Tag: Berit Skirstad

In this article by Skirstad, Gammelsæter, Fahlström and Wagner, sport management higher education in Scandinavia is shown not to be a standardized package. Despite commonalities in sporting cultures across Scandinavia, there are differences. Whilst there are strong similarities between Norway and Sweden, Denmark diverges in several respects. The Danes never established a national sports university; also, in contrast to their Scandinavian neighbors, in Denmark sport management HE suffers from a clear differentiation in HE level between university colleges and universities.

ESMQ publishes articles that contribute to our understanding of sport organizations. The Journal sets out to enhance our understanding of the role of sport management and sport bodies in social life. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The effects of overseas exhibition games on consumer interest: the case of the English Premier League by Georgios Nalbantis & Tim Pawlowski.

The Research Handbook on Major Sporting Events, edited by Harry Arne Solberg, Rasmus K. Storm and Kamilla Swart (Edward Elgar) examines the hosting of major sporting events and the impacts they can have on stakeholders. Christian Tolstrup Jensen has read an impressive compilation of scientific studies in the field of major sport event research that gives the initiated reader a useful and nuanced overview of the state-of-the-art in event studies, its understudied areas and a who-is-who in the field.

SMEJ promotes advancement of the body of knowledge in pedagogy as it relates to sport management education and disseminates knowledge about sport management courses, curricula, and teaching. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING FROM A CLASSROOM DESK: EXPLORING STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF APPLIED COURSEWORK by Jaime R. DeLuca, Emily Fornatora.

Milena Parent and Jean-Loup Chappelet have collected 21 contributions for the Routledge Handbook of Sports Event Management, by altogether 36 scholars in the field. Our reviewer is Christian Tolstrup Jensen, and while he offers som suggestions that he feels would improve the quality of the handbook, he is nevertheless quite happy with the collection as it is.

Suzanne Lundvall recenserar Kjønnsmakt i idrett og friluftsliv, en antologi med bidrag från en hyllningskonferensen till Gerd von der Lippe som fyllde 70 år 2012. Redaktörer är festföremålet själv med Hans Hognestad, och vår recensent är mycket nöjd.

Hans-Eric Olson Fil dr, statsvetareFÅ SAMHÄLLSOMRÅDEN TORDE VARA SÅ impregnerade av ideologier som idrotten, såväl internationellt som nationellt i Sverige. Därför borde idrotten vara ett lysande...