Sport Management Review

1998 - 2025

Continuation of Sport Management Review.

Current editor(s): Sheranne Fairley

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Volume 28, issue 4, 2025

Signaling a commitment to diversity: examining the intersection of sport team owner race and diversity, equity, and inclusion pledges pp. 625-649

Xiaochen Zhou, Minkyo Lee, Yiran Su and Dae Hee Kwak

Race and institutionalism: how race shapes organizational behavior in sport pp. 650-675

Ajhanai C.I. Keaton and Charles D.T. Macaulay

The dark side of social innovation: integrating a digital application for sport-for-development programmes pp. 676-704

Sophia Harith, Mitchell McSweeney, Annick Willem, Mathieu Winand and Mathieu Marlier

Succession planning in sport for development and peace pp. 705-728

King Saah and Per G. Svensson

A conceptual framework for understanding brand connection to sport mascots pp. 729-752

Yong Jae Ko, Lydia Yun and Philip Kang

The impact of socioeconomic background on the timing of long-term contracts in Major League Baseball pp. 753-769

Richard J Paulsen and Michael Sinkey

The role of identity on receptivity to environmental messaging and its impact on fandom pp. 770-795

Brian P. McCullough, Galen Trail, Timothy Kellison and Jessica R. Murfree

Unveiling the emotional edge: how fans’ emotional attachment influences the relationships between fanship, fandom, subjective well-being, and attitudinal loyalty pp. 796-822

Giorgio Portaluri, Daniel Lock, Yuhei Inoue, Rita Mura and Francesca Vicentini

Discursive delegitimisation of athlete activism: a study of the Australian football team pp. 823-850

Francis O’Neill, Ashleigh-Jane Thompson, Geoff Dickson and Tim Ströbel

Volume 28, issue 3, 2025

The role of brokerage in green partnership formation in professional sport pp. 397-422

Yiying Chen and Kathryn Heinze

Queering inclusion: the experiences of LGBTQ+ women in rugby in Aotearoa/New Zealand pp. 423-444

Sally Shaw

Long-distance brand relationship marketing in sport: determining factors for satellite fans’ share of wallet and time pp. 445-475

Yiran Su, Matthew Katz and Jason Doyle

Initiate, adopt, implement, and transfer: exploring the innovation process undergone by mega-sport event organizing committees pp. 476-497

Kristina Hoff and Becca Leopkey

The opportunities and challenges facing participation in different types of women’s football in England pp. 498-522

Paul Downward and Cristina Muniz

Exploring the determinants of women football players’ Instagram popularity pp. 523-548

Nataliya Bredikhina, Thilo Kunkel, Heather Kennedy and Francesca Fumagalli

How does gender diversity impact board performance? Insights from Australian sport pp. 549-574

Joshua McLeod, Pamm Phillips, Katie Rowe, Sarah Reddan, Katherine Raw and Steve Swanson

“If you build it, they will buy it”: exploring consumer insights of professional women’s football merchandising strategies pp. 575-599

Katherine Sveinson, Beth Clarkson, Keith Parry and Jessica Richards

Informing a culture shift in high performance sport in Canada: athletes’ unsafe and safe sport experiences pp. 600-623

Eric MacIntosh, Alison Doherty and Shannon Kerwin

Volume 28, issue 2, 2025

Musical congruity in sports: enhancing team branding in esports and traditional sports pp. 201-231

Yongjin Hwang and Khalid Ballouli

Sport spectator well-being: a scoping review pp. 232-256

Hui Du, Thomas Alexander Baker, Yiran Su, Kevin Byon and Matthew Katz

Collective leadership in nonprofit sport boards pp. 257-281

Lesley Ferkins, David Shilbury and Ian O’Boyle

“Doing” inclusion in the daily sports practice – club representatives’ conceptions of mainstreaming parasports pp. 282-302

Malin Andersson

“Your voice is power!” Examining motivations and opportunity structures for high school athlete activism in U.S. interscholastic sport pp. 303-327

Yannick Kluch, Lillian Feder, Tarkington J Newman, Travis R. Scheadler, Eric M. Martin and Andrew Mac Intosh

Game day guilt: how ingroup affiliation and identity threat influence indulgent food choices among sport fans pp. 328-347

Yonghwan Chang, Taewoong Yoo, Clinton Warren and Daniel L. Wann

Role of risk perception on trust, event impact experiences, and event support in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics during the COVID-19 outbreak pp. 348-369

Daichi Oshimi, Shiro Yamaguchi, Takayuki Fukuhara and Marijke Taks

Investigating consumer preferences and perceptions of brands across men’s and women’s sport: a brand architecture approach pp. 370-395

Jason P. Doyle, Yiran Su, Sarah Jane Kelly, Kevin Filo and Thilo Kunkel

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