High school athletics represents a major segment of the sport industry and is regarded as an important component in youth development in the United States. Roughly 57% of high school students participate in at least one sport, which totals nearly 8 million student athletes ( “Cost,” 2020
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Evaluating the Use of Communication and Technology by High School Athletic Directors to Navigate the COVID-19 Pandemic
Tyler Ratts, Braden Norris, and Brian Mancuso
A Review and Research Agenda for Brand Communities in Sports
David Wagner
Research on brand communities has burgeoned over the past 2 decades. Today many, if not most, sport organizations are entertaining dedicated brand communities. This article traces the development of community thinking in the field of sport management and marketing. Key articles on brand communities in leading journals in the field are identified, reviewed, and their core contributions distilled. By drawing on literature from adjacent fields, seven areas of future research are proposed: make or buy community, getting value from community, building a community capability, solving the community engagement puzzle, focusing on effective community engagement practices, analyzing the full community life cycle, and community for Web 3.0. The article provides a number of recommendations for future research on brand communities in sport management and marketing, enabling scholars to advance knowledge for both research and practice.
U.S. Sport Management Programs in Business Schools: Trends and Key Issues
Noni Zaharia, Anastasios Kaburakis, and David Pierce
The growth of sport management programs housed in (or with formal curriculum-based ties to) a school of business indicates more academic institutions are reconsidering sport management as a business-oriented field. Thus, research is necessary regarding benchmarking information on the state of these academic programs. The purpose of this study is to explore trends on administration, housing, accreditation, faculty performance indicators and research requirements, as well as salaries for faculty and alumni of such programs. Data were submitted by 74 department chairs and program directors employed in U.S. business schools featuring sport management programs. Results indicate that the majority of sport business programs are part of an interdisciplinary department; COSMA accreditation is largely viewed as redundant; and, depending on business schools’ accreditation, variability exists concerning faculty performance measures and research impact, as well as faculty and alumni salaries. These findings suggest considerable progress of sport management programs within business schools.
Examining How High School Athletic Directors Leverage Communication With Key Stakeholder Groups to Inform Performance Appraisals of Head Coaches
Tyler Ratts
With over 55% of all high school students participating in at least one sport, which represents nearly eight million student-athletes, interscholastic athletics play an important role in the educational experience for those within the United States ( Grant, 2021 ). Given not only the high
Using the Disclosure Decision-Making Model to Understand High School Football Players’ Disclosures of Concussion Symptoms
Gregory A. Cranmer and Sara LaBelle
injuries estimated in billions of dollars ( Finkelstein, Corso, & Miller, 2006 ), sport-related concussions have been identified as a major public health concern ( Weibe, Comstock, & Nance, 2011 ). High school football is a focal point of such concern, with as many as 9.88% of players suffering a
Developing Student-Athlete School Satisfaction and Psychological Well-Being: The Effects of Academic Psychological Capital and Engagement
Minjung Kim, Brent D. Oja, Han Soo Kim, and Ji-Hyoung Chin
, Filo, Lock, Funk, & McDonald, 2016 ; Inoue & Kent, 2012 ; Inoue, Sato, Filo, Du, & Funk, 2017 ; Kim, Perrewé, Kim, & Kim, 2017 ). In line with the virtues of transformative sport service research, we have chosen to examine a unique space within the sport industry—collegiate student-athletes’ school
Sport (Tourism and) Heritage, Undergraduate Sport Management Degrees, and Remote Teaching: A View From Scotland
Matthew L. McDowell
historians of sport ( Haynes, 2020 ; Moore, 2013 ; Reilly, 2015 ; Skillen & Osborne, 2015 ). The author created a fourth-year module at the University of Edinburgh, Moray House School of Education and Sport, that deals specifically with sport heritage, in concert with tourism. The nexus between tourism
Tourism Touché: USA Fencing’s Delicate Dance With Tournament Site Selection
Bradley J. Baker and Ashley Gardner
for participants remain paramount, as attendees shoulder substantial expenses for hotels, flights, rental cars, and missed work and school. Tournament locations near population centers on the coasts allow geographic proximity for more members, though equilibrium across regions is also valued
Teaching Reflections and Insights From a 38-Year Sport Management Career
W. James (Jim) Weese
hallmarks of his teaching. His example inspired me to enter graduate school, the sport management profession, and to this day, his example and insights continue to inform my teaching practices. Other NASSM role models and mentors like Drs. Earle Ziegler, Janet Parks, Joy DeSensi, Trevor Slack, Gordon
Student Perceptions of Program Quality: The Value of the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation in the Strategic Development of Sport Management Curricula
Nicole Sellars, Christopher Atwater, Christopher Corr, and Christina Martin
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