Sport, Business and Management: Volume 8 Issue 5

Making knowledge work – best papers from the Managing Sport SIG at the European Academy of Management (EURAM) Annual Meeting in Glasgow 2017

Anna Gerke, Mathieu Winand

An exploration of motives, constraints and future participation intention in sport and exercise events

Konstantinos Koronios, Thanos Kriemadis

The purpose of this paper is to explore relations among constraints and motivation for running events commitment along with relations among motivation and future commitment…

Building a sponsor’s equity through brand personality: perceptions of fans and rivals

Charitomeni Tsordia, Dimitra Papadimitriou, Artemisia Apostolopoulou

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of perceived fit and brand personality as means of building the brand equity of the sponsor in a basketball sponsorship setting…

Performance management of National Sports Organisations: a holistic theoretical model

Lobone Lloyd Kasale, Mathieu Winand, Leigh Robinson

Organisational performance of sport organisations has been studied over the last three decades. However, little attention was paid towards performance management (PM) compared to…

What influences organisational evolution of modern sport: the case of skateboarding

Mikhail Batuev, Leigh Robinson

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the processes that influence the evolution of a modern sport. It focusses on the case of international skateboarding: the sport that…

Women’s football studies: an integrative review

Maurizio Valenti, Nicolas Scelles, Stephen Morrow

Women’s football has received increasing attention in the academic literature, partly due to its growing popularity worldwide. However, women’s football research remains scattered…

Sport in business studies: a state-of-the-art literature review

Christofer Laurell, Sten Soderman

The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic review of articles on sport published in leading business studies journals within marketing, organisational studies and…