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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Sport Management"”.
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The impact of construed external image factors on sport management student perceptions of pride in a sport employer.
… prestige have a positive and direct effect on sport management students' levels of perceived pride in being employed by a professional sport organization. Pride represents an important outcome to explore in sport-based studies because employees who demonstrate pride in the organization …
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A case study of the curriculum logic of a South African university degree programme in sports management and its appropriateness to the labour market
Over the past 50 years, sport has undergone a process of commercialisation and professionalisation, and has become “big business”. It now requires adequately trained professionals to manage the daily operations of sport businesses. The question in which this research originated was: are …
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Exploring the Role of Internships in Personal and Professional Development
Internships serve as an instrumental tool in many sport management students’ trajectory to becoming impactful employees and leaders in the sport industry. The purpose of this sequential mixed-methods study was to cultivate a better understanding of the development that occurs for students as they …
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The Experiential Aspects of Sport Stadiums: An Examination of Emotion and Memory
Sport stadiums have become important municipal and cultural landmarks within American society. Although their primary function is to serve as the spaces within which our favorite athletes and teams compete, we often imbue stadiums with a level of significance beyond their primary function. As …
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Corona crisis effects on Icelandic sport clubs in terms of human resource, finance and structural capacity
Managing a sport club has become more complex over the years and no longer realistic to put all the work on volunteers. Sport clubs are having troubles getting the financial and human resources they need, to serve their members. Troubles with financial capacity can have negative effects on human …
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Organizational Membership and the Formation of Dissonant Identities
… Findings from this study contribute to both sport management and organizational literature by empirically demonstrating the effects of and the processes through which an organizational identity might create a pathway for marginalized groups to adapt previously dissonant identities. It …
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Pricing Participant Sport: The Pricing Development Process in Long-Distance Running Events
… process. This research contributes to sport management by providing deeper understanding of how participant sport, specifically long-distance running events, is priced and how pricing decisions influence consumer behaviors. Results additionally provide practical insight for running …
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The Olympic Games and Business Enterprises
Research into sports mega-events, of which the Olympics is the modern archetype, has often focused on the macro-economic and regional economic effects of hosting the Games. This research suggests that the local promoters and organisers of the event seldom, if ever, fulfil their promises. Drawing …
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Industry Digital Transformation and the Role of Industry Platforms and Public Entrepreneurship: The Digital Transformation of Australian Sport
The primary purpose of the sport industry is to create and deliver sport experiences. Sport experiences are co-created activities in which multiple actors coordinate their resources, products, and services to deliver an experience for the ultimate benefit of the sport consumer. In a complex …
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An Analysis of Risk Management Practices and Legal Considerations in South Korean Club Sports
In light of the fact that club sport participation in South Korea is increasing in an unprecedented pace, the primary objective of the study was to establish the management status of sports clubs. Specifically, this study investigated a broad spectrum of issues concerning safety issues with regards …
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A Critical Analysis of Gender-based Violence Training Sessions for University Men’s Team Sport
… between participation in men’s university sport and reports of gender-based violence including sexual violence perpetration, as well as misogynistic beliefs, views, and attitudes. To address this significant issue on university campuses, some universities have begun developing educational …
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“We are a team of leaders”: Relational leadership in professional sport
Existing sport management research typically explores leadership from an entity perspective. The entity perspective studies leadership through distinct entities, such as leaders and followers (Uhl-Bien, 2006). This view is limited as it ignores variabilities like context, emergence, and dynamic …
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An Exploration of Challenges Facing Division III Athletic Directors
… programs competitive, personnel issues, and time management. Balancing academics and athletics, risk management issues, and dealing with parents of athletes were challenges experienced by Division III ADs to a lesser degree. Additional challenges that respondents reported included managing …
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Architects of Community: An Examination of How Interscholastic Sport Coaches Promote a Sense of Community
This study examined how interscholastic sport coaches promote a sense of community (SOC) within their programs and identified the strategies employed to achieve this outcome. While research demonstrates that sport participation facilitates SOC, limited evidence exists regarding the specific …
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Governance strategies towards organising for action sports: A national structure for New Zealand skateboarding
… the processes and politics involved in the sportisation and institutionalisation of skateboarding in Aotearoa, New Zealand. In 2016, the IOC announced that skateboarding would debut at the Tokyo 2020 Games, and its governance was given to the ISF World Skate (i.e. a partnership between the …
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The dynamic competitive balance ratio as a new method of understanding competitive balance and fan attendance
… of outcome in attracting spectators to live sporting events. In examining the economics of sport leagues, both researchers came upon this “the uncertainty of outcome hypothesis” (UOH), which is the general premise that fans would rather see a contest in which teams are evenly paired with one …
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The Role of Sport in City Branding: A Case Study of Ottawa
… of human talent. That high-performance and mega sport events (e.g., IOC Olympic Games, FIFA World Cup, and F1 Grands Prix) have often been used to provide such points of difference is very well documented. However, the use of other, less high profile, forms of community-based recreational sport …
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Understanding television demand for National Football League: factors influencing sport demand across gender and age cohorts
As viewership of sports have become an indispensable part of American culture, understanding the demand for spectator sports has become an essential branch of economic study. Gender and age are two vital demographics that have been addressed in many prior sport management studies. Although previous …
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Organizational Governance of Event Impacts
This study explored the governance of event legacy and/or leveraging. More broadly, this project examined the specific organizational forms that are responsible for delivering event legacy and/or leveraging strategies. This was done using a combination of organizational theories and theories of …
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