Sport Management Review
1998 - 2025
Continuation of Sport Management Review. Current editor(s): Sheranne Fairley From Taylor & Francis Journals Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst (chris.longhurst@tandf.co.uk). Access Statistics for this journal.
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Volume 28, issue 1, 2025
- Experience is all you need: a large language model application of fine-tuned GPT-3.5 and RoBERTa for aspect-based sentiment analysis of college football stadium reviews pp. 1-25

- Tyreal Yizhou Qian, Weizhe Li, Hua Gong, Chad Seifried and Chenglong Xu
- Environment as a vulnerability factor for doping: a qualitative examination of Indian track and field athletes’ hurdles to compete clean pp. 26-50

- Rekha Janarthanan, Jules Woolf, Andrew Bloodworth and Andrea Petróczi
- Empirically testing for niche sports pp. 51-72

- Hunter Fujak, Carl Driesener and David Shilbury
- Using feminist critical management studies to examine LGBTQ+ women’s experiences of inclusion and exclusion in rugby pp. 73-96

- Sally Shaw
- Public perception of esports: an examination of esports image and genre differences pp. 97-120

- Jongho Kim, Kihan Kim, Hansol Kim and Shanshan Li
- Market demand for metaverse-based sporting events: a mixed-methods approach pp. 121-147

- Sam S. Chen and James J. Zhang
- Leadership development: relationality and temporality in professional sport pp. 148-172

- Lewis Whales, Stephen Frawley, Adam Cohen and Natalia Nikolova
- Pollination, cultivation, and perennialization: creating the amateur logic in collegiate sport pp. 173-199

- Calvin Nite and Marvin Washington
Volume 27, issue 5, 2024
- Exploring the nexus of digital technology and organizational change in non-profit sport organizations pp. 661-681

- Ashley Thompson, Michael L. Naraine and Milena M. Parent
- Mixed methods in sport management: A review and directions for future research pp. 682-703

- Jordan T. Bakhsh, Jonathan Robertson and Katie Rowe
- “Activism is welcome as long as it’s peaceful”: athletic administrators’ perspectives on college athlete activism via stakeholder theory pp. 704-723

- Samuel H. Schmidt, Yannick Kluch and Evan Brody
- Will event inspiration and leveraging improve sport participation among the games makers? An examination on volunteers of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic games pp. 724-753

- Xiaoyan Xing, Shushu Chen and Laurence Chalip
- Perceptions of athletes with mental health conditions and sponsor responses: a consumer perspective pp. 754-778

- Dae Hee Kwak and Namkyeong Jang
- Community-level implicit biases against LGBTQ+ people predict WNBA attendance pp. 779-792

- George B. Cunningham
- Data-driven message optimization in dynamic sports media: an artificial intelligence approach to predict consumer response pp. 793-816

- Elisa Herold, Aaditya Singh, Boris Feodoroff and Christoph Breuer
- Black male college athletes’ self-schemata and (Un)critical consciousness pp. 817-842

- Jonathan E. Howe and Joseph N. Cooper
Volume 27, issue 4, 2024
- “It’s given us a much wider perspective”: exploring the domestication of design thinking into sport management practice pp. 481-501

- Greg Joachim, Nico Schulenkorf, Katie Schlenker, Stephen Frawley and Adam Cohen
- Expanding sport management toward management through sport: the promise of company sport in organizations pp. 502-523

- Minjung Kim, Brent D. Oja, Calvin Nite and Christos Anagnostopoulos
- Social inequalities and (re)production in the new youth sports economy: examining the case of the Junior Tour Powered by Under Armour pp. 524-543

- Matt Hawzen, Ryan King-White, David L. Andrews and Brett Geaman
- Categorizing engagement behavior in sport brand communities – an empirical study informed by social practice theory pp. 544-571

- Pascal Stegmann, Tim Ströbel and Herbert Woratschek
- Strategy practitioners and the procedural legitimacy of strategic planning in nonprofit community sport pp. 572-594

- Kristen A. Morrison and Katie E. Misener
- Watching sport enhances well-being: evidence from a multi-method approach pp. 595-619

- Keita Kinoshita, Kento Nakagawa and Shintaro Sato
- Professional women footballers’ stories of marketing portrayals and sponsorship: “I just had to feel grateful for what I’ve been given” pp. 620-639

- Laura Harris and Dawn E. Trussell
- How does a “neutral” rule become a systemic barrier to racial justice? Human rights activism, International Olympic Committee Rule 50, and the neutrality myth in racialized organizations pp. 640-660

- Yannick Kluch, Debbie Sharnak, Scott Brooks, Stacey M. Alvarez Flores and Anthony Weems
Volume 27, issue 3, 2024
- It’s all relative: examining the influence of social identity on sport-based youth development pp. 323-343

- Wonju Lee, Gareth J. Jones and Christine Wegner
- You do not suddenly become safe on your 18th birthday: managing safeguarding cases involving adult athletes in the United Kingdom pp. 344-364

- Olivia Garrod and Daniel Rhind
- The challenges of harmonising anti-doping policy implementation pp. 365-386

- Daniel Read, James Skinner, Aaron CT Smith, Daniel Lock and Maylin Stanic
- Gender differences in lead executive compensation: evidence from intercollegiate athletics pp. 387-408

- Tyler Skinner and Steven Salaga
- Operational quality in youth sport clubs: towards a conceptual model pp. 409-431

- Margot Ricour, Veerle De Bosscher and Jo Van Hoecke
- Promoting sport organisations inclusivity initiatives: tailored message frames and audience selection to drive change and attitude towards team pp. 432-454

- Rory Mulcahy, David Fleischman, Peter English, Emma Florence, Retha Scheepers and Malin Sofia Roennberg
- Perceived event impacts of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on residents’ eudaimonic well-being: a longitudinal study of within-person changes and relationships pp. 455-479

- Keita Kinoshita, Satoshi Usami and Hirotaka Matsuoka
Volume 27, issue 2, 2024
- Resource deprivation, decision stakes, and the selection of foreign players in the NBA draft pp. 175-196

- Jeffrey Q. Barden and Scott Kozlak
- A critical examination of how experiences shape board governance at the community level of sport pp. 197-212

- Shannon Kerwin, Dawn E. Trussell, Rob Cheevers, Talia Ritondo and Cole McClean
- NFL fandom and unhealthy eating behavior: Exploring the role of introspective focus from a functionalist perspective of emotions pp. 213-233

- Yonghwan Chang, Ye Lei and Aaron C. Mansfield
- College sport, events tourism and the demand for short-term rentals pp. 234-253

- Gidon S. Jakar and Fatemeh Binesh
- Unlocking the power of job design in sports: a systematic review and future research agenda pp. 254-279

- Mohsen Loghmani, Popi Sotiriadou and Jason Doyle
- A dual account of how excitement impacts risk-taking: Evidence from the National Hockey League’s 50-50 raffle pp. 280-299

- Alexander Davidson, Matthew D. Meng, Scott Tainsky and Mitchell C. Olsen
- Exploring perceptions of performance support team effectiveness in elite sport pp. 300-321

- Perry Stewart, David Fletcher, Rachel Arnold and Desmond McEwan
Volume 27, issue 1, 2024
- When feeling is for pursuing: exploring the moderating role of spectatorship locus of control on fans’ emotion-directed pursuit of consumption goals pp. 1-22

- Yonghwan Chang and Matthew Katz
- Research on human rights and large-scale sport events from 1990 to 2022: a scoping review pp. 23-44

- Stacy-Lynn Sant, Christine Maleske and Kathryn Vanderboll
- Gender information and perceived quality: An experiment with professional soccer performance pp. 45-66

- Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez, Helmut Dietl, David Berri and Cornel Nesseler
- Who doesn’t like sport? A taxonomy of non-fans pp. 67-89

- Heath McDonald, Jason Pallant, Daniel C. Funk and Thilo Kunkel
- Sport management or the management of sport? Reframing the theory debate pp. 90-110

- Erik L. Lachance, Ashley Thompson, Jordan T. Bakhsh and Milena M. Parent
- The psychological contract of women athletes in semi-professional team sports pp. 111-129

- Tracy Taylor, Wendy O’Brien, Kristine Toohey and Clare Hanlon
- Conditions and mechanisms of trust within boards of voluntary sport governing bodies pp. 130-149

- Marcel Fahrner
- Sport teams’ promotion of plant-based food consumption among fans pp. 150-174

- Lennart Pape, Joerg Koenigstorfer and Jonathan Casper
Volume 26, issue 5, 2023
- Contexts shaping the development and success of elite sport systems: a scoping review pp. 649-676

- Ralph Ramos, Veerle De Bosscher, Aurélie Pankowiak and Christian Wisdom Valleser
- Why don’t more college athletes engage in activism? A multilevel analysis of barriers to activism in the hegemonic arena of intercollegiate sport pp. 677-697

- Yannick Kluch
- Continuing or withdrawing from endurance sport events under environmental uncertainty: athletes’ decision-making pp. 698-719

- Qi Peng, Chunbin Liu, Nicolas Scelles and Yuhei Inoue
- Coping with losses: Need unfulfillment, coping strategies and temporal well-being of sport fans pp. 720-743

- Jeeyoon Kim and YuKyoum Kim
- The evolution of psychological involvement and customer loyalty: a longitudinal analysis of fitness facility members pp. 744-765

- Masayuki Yoshida, Mikihiro Sato, Anthony D. Pizzo and Rieko Kuramasu
- Editorial: 25th Anniversary Special Collection pp. 766-768

- Sheranne Fairley
- “He ringa raupā - Calloused hands”: Negotiating the intersections and responsibilities as sport practitioners and academics in Aotearoa pp. 769-787

- Farah R. Palmer, Sarah I. Leberman and Bevan Erueti
- A bad bet for sports fans: the case for ending the “gamblification” of sport pp. 788-812

- Nerilee Hing, Matthew Rockloff and Matthew Browne
- Advancing sport ecology research on sport and the natural environment pp. 813-833

- Brian P. McCullough
Volume 26, issue 4, 2023
- Rage against the machine: investigating conspiracy theories about the video assistant referee on Twitter during the 2018 FIFA World Cup pp. 495-516

- Paul Bertin, Sylvain Delouvée, Kathleen McColl and Jan-Willem van Prooijen
- Motivational system approach to understand ad processing following various game outcomes pp. 517-539

- Minkyo Lee, Robert F. Potter and Jingjing Han
- Relationship marketing: a strategy for acquiring long-term strategic sponsorships in the disability sport sector pp. 540-560

- Nina Siegfried
- The Impact of a Life-Disrupting Threat on Team Identity pp. 561-581

- Katherine Sveinson, Elizabeth B. Delia, Aaron C. Mansfield and Emma Calow
- Sport and social entrepreneurship in the base-of-the-pyramid: The institutional work of refugees and a refugee-led organization in Uganda pp. 582-606

- Mitchell McSweeney
- The perceived financial situation of nonprofit sports clubs explained by objective financial measures pp. 607-627

- Svenja Feiler, Dennis Coates, Pamela Wicker and Christoph Breuer
- The temporal and spatial relationships between professional sport events and reported vehicular crashes: an analysis of Cleveland, Ohio pp. 628-648

- Gidon Jakar, Kiernan Gordon and Qian He
Volume 26, issue 3, 2023
- How Do Elite Sport Organizations Frame Diversity and Inclusion?A Critical Race Analysis pp. 339-360

- Ashley Gardner, Adam Love and Steven Waller
- Sport diplomacy: an integrative review pp. 361-382

- Verity Postlethwaite, Claire Jenkin and Emma Sherry
- The benefits and challenges of shared leadership in sport for development and peace collaboratives pp. 383-404

- Seungmin Kang and Per G. Svensson
- “My definition of community is community, and their definition is more around fan engagement”: balancing business and social logics of professional sport teams’ community activities pp. 405-425

- Jonathan Robertson, Adam Karg, Katie Rowe and Katherine Raw
- Understanding experiences with capacity building in the sport for development context pp. 426-447

- Christine E. Wegner, Patti Millar, Trevor Bopp and Shannon Kerwin
- Looking beyond performance: understanding service quality through the importance-performance analysis pp. 448-470

- Thomas J. Aicher, Bob Heere, Michael A. Odio and Jeffery M. Ferguson
- Do consumers care about credibility? Examining corporate credibility and price on sport ticket purchase decision making pp. 471-493

- Koo Yul Kim, Colin Lopez and Joris Drayer
Volume 26, issue 2, 2023
- Uncovering the knowledge structure of the fan-sporting object relationship: a bibliometric analysis pp. 181-202

- Guninder Pal Singh, Anirban Chakraborty and Swapan Deep Arora
- Leveraging sport events for the promotion of human rights in host communities: diffusion of anti-trafficking campaigns at Super Bowl LIV pp. 203-223

- Stacy-Lynn Sant, Christine Maleske, Wenche Wang and Elizabeth J. King
- A big data analysis of social media coverage of athlete protests pp. 224-245

- Wenche Wang and Stacy-Lynn Sant
- Incivility and psychological safety in youth sport: the reciprocal effects and its impact on well-being and social outcomes pp. 246-270

- Keita Kinoshita and Shintaro Sato
- Co-creation in youth sport development: examining (mis)alignment between coaches and parents pp. 271-292

- Edward Horne, Leeann Lower-Hoppe and B. Christine Green
- Operational crisis communication management: a content analysis of FIFA’s communication during Covid-19 pp. 293-314

- Argyro Elisavet Manoli and Michael Anagnostou
- The impact of sport organization employees’ justice perceptions on organizational citizenship and dysfunctional behavior: the affect-based model pp. 315-338

- Sangchul Park, Calvin Nite and Hyun-Woo Lee
Volume 26, issue 1, 2023
- Disability inclusion in beach precincts: beach for all abilities – a community development approach through a social relational model of disability lens pp. 1-23

- Simon Darcy, Hazel Maxwell, Melissa Edwards and Barbara Almond
- Development of a national sport integrity system pp. 24-47

- Lisa A. Kihl
- Women’s professional sport leagues: a systematic review and future directions for research pp. 48-71

- Alana Thomson, Michelle Hayes, Clare Hanlon, Kristine Toohey and Tracy Taylor
- Constraints to leveraging regular season sport team events pp. 72-92

- Vitor Sobral, Sheranne Fairley and Danny O’Brien
- Word-of-mouth effectiveness in new fan acquisition: a mediating role of resident prototypicality pp. 93-113

- Akira Asada and Yong Jae Ko
- Toward a better understanding of core and peripheral market demand for women’s spectator sports: An importance-performance map analysis approach based on gender pp. 114-134

- Tyreal Yizhou Qian, Robbie Matz, Lei Luo and Claire C. Zvosec
- The influence of team-member exchange on turnover intention among student-athletes: the mediating role of interpersonal self-efficacy and the moderating role of seniority pp. 135-155

- Ray Tak-yin Hui, Weisheng Chiu, Doyeon Won and Jung-Sup Bae
- Stimulating the adoption of green practices by professional football organisations: a focus on stakeholders’ pressures and expected benefits pp. 156-180

- Niccolò Maria Todaro, Brian McCullough and Tiberio Daddi
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