Showing papers in "Sport Management Review in 2018"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reflect on whether eSports can be considered as sport based on evaluating five characteristics of sport and assessing them for eSports, and different opportunities how marketers and managers can attend to eSports are outlined.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for the inclusion of organized e-sports events and competitions within sport management vis-a-vis e-games meeting certain defining criteria of sport in general.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the relationship among perceived quality and service convenience on perceived value, satisfaction, and client loyalty in low-cost fitness centers and found that the importance of proper management of non-monetary sacrifices and perceived quality by the managers of these sport organizations could depend on factors of these emerging sport models.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of e-sports in sport management is discussed and the role that sport management can be seen as a form of sportification, and the association among sport and various outcomes including physical and psychological health, social well-being, sport consumption outcomes, and diversity and inclusion.

TL;DR: In this paper, sportification is defined as "the view, organize, or regulate a non-sport activity in such a way that it resembles a sport and allows a fair, pleasurable, and safe environment for individuals to compete and cooperate, and compare their performances to each other, and future and past performances".

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate factors leading fans to shorten or lengthen the lifespan of their social media content and find that those having positive experiences, sharing with a small audience, or displaying greater team identification were more likely to share their content.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how participatory research can be conceptualized and fostered in sport-for-development (SfD) contexts and suggest ways to promote participatory and activist research in SfD contexts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine challenges faced by SDP organizations when forming and sustaining inter-organizational partnerships across contexts and partnership types, and uncover strategies they have employed to overcome these challenges.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether and how human resources, financial, and structural capacities of sports clubs influence individual voluntary engagement in sports clubs and found that the organizational context is more relevant to volunteering of adult members than individual characteristics and equally relevant to parents of underage members.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the social capital building among active participants in running events and found that bonding capital is developed by all participants in the study while the bridging and linking capital varies by event type and involvement level.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a critical analysis of the ways in which clubs engage with inclusion policies in practice, concluding that the notion of inclusion presented in policy and practice, suggesting such imperatives do not encourage a holistic approach, suggesting that policies tend to encourage club to focus on narrow forms of participation that lead to competitive pathways and mirror the structure of mainstream sport.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used interviews and concept mapping to understand the meaning of team among fans of two separate teams and found that the meaning evolves due to environmental changes and personal experiences.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors empirically test a model of sport behavior that integrates both team identification and a network theory approach to understand attendance at intercollegiate ice hockey games, and the results from the model support the salience of both dimensions of the brand community triad, suggesting that understanding sport fan behaviour necessitates including both psychological and structural elements of behaviour.

TL;DR: In this paper, 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, recognizing the shared responsibility all entities with a vested interest in keeping the Earth habitable possess.

TL;DR: This paper found that fans behave in ways more consistent with the loss aversion hypothesis than the uncertainty of outcome hypothesis, with considerable interest in both home and away team absolute quality in both games.

TL;DR: This article examined sport participation from the perspective of the whole delivery system, focusing on a County Sport Partnership region in the UK, and found that sport participation has little impact on user participation or expression of health, wellbeing, and social capital.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ a matched-sample research approach to measure the impact of mega-sport events on the domestic perceptions of the host, and evaluate the domestic image impact of hosting the 2012 Summer Olympic Games for the city of London, and in doing so, whether any image transfer or co-branding processes occurred between the place and event.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on theory of planned behavior to explain smart-connected sports products and find that users' continuance intention has more insights in smart connected sports products.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the relationship between collective leadership and governance systems specifically within the non-profit sport organisation context, bringing together notions of collective board leadership and collaborative governance, and offer implications for future work in collective leadership for sport governance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether the cohort effect generated by the shared experience of hosting the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games during their youth can explain the increased sport participation of elderly Japanese.

TL;DR: In this paper, a dual-identification model was proposed to examine the formation of sport team brand equity in an Asia-based professional team sport setting, which revealed that marketplace characteristics (including group experience, salient experience, team history, and fan rituals) and brand-identified-related factors (including self-congruity and team brand prestige) were significantly related to identification with sport team and identification with sports team brand, respectively.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relative effects of game process and outcome on sport consumers' happiness depending on their level of team identification and found that sport consumers with high team identification exhibited greater degrees of happiness after recalling and imagining a boring win game compared to an exciting loss game.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined a unique type of small-scale event and defined and measured its social and charitable impacts as perceived by residents, and found that empathy for cause, which addressed a central social issue in the host community, had the strongest association with residents' perceptions of social impacts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the nature of interorganisational linkages in sport clusters, how linkages develop, and what are the organisational motivations for creating or joining linkages, and a multiple case study approach explores two sailing clusters in France and New Zealand.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the impact of various ownership structures on the realized management efficiency in maximizing profitability and national sporting success of professional European football clubs and found that majority-owned by private investors are less efficient than other clubs in French Ligue 1.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how employee citizenship behavior and deviance behavior influence consumer citizenship behaviour and participative behavior through consumers' perceived service quality and satisfaction with employees in a high-contact sport service context (i.e., multi-purpose fitness centers).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the outcomes and challenges of implementing community capacity building strategies in an American CSO, and draw on the empirical data to contribute to this theoretical conversation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) parents' experiences of community organized youth sport in Australia, Canada, and the United States.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify key emotions associated with professional sport team brands and develop a valid, reliable scale to measure the recall of these emotions, which consists of 24 emotions representing seven dimensions: connectedness, elation, competitiveness, surprise, anger, unhappiness, and worry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and validated the sport team personality scale (STPS) in a professional sport context and conducted a series of studies in the United States and United Kingdom with fans of the English Premier League, Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, the National Football League, and the National Hockey League.