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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"professional sport"”.
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Adaptation to Athletic Career Termination in Male Professional Sport
… of athletic career termination in male professional sport to examine: (1) the conceptualisation of the voluntariness of retirement and its impact on adaptation to athletic career termination, (2) the conceptualisation of the outcome of athletic career termination and (3) the temporal …
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Examining the factors influencing organizational creativity in professional sport organizations
… Godkin, Fleischman, & Kidwell, 2011). However, professional sport organizations enhance or hinder creativity for many reasons. For example, teams operate essentially in an oligarchy (Wolfe, Wright & Smart, 2006). Additionally, professional sport industry tend to be isomorphic (O’Brien & Slack, …
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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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The Development of a Scale to Measure Professional Sport Team Brand Associations
Although sport managers are beginning to view their teams, leagues, and properties as brands to be managed, the process by which brand associations are identified and measured is still in the developmental stage. At this point in time, only a small number of empirical research studies have examined …
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Mapping Belizean bonefish, permit, and tarpon fisheries and their threats
… mapping and ethnographic surveying of the professional sport-fishing guide community was completed. In addition to reporting the locations of BPT and their threats, this research uses high resolution satellite remote sensing (3m) to examine seagrass changes in a portion of the South Water …
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Who makes the game? Examining private ownership in professional sports
… team ownership in the major North American professional sports leagues. Despite drawbacks that are apparent to players, fans, media, and scholars, private ownership has been taken for granted as the natural way of organizing professional sport. This analysis argues that private ownership …
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A DIGITALIZATION OF SPORTS FAN’S EXPERIENCE: A CASE STUDY OF THE WNBA
The external shock of COVID-19 forced many professional sport organizations to cancel live sporting events, requiring sport organizations to engage consumers primarily through social media. This research uses the Sports Experience Design (SX) framework to explore how social media influenced the …
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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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Analyzing Sponsorship Outcomes across the Sports Industry
… across three different sponsorship categories (a professional sport organization, a nonprofit organization and a cause-related organization). Data were collected using an online survey distributed across ten different classes at the University of Minnesota (N = 191). Participants were randomly …
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Public Perceptions of Credibility of Male and Female Sportscasters
… involvement of women athletes in all levels of sport, the opportunity to participate is not enough to guarantee equality in the field of athletics. In society, one must have a voice that is not only heard but is considered credible. This voice is considered sport media, and the right of women to …
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EXPLORING THE CONTRIBUTION OF PERSONAL QUALITIES TO THE EFFECTIVE DELIVERY OF SPORT PSYCHOLOGY SERVICE PROVISION
Previous literature within applied sport psychology offers little detailed discussion regarding the personal qualities of sport psychology practitioners and the impact of these qualities on practice. This is despite the development of models of professional philosophy that advocate the person …
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“WE ARE JUST EVERYDAY PEOPLE AND WOMEN”: AN EXAMINATION OF SELF-PRESENTATION OF NBA WIVES AND THE TWO-PERSON CAREER ON INSTAGRAM
The professional sport career has been identified as a two-person career (Dixon, Bruening, Mazerolle, Davis, Crowder, & Lorsbach, 2006; Papanek, 1973), in which the demands of the sport industry require two people to contribute to the career in order for the paid employee to be successful …
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Talent identification and development in South African professional football – a coach perspective
The growing complexity and competitiveness of professional sport have underscored the importance of Talent Identification and Development (TID) in football. This study examines the TID frameworks employed by South Africa's top professional male football clubs through the perspectives of coaches and …
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On Board for Brands: Understanding the Motivating Influences of Sponsored Female Snowboarders
… sponsorship have been extensively researched in sport marketing, little attention has been given to the athlete’s perspective (Dumont, 2016). This study sought to address this gap by exploring the motivations and decision-making factors that drive female athletes’ sponsorship agreements, …
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Speedway Racing in England 1928–1965: Communities, Gender and Modernity
In 1928 a new sport was introduced into England from Australia which, in the following decades, became so popular that it was regarded by many as second only to football in its following. In 1949 it recorded over 12.5 million attendances whilst 93,000 attended the World Championship at Wembley in …
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Gender and personality differences in coping in sport
[Introduction]:Inability to cope with stress in sport has been associated with sport withdrawal (Klint & Weis, 1986; Smith, 1986), decreased performance (Lazarus, 2000), and athletes not being able to pursue careers in professional sport (Holt & Dunn, 2004). It is therefore crucial to both …
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A Study of Retirement Transition and Fandom of Retired Hockey Players
… and explore the retirement transition of professional men’s hockey players. Specifically, the research examined the role athlete identity theory has this important period of their lives (Brewer et al., 1993). Previous research has heavily ignored studying former professional players and …
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Near to the Green: career decisions in professional golf
Professional golfers are frequently in the media spotlight as they compete in high profile tournaments around the world. Behind this „shop window‟ there is a vast industry in which several thousand „golf professionals‟, members of the Professional Golfers‟ Association [PGA] are engaged, delivering …
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Do Professional Sports Franchises And Professional Sports Stadiums Have Any Effect On Employment In A City?
… of state and local governments in the professional sports industry over the last quarter of a century, the debate has arisen over whether the luring of a professional sports franchise or the construction of a stadium for a professional sports franchise provides any type of significant …
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