Tag: Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez

Politics, Social Issues and the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, edited by Danielle Sarver Coombs and Molly Yanity (Routledge) takes a close look at politics and social issues in the context of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup that took place in Australia and New Zealand and is one of the most attended women’s sporting events in history. Christian Tolstrup Jensen appreciates that the book takes a broad view on women’s football with a global perspective. He also notes that the Cup in fact plays a very limited role in many chapters.

IRSS is a peer reviewed academic journal. Its main purpose is to disseminate research and scholarship on sport throughout the international academic community. The journal publishes research articles of varying lengths, as well as book and media reviews. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The accidentology of sport in France through the prism of the legitimacy theory: A first multilevel quantitative approach by Guillaume Routier, Jade Isner, and Brice Lefèvre.

The aim of the Journal of Sports Economics is to further research in the area of sports economics by bringing together theoretical and empirical research in a single intellectual venue The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Rottenberg at Sixty-Five: In Honor of the 20th Anniversary of the Journal of Sports Economics by Rodney Fort.

Academics in various disciplines are writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘Head coach tenure in college women’s soccer. Do race, gender, and career background matter? by Cornel Nesseler, Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez & Thadeu Gasparetto.

Not knowing how a game of sports will end is said to heighten the attraction of watching it. This is the subject of a recent anthology, Outcome Uncertainty in Sporting Events: Winning, Losing and Competitive Balance edited by Plácido Rodríguez, Stefan Kesenne & Brad R. Humphreys (Edward Elgar). Kjetil K. Haugen has spent a fair amount of time and thought on the Uncertainty of Outcome hypothesis, which is evident in his review.

Sport Management Review is published as a service to sport industries worldwide. It is a multidisciplinary journal concerned with the management, marketing, and governance of sport at all levels and in all its manifestations -- whether as an entertainment, a recreation, or an occupation. The journal welcomes submissions reporting new research, new applications and advances in theory.

The International Journal of Sport Finance (IJSF) is published quarterly and serves as a high-level forum for the dissemination of current research on sport finance topics on a worldwide basis. A fundamental mission of the journal is to communicate to sport industry executives and managers the practical benefits of research on finance related to current practice.