Showing papers in "Sport Management Review in 2017"

TL;DR: The field of sport-for-development (SFD) has experienced significant growth and increased academic rigor over the past 15 years, as sport management scholars have started to critically investigate and evaluate SFD programs, they have in turn contributed to the future design and improvement of SFD initiatives that today are more strategically planned and pedagogically sound than ever before.

TL;DR: In this article, a survey of existing research on volunteerism and volunteer management in sport from individual, institutional, multi-level, and policy perspectives is presented, focusing on topics such as motivation, commitment, and satisfaction, while consequences of volunteerism have attracted less research.

TL;DR: In this paper, a panel of 17 academic scholars examined sport consumer research published in sport management review as an exemplar, and then, more broadly, how to enhance sport consumers' research and identify future trends in the sport industry.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an integrative conceptual framework that draws on multiple theories and bodies of literature to understand the role of consumer experience quality in sport consumer decision-making, and specify the conditions under which sport consumers are more likely to be satisfied with the core sport product and ancillary services.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Instagram accounts of six purposefully selected running brands were examined to determine to what extent brands utilised user-generated content on their Instagram accounts and whether differences existed in audience engagement based on the type of content posted.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the effect that participating in extracurricular sporting activities has on academic performance among students in higher education and found that participation in formal sporting activities is associated with higher grades among students at a Spanish University over the period 2008-2014.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored how fans of a new team, with an overwhelming loss to win ratio, maintain a positive social identity and found that fans use social creativity and social mobility strategies to help preserve a positive and distinctive group identity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the influence of passion and pride on employees of professional sport organizations and found that passionate and pride play an important role influencing commonly-assessed workplace attitudes and behaviors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined organizational hybridity and its applicability in sport for development and peace (SDP) and identified and examined four theoretical types of hybrids in the SDP context: differentiated, symbolic, integrated, and dysfunctional.

TL;DR: A special issue on contemporary qualitative research methods in sport management includes conceptual advances in community-based research approaches, Indigenous methodologies, participatory action research, auto-ethnographies, and narratives as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors adopt a process perspective on sport entrepreneurship in the fitness industry, utilizing phenomenological inquiry into the entrepreneurial lives of eleven fitness entrepreneurs to reveal how fitness entrepreneurs strategize and pursue competitive advantage in a non-traditional industry.

TL;DR: The origins and history of Australian sport can be found in this paper, where the authors discuss the role of government systems in sport in Australia, including the Olympic and Commonwealth Games Movements.

TL;DR: In this paper, a pre-post survey and SEM-based research was conducted to examine individuals' psychological experiences in sport event viewing and its link to well-being, finding that hedonic, eudaimonic, and social values experienced by sport event viewers fully or partially (moderated by sport fanship and media consumption setting) led to wellbeing improvement.

TL;DR: The authors examined how dominant sport organizations formulate defensive narratives to address contestations that may threaten institutional arrangements within a given field and provided further insight into the process of message framing as institutional maintenance work.

TL;DR: In this paper, an autoethnographic methodological approach was used to examine my basketball officiating experience as a female basketball official over the course of 250 games and compared to sport-specific feminist auto-ethnographies.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study was built using 6382 pages of documents (e.g., meeting minutes, memos, newspaper articles, and annual reports) and 55 interviews, and analyzed using social network analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the effect of income and other socioeconomic determinants on the household time and money that is spent on sports participation in Flanders, and found that income has a positive effect on both time, money and sports participation, although differences are found between the 13 most practiced sports activities.

TL;DR: Farrelly et al. as discussed by the authors argue the importance of talanoa as a culturally-appropriate contemporary qualitative research approach when working with Pasifika people or Pasifiika issues.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the perceptions and strategies of corporate sponsors established in France and involved in sport-related corporate social responsibility (S-CSR) based on the theoretical framework of strategic sensemaking.

TL;DR: In this article, the combination of traditional research methods and innovative approaches to qualitative inquiry within two distinct projects that were funded under a single sport-for-development (SFD) program is discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a collaborative self-study research project examining the influence of wearable fitness technology on physical activity is presented, focusing on the benefits, challenges, and opportunities associated with employing this underutilized qualitative method in sport management research.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effect of public funds on professional team sports in Denmark and found that the use of public money to directly or indirectly subsidise local professional team sport clubs (PTSCs) is often seen as warranted due to the PTSCs' positive effects on local economic growth or (inbound) municipal migration.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the evolution of sport communication research through social network analysis (SNA), which offers a visual display of research collaborations and helps identify areas for growth among researchers, academic institutions, and topics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the use of reflexive practice as a means of self-study in community sport management research and explore how it enriched the process and outcomes of the project, and explain how it informed their understanding of researchers as instruments of research and agents of change within the research process.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the value of auto-ethnography as a qualitative methodology, document the current literature using autoethnographic approaches, and explore the possibilities for future research in the field of sport management.

TL;DR: In this article, the benefits and challenges of using stories as a means of data re-presentation are discussed, and the contributions stories make to research in sport management are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the experiences of local sport authorities with people in poverty, and identified barriers and facilitators for investing in the inclusion of this social group in sport.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used autoethnography to examine the SU Men's Basketball fandom and their reaction to sanctions imposed on the program in 2015, and found that SU fans relied on multiple emotion-focused coping strategies over a one-year period to deal with identity threat until a series of positive team-related events restored their identity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the most important thing to offer rally fans is not technical perfection and sanitized images, but explicit storytelling elements that are authentic, mirroring what rallying is all about.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors extended previous work based on Rogers' diffusion of innovation theory and used an historical research approach as a means to understand what happens beyond the initial point of adoption with respect to the total process of innovation diffusion.