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A conceptual framework for understanding brand connection to sport mascots Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2025-05-31
Yong Jae Ko, Lydia Yun, Philip Kang -
The role of identity on receptivity to environmental messaging and its impact on fandom Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2025-05-28
Brian P. McCullough, Galen Trail, Timothy Kellison, Jessica R. Murfree -
The impact of socioeconomic background on the timing of long-term contracts in Major League Baseball Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2025-05-13
Richard J Paulsen, Michael Sinkey -
Succession planning in sport for development and peace Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2025-05-01
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Race and institutionalism: how race shapes organizational behavior in sport Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-29
Ajhanai C.I. Keaton, Charles D.T. Macaulay -
The dark side of social innovation: integrating a digital application for sport-for-development programmes Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-29
Sophia Harith, Mitchell McSweeney, Annick Willem, Mathieu Winand, Mathieu Marlier -
Informing a culture shift in high performance sport in Canada: athletes’ unsafe and safe sport experiences Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-23
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Signaling a commitment to diversity: examining the intersection of sport team owner race and diversity, equity, and inclusion pledges Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-23
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“If you build it, they will buy it”: exploring consumer insights of professional women’s football merchandising strategies Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-11
Katherine Sveinson, Beth Clarkson, Keith Parry, Jessica Richards -
How does gender diversity impact board performance? Insights from Australian sport Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-04
Joshua McLeod, Pamm Phillips, Katie Rowe, Sarah Reddan, Katherine Raw, Steve Swanson -
Exploring the determinants of women football players’ Instagram popularity Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2025-03-03
Nataliya Bredikhina, Thilo Kunkel, Heather Kennedy, Francesca Fumagalli -
The opportunities and challenges facing participation in different types of women’s football in England Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-24
Paul Downward, Cristina Muniz -
Initiate, adopt, implement, and transfer: exploring the innovation process undergone by mega-sport event organizing committees Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-21
Kristina Hoff, Becca Leopkey -
Queering inclusion: the experiences of LGBTQ+ women in rugby in Aotearoa/New Zealand Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-19
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Long-distance brand relationship marketing in sport: determining factors for satellite fans’ share of wallet and time Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-12
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The role of brokerage in green partnership formation in professional sport Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-13
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Public perception of esports: an examination of esports image and genre differences Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-10-04
Jongho Kim, Kihan Kim, Hansol Kim, Shanshan LiAs esports continues to gain popularity, a clear understanding of the public image associated with esports would help corporations and organizations working within or collaborating with the esports...
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Pollination, cultivation, and perennialization: creating the amateur logic in collegiate sport Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-10-04
Calvin Nite, Marvin WashingtonWhile there is a rich tradition of understanding the impact of institutional logics on sport organizational activity, questions remain about how the logics themselves are created and remain histori...
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Leadership development: relationality and temporality in professional sport Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-10-02
Lewis Whales, Stephen Frawley, Adam Cohen, Natalia NikolovaThis study explored leadership development from a relational leadership perspective in the context of a professional sporting organization during one season. While there is an increased recognition...
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Musical congruity in sports: enhancing team branding in esports and traditional sports Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-26
Yongjin Hwang, Khalid BallouliIn the realm of sports team branding, the efficacy of brand anthems remains an unexplored yet crucial dimension. This study investigates the impact of musical congruity in distinct contexts: esport...
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Market demand for metaverse-based sporting events: a mixed-methods approach Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-25
Sam S. Chen, James J. ZhangThe burgeoning reach of the metaverse has introduced new opportunities for the sport industry. As live sporting events are increasingly being streamed in the metaverse, both industry practitioners ...
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Using feminist critical management studies to examine LGBTQ+ women’s experiences of inclusion and exclusion in rugby Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-02
Sally ShawThe purpose of this research is to examine the experiences of lesbian, bisexual, gay, takatāpui, queer, and allies (LGBTQ+) women in rugby in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Using Feminist Critical Managemen...
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Empirically testing for niche sports Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-02
Hunter Fujak, Carl Driesener, David ShilburyAlthough niching has been well explored across the marketing, strategy, and consumer behaviour literature, its application in the sport context to date has been atheoretical, resulting in pervasive...
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Black male college athletes’ self-schemata and (Un)critical consciousness Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-29
Jonathan E. Howe, Joseph N. CooperExtant literature on the experiences of Black male college athletes focuses on outcomes, such as their college engagement (academic, athletic, and social), graduation rates, and post-college transi...
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Data-driven message optimization in dynamic sports media: an artificial intelligence approach to predict consumer response Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-02
Elisa Herold, Aaditya Singh, Boris Feodoroff, Christoph BreuerArtificial intelligence (AI) and big data have the potential to promote advancement across various industries. Sport management and marketing have also significantly transformed due to rapid techno...
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Community-level implicit biases against LGBTQ+ people predict WNBA attendance Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-01
George B. CunninghamDrawing from theories of intergroup bias (Dovidio et al. 2010), the purpose of this study was to examine the association between a community’s implicit bias against racially minoritized people and ...
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Perceptions of athletes with mental health conditions and sponsor responses: a consumer perspective Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-12
Dae Hee Kwak, Namkyeong JangDespite the growing acknowledgement of the importance of mental health among athletes, the sport culture that downplays mental health problems has discouraged athletes from publicly disclosing thei...
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“Activism is welcome as long as it’s peaceful”: athletic administrators’ perspectives on college athlete activism via stakeholder theory Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-09
Samuel H. Schmidt, Yannick Kluch, Evan BrodyThe purpose of this study was to examine athletic department administrators’ perceptions of student-athlete activism via Stakeholder Theory. Since 2012, the United States has witnessed a resurgence...
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Exploring the nexus of digital technology and organizational change in non-profit sport organizations Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-07
Ashley Thompson, Michael L. Naraine, Milena M. ParentThe sport industry is not immune to the force digital technology brings in facilitating organizational change in sport organizations. Consequently, the purpose of the study was to explore the nexus...
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How does a “neutral” rule become a systemic barrier to racial justice? Human rights activism, International Olympic Committee Rule 50, and the neutrality myth in racialized organizations Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-27
Yannick Kluch, Debbie Sharnak, Scott Brooks, Stacey M. Alvarez Flores, Anthony WeemsThis study focuses on the International Olympic Committee’s Rule 50 – a policy prohibiting athlete protest at the Games – as its site of analysis to examine how sport policy becomes contested terra...
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Mixed methods in sport management: A review and directions for future research Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-26
Jordan T. Bakhsh, Jonathan Robertson, Katie RoweMixed methods research integrates qualitative and quantitative methods into a harmonised approach. Over time, conducting mixed methods research has become increasingly popular within sport manageme...
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Professional women footballers’ stories of marketing portrayals and sponsorship: “I just had to feel grateful for what I’ve been given” Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-10
Laura Harris, Dawn E. TrussellIn this paper we investigate the marketing portrayal and sponsorship experiences of professional women athletes. Specifically, we examine the perspectives of professional women footballers (i.e. so...
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Categorizing engagement behavior in sport brand communities – an empirical study informed by social practice theory Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-09
Pascal Stegmann, Tim Ströbel, Herbert WoratschekThis study ventures into uncharted territory by focusing exclusively on digital platforms to scrutinize engagement practices within sport clubs and their pivotal role in nurturing vibrant brand com...
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Watching sport enhances well-being: evidence from a multi-method approach Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-22
Keita Kinoshita, Kento Nakagawa, Shintaro SatoThe extant literature supporting the relationship between watching sport and well-being often includes a specific sample population (e.g. sport fans), with the evidence highlighted by limited resea...
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Strategy practitioners and the procedural legitimacy of strategic planning in nonprofit community sport Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-22
Kristen A. Morrison, Katie E. MisenerThis study examines how leaders of community sport organizations (CSOs) engage in a strategic planning process through the intersection of institutional work and the strategy-as-practice (SAP) appr...
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Social inequalities and (re)production in the new youth sports economy: examining the case of the Junior Tour Powered by Under Armour Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-19
Matt Hawzen, Ryan King-White, David L. Andrews, Brett GeamanThis article offers a critical analysis of a competitive junior golf organization called the Junior Tour Powered by Under Armour (UAJT) with a specific focus on its role in (re)producing social ine...
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Sport teams’ promotion of plant-based food consumption among fans Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-11
Lennart Pape, Joerg Koenigstorfer, Jonathan CasperThe study’s goal is to examine the downstream relations of fan awareness of a favorite sport team’s pro-environmental food initiatives, considering fans with different degrees of team identificatio...
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“It’s given us a much wider perspective”: exploring the domestication of design thinking into sport management practice Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-11
Greg Joachim, Nico Schulenkorf, Katie Schlenker, Stephen Frawley, Adam CohenThe perpetual evolution of sport users highlights human-centred challenges for sport organisations who aim to serve their users optimally. This study looks to the broader field of management to ide...
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Expanding sport management toward management through sport: the promise of company sport in organizations Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-27
Minjung Kim, Brent D. Oja, Calvin Nite, Christos AnagnostopoulosIn an attempt to broaden the scope of sport management, this research provides a conceptual model of management through company sport. This comprehensive model is designed to illustrate why employe...
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Perceived event impacts of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on residents’ eudaimonic well-being: a longitudinal study of within-person changes and relationships Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-18
Keita Kinoshita, Satoshi Usami, Hirotaka MatsuokaThe present study investigated 1) the changes in positive and negative event impacts and residents’ eudaimonic well-being before and after Tokyo 2020 and 2) how the social impacts are related to eu...
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Promoting sport organisations inclusivity initiatives: tailored message frames and audience selection to drive change and attitude towards team Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-28
Rory Mulcahy, David Fleischman, Peter English, Emma Florence, Retha Scheepers, Malin Sofia RoennbergSporting organisations are increasingly marketing their LGBTQI+ initiatives. However, limited research provides insights and guidance on how to effectively communicate these initiatives to improve ...
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Operational quality in youth sport clubs: towards a conceptual model Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-18
Margot Ricour, Veerle De Bosscher, Jo Van HoeckeExisting research of service quality within the context youth sport clubs has elaborated on determining quality at the organizational level. Yet, at the operational level of quality, considering th...
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The challenges of harmonising anti-doping policy implementation Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-11
Daniel Read, James Skinner, Aaron CT Smith, Daniel Lock, Maylin StanicThe policy-implementation gap conceptualises how policy intentions and outcomes often differ due to a failure to consider the realities of implementation. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) direct...
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Gender differences in lead executive compensation: evidence from intercollegiate athletics Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-07
Tyler Skinner, Steven SalagaThis paper contributes to the literature examining gender differences in executive compensation by assessing whether gender is systematically associated with the guaranteed base salary and maximum ...
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You do not suddenly become safe on your 18th birthday: managing safeguarding cases involving adult athletes in the United Kingdom Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-02
Olivia Garrod, Daniel RhindDespite publicised cases of abuse impacting those above the age of 18, little research attention has been paid to the safeguarding of adults. The present study is informed by the recommendations of...
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It’s all relative: examining the influence of social identity on sport-based youth development Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-24
Wonju Lee, Gareth J. Jones, Christine WegnerSocial identity theory provides a framework for understanding how identities tied to sport-based youth development programs facilitate positive youth development (PYD). A common assumption guiding ...
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Exploring perceptions of performance support team effectiveness in elite sport Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-21
Perry Stewart, David Fletcher, Rachel Arnold, Desmond McEwanElite sport organisations are increasingly recruiting diverse and sophisticated performance support teams in an attempt to optimise athlete health and performance. These multiteam systems are commo...
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A dual account of how excitement impacts risk-taking: Evidence from the National Hockey League’s 50-50 raffle Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-16
Alexander Davidson, Matthew D. Meng, Scott Tainsky, Mitchell C. OlsenThe current research seeks to explain the motivation to participate in risk-taking activities as a function of game-related dynamics. We examine the role of excitement in predicting purchase behavi...
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“He ringa raupā - Calloused hands”: Negotiating the intersections and responsibilities as sport practitioners and academics in Aotearoa Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-26
Farah R. Palmer, Sarah I. Leberman, Bevan EruetiIndigenous voices are rising across the world. Indigenous people and culture exist in sport, although it is challenging to hear their voices in sport management. A review of the published journal a...
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Editorial: 25th Anniversary Special Collection Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-26
Sheranne FairleyPublished in Sport Management Review (Vol. 26, No. 5, 2023)
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A bad bet for sports fans: the case for ending the “gamblification” of sport Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-26
Nerilee Hing, Matthew Rockloff, Matthew BrowneA “gamblification” of sport has occurred over the last 25 years. Sports betting operators are now major sponsors of sport, and gambling activities and cultures are firmly embedded into sport. This ...
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Advancing sport ecology research on sport and the natural environment Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-26
Brian P. McCulloughSport and the natural environment have an intimate relationship threatened by global warming and climate change. Individual sport organizations and events to the collective global sport sector must...
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Unlocking the power of job design in sports: a systematic review and future research agenda Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-25
Mohsen Loghmani, Popi Sotiriadou, Jason DoyleUsing a Systematic Quantitative Literature Review (SQLR) approach, this article consolidates studies on the job characteristics (top-down process of job design) and job crafting (bottom-up process ...
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Resource deprivation, decision stakes, and the selection of foreign players in the NBA draft Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-24
Jeffrey Q. Barden, Scott KozlakThis study examines the way resource endowments and decision stakes influence the managerial decision to select a foreign player during the NBA’s amateur draft. Building on evidence that general ma...
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College sport, events tourism and the demand for short-term rentals Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-23
Gidon S. Jakar, Fatemeh BineshUsing a central place theory approach, this study investigates the demand for short-term rental units and how it is impacted by external sport-related events (college football, university events, a...
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NFL fandom and unhealthy eating behavior: Exploring the role of introspective focus from a functionalist perspective of emotions Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-21
Yonghwan Chang, Ye Lei, Aaron C. MansfieldWe examine the effects of team identification on unhealthy eating behavior. Leveraging the functionalist perspective of emotions, we also examine how an introspective focus on particular affective ...
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A critical examination of how experiences shape board governance at the community level of sport Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-18
Shannon Kerwin, Dawn E. Trussell, Rob Cheevers, Talia Ritondo, Cole McCleanThe purpose of this research is to critically examine how individual board members’ behaviours and experiences shape board governance at the community level of sport. To serve the purpose, a qualit...
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Conditions and mechanisms of trust within boards of voluntary sport governing bodies Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-17
Marcel FahrnerTrust is considered beneficial for team work, as, for example, in boards of sport governing bodies (SGBs). However, strong trust within teams can also limit creativity and encourage corruption. Dea...
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Sport management or the management of sport? Reframing the theory debate Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-08
Erik L. Lachance, Ashley Thompson, Jordan T. Bakhsh, Milena M. ParentAs a field, sport management is arguably divided into two perspectives related to theory: sport management or the management of sport. This division hinders the development and credibility of the f...
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The psychological contract of women athletes in semi-professional team sports Sport Manag. Rev. (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-04
Tracy Taylor, Wendy O’Brien, Kristine Toohey, Clare HanlonWithin the dynamic landscape of women’s semi-professional and professional leagues, athletes and their employers are negotiating their employment relationship parameters. Positioning our research i...