Tag: Hallgeir Gammelsæter

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: Emissions from air travel and major football tournaments by Conor McCarthy, Tracy Bradfield, David Butler & Robert Butler.

Managing Sport and Leisure is a refereed journal that publishes high quality research articles to inform and stimulate discussions relevant to sport and leisure management globally. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The attraction, retention, and transition of elite sport development pathways in surfing in Australia by Popi Sotiriadou, Andrew Thrush & Brad.Hill.

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: Code Red for Elite Sport. A critique of sustainability in elite sport and a tentative reform programme by Hallgeir Gammelsæter & Sigmund Loland (open access).

One way of analysing power is through the concept of hegemony. Hegemony and Sport: Power Through Culture in Theory and Practice by April Henning & Jesper Andreasson (Common Ground) focuses on how hegemony works, particularly in sport. Hallgeir Gammelsæter has read the slim volume and found that a mere 93 pages can sometimes take an unexpected amount of time to penetrate. In all fairness, you learn what you expect to learn, but in the end you’ve had to read a lot more than you expected.

In this feature article, Hallgeir Gammelsæter summarizes his recent article from European Sport Management Quarterly in which he takes on the important issue of the place of sport in sport management. Gammelsæter bemoans the fact that the sport management field of research has developed into a sort of sport business management studies, and he argues for a return to sport and a more sport-focused theory of sport management.

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: Sport is not industry: bringing sport back to sport management by Hallgeir Gammelsæter.

Nu finns läroböcker i idrottsvetenskap på alla skandinaviska majoritetsspråk; det senaste tillskottet är norska antologin Idrettsvitenskap: Perspektiver og praksis, sammanställd av Stig Arve Sæther (Universitetsforlaget). I den medverkar några av de främsta norska idrottsforskarna, samt därtill en svensk och en dansk. En annan dansk idrottsforskare tog på sig att recensera boken för idrottsforum.org, Ulrik Wagner, och från honom blev det både ris och ros.

While appreciating parts of Otto Kadence’s Applied Ethics for Sport Managers (Carolina Academic Press), our reviewer remains unconvinced by her insistence that sport is business and industry and that there needs to be applied ethics specifically for sport managers. But the core of his reservations about Otto’s pre-pandemic book is the absence of an ecological perspective, a paucity that is all the more obvious and regrettable post-pandemic.

SSSF, a multidisciplinary social sciences sport study journal, welcomes articles that deal with sport and social change and social stability in a wide sense, articles about the profound and comprehensive processes affecting sports such as professionalization, globalization, commercialization, urbanization, technologization, medicalization and juridification.