it seeks to explain, institutional theory has become an institutional and dominant theoretical research traditional within sport management. In the context of ...

The purpose of this scoping review is to explore the extant literature devoted to elite athlete activism, advocacy, and protest. Three research questions guided the study: (1) How has sports activi...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors affecting broadcasters’ choice of matches and audience viewership of live Chinese Super League (CSL) matches.Data came from 720 matches spanning ...

Published in European Sport Management Quarterly (Vol. 23, No. 6, 2023)

Human brands are embedded in a web of social relationships, and examining athlete brand dynamics holistically requires accounting for the different layers of social embeddedness. However, prior res...

The study examines the intersectionality of race and gender and its impact on self-branding of Black British sportswomen.: Data from semi-structured interviews with 18 Black British sportswomen wer...

We aimed to explore consumers’ perceptions of two athletes and athletes’ engagements in social and political advocacy.We conducted 24 individual in-depth, unstructured interviews and applied Zaltma...

The purpose of this study was to: (1) identify the kinds of transitions and turning points college coaches experience (particularly normative vs non-normative), (2) examine how various transitions ...

Given the worldwide growth of women’s football and its presence on social media, it is essential to explore and understand fan attitudes and culture.This article provides the first empirical social...

This paper attempts to disentangle the impact of overseas exhibition games, a strategic marketing tool frequently implemented by professional sports clubs in their endeavors to expand into foreign ...

How do Asian women faculty’s intersecting identities influence the ways in which they identify, fulfill, and negotiate their roles in the White and masculine field of sport management?We used colla...

Research question: We have explored the utilisation of data analytics and technology in elite sports and the role it plays in enhancing on-pitch learning capabilities. In the competitive, complex, ...

This study aimed to provide a better understanding of Dual Career competencies among elite athletes. To that effect, we evaluated how elite athletes perceive the importance and their possession of ...

Current research increasingly takes a multi-actor-dominant logic and situates sport brands within ecosystems. However, the multi-actor-dominant logic has not been captured in a holistic concept yet...

Research purpose: This study has two aims: (1) to explore how supporters evaluate success when their team's objective performance record does not change but subjective features of the context do ch...

Broadly, we sought to explore the role of regional policy in sport institutions and understand their implications for organizational fields in multi-level sport governance systems. Our research que...

Social media in sport management contexts is increasingly used to highlight social issues in sport and to advocate for change, such as expanding the opportunities for women to participate. The purp...

While there is a growing body of scholarship on institutional work in sport, less is known about the role of emotions by which institutions are affected. This study aims to explore the role of emot...

In this study, we add to the slowly emerging literature on modeling the demand for women's sports by exploring the robustness of the determinants for women's volleyball – previously a largely negle...

This study was designed to better understand how institutionalized work practices in sport organizations influence employee agency. We fill a gap in the literature by reaffirming the roles of insti...

Major sports events promises are often unrealised, despite locals facing protracted periods of socio-economic disruption. This is a pervasive and empirically verified trend, but little work theoris...

There is a dearth of research within prominent sport management outlets using critical race-based theories. This article provides a pathway to addressing this problem as we build on the call to add...

I enter the cultural processes of gender through operationalizations of the institutional logics that thread agency, structure, and the reproduction of dominant discourses. The research question th...

This article addresses the need to develop a comprehensive understanding of research on the formation and content of youth sport policies by presenting a review of studies across the period from 20...

This study aims to investigate the role of moral disengagement in individuals’ decisions to consent to match-fixing, either alone or in concert with money, other inducements, and threats or pressur...

Research has shown those within sport organizations engage in legitimacy work when innovation is introduced and/or when current institutional arrangements are challenged. However, both legitimacy w...

Online abuse is prevalent in sport and can be the by-product of trigger events – reactive social media posts that motivate online hate. Little is known about what triggers online abuse, types of co...

The aim of this study was to examine if and under what conditions voluntary sport clubs (VSCs) conformed to the institutional logics of professionalism, consumerism and instrumentalism and whether ...

A significant advancement in marketing studies has been the use of big data analytics to explore and derive customer experience (CX) insights. With fitness businesses’ pivoting towards managing CX ...

The COVID-19 pandemic entailed a period where no spectators were allowed to attend arena events. This provided a unique opportunity to study how the non-presence of supportive home crowds affects h...

Although scholarship focussed upon professional athletes has grown considerably, their perspective remains underrepresented within the sport management literature. Accordingly, this study gives voi...

Digital disruption is heavily impacting incumbent sports media business models. While major sports seem to cope with digital disruption, the challenges appear much bigger for minor sports. Therefor...