Showing papers in "Sport Management Review in 2015"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the existing body of knowledge of social media in the field of sport management from a service-dominant logic perspective, with an emphasis on relationship marketing.

TL;DR: This article provided a multilevel examination of available scholarship that contributes to understanding why there are so few women in leadership positions within sport, including stereotyping of leaders, issues of discrimination, and gendered organizational cultures.

TL;DR: The 2012 London Olympic Games were heralded as the “Year of the Woman” as every delegation sent a female athlete to compete in the games, and nearly 45% of all athletes were women as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the efficacy of sport to contribute to the process of community capacity building using seven established community capacity dimensions and find that sport has demonstrated efficacy in building local skills, knowledge and resources, increasing social cohesion, facilitating structures and mechanisms for community dialog, leadership development, and encouraging civic participation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined participation trends in leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) in Australia over a decade, for those aged 15 years and older, through the lens of sport and recreation (S&R).

TL;DR: In this paper, the carbon footprint of spectator and team travel was analyzed at small-scale varsity sports events held at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and the authors found that UBC spectators had a smaller footprint than teams on a per person basis but a larger overall carbon footprint.

TL;DR: It is suggested that concerted efforts to focus on the hedonic feelings and social aspects can potentially lead to increased sport participation and holistic health.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the experiences and perceptions of athletes who have committed anti-doping rule violations and found that moral arguments were perceived as the most effective deterrents to doping.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present four case studies of sport programs in prisons across Australia and investigate program outcomes, design, and delivery in order to investigate the role of sport in enacting social change.

TL;DR: A systematic review of organizational culture in sport can be found in this paper, where the authors highlighted the variety of ways that culture has been studied in sport and the range of interests explored in the research, including informing athlete development, the link between the strength of culture and organisational performance and understanding the forces driving organisational diversity.

TL;DR: In this paper, a sport tourism network in a German community and its surrounding area was investigated to explore the structure of interorganizational cooperation and demonstrate the value of social network analysis methods.

TL;DR: A review of the emerging academic literature on the role of supporters can be found in this article, which suggests that the evidence to support a case in favour of increased supporter involvement in football governance is limited.

TL;DR: The Managing sport for social change special issue of sport management review brings together a collection of conceptual advances, empirical research papers and teaching case studies from a range of social and cultural perspectives.

TL;DR: This paper examined the impact of a sport-for-development initiative, Street Soccer USA, on one of its most successful participants in order to understand her experiences, expectations, and motivations towards becoming a cause champion and social entrepreneur and continuing her activism.

TL;DR: In this article, a sport-for-development event was investigated to understand how a sport for development event can be leveraged socially, and if event organizers created the best possible experiences for homeless participants through the creation of communitas and thus, social capital.

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of the landscape of child protection and safeguarding in sport can be found in this article, where 19 newly commissioned chapters (plus a foreword, introduction and conclusion) are presented.

TL;DR: The authors examined manager and staff perspectives on their local sport and recreation department's role, organizational practices, and challenges faced when developing and sustaining a wellness program for immigrants that received a program excellence award from a provincial recreation association in Canada.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the potential for social media use to mediate the effects of physical activity involvement on (1) the level of regular exercise behavior, and (2) social life satisfaction.

TL;DR: The authors used qualitative interviews and participant observation to explore the politics of surf tourism recreational capacity management in the Mentawais, and the wider implications for Mentawaian host communities' involvement in the surf tourism economy.

TL;DR: In this paper, an ethnographic study among individuals in their second year of tailgating at American football games was conducted to examine whether group leaders were able to empower their followers and alleviate the Achilles heel of scale-free networks, whereby individual group members increased their involvement and loyalty towards the group itself and the larger brand.

TL;DR: The authors conducted qualitative research with sport fans to understand how multiple group identities influence fan behaviours in response to team performance and found that fans (1) BIRG and blast for an enhanced sense of inclusiveness and distinctiveness, and (2) possess multiple, ordinarily inclusive group identities, which converge into a highly exclusive social identity structure immediately before, during, and after games against rivals.

TL;DR: In this paper, sport policy factors that lead to international success are examined at a sport-specific level, and the most significant contribution of this paper rests on the emergence of two contextual themes, namely culture and commercial environment, which help explain the context within which tennis operates.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the long-term commitment found in a whole community of volunteers and to explain this pattern of collective volunteering not in terms of individual motivations but in a broader social process.

TL;DR: In this article, a mixed methods study investigated the social capital development of alumni of a college service learning through sport course and found that the intentional design, structure, and management aspects of the course and program provided opportunities for social capital.

TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of board strategic balance is proposed to understand how creating and maintaining equilibrium in these roles and functions is managed by sport boards, which can guide future governance research.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine sport participation from an environmental perspective by considering the dynamic role of the sportscape (built-form and supporting infrastructure) in enabling, facilitating and promoting youth sport participation.

TL;DR: This paper found that consumers expect a higher standard of advertising from banks as compared to beer companies and that this would be reflected in more negative attitudes towards banks that engage in questionable promotional practices.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of multiple dimensions of organizational justice (i.e., distributive, procedural, interactional, and informational) on the perception of intragroup conflict.

TL;DR: In this paper, the garbage can model is used to grasp these decision-making processes theoretically and access them empirically, under the assumption of bounded rationality, and an in-depth analysis of recruitment practices was conducted in nine selected sport clubs.

TL;DR: In this paper, a seven-item scale was used to measure the emotional attachment between a fan and his/her favorite team in a sport team scale, and a construct validity test provided quantitative verification of an apparent hierarchy of emotional attachment dimensions where those with higher investment scores appear to place a higher (somewhat irrational) value on team success.