Tag: Hans Erik Næss

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The Bumpy Road to World Athletics: Foundation, People, Policies by Lina von Petersdorff & Jörg Krieger (open access).

The Geopolitical Economy of Sport: Power, Politics, Money, and the State edited by Simon Chadwick, Paul Widdop & Michael M. Goldman (Routledge), is the first book to define and explore the geopolitical economy of sport where power, politics, money, and state intersect. Harald Dolles is our reviewer, and while lauding many aspects of the book and the editors’ efforts, he points to the dangers of obsolescence as well as finding several instances where the book not quite measures up to reasonable demands of scholarly astuteness.

The Future of Motorsports: Business, Politics and Society, edited by Hans Erik Næss and Simon Chadwick (Routledge) takes stock of the position of motorsport in the 21st century and considers how it will continue to influence sport business, politics, and society in the future. Alex Twitchen knows a thing or two about motor racing, and he has read this “valuable contribution to the academic study of motorsport” with great interest, while also noting some of the conundrums involved in trying to predict the future.

SSSF, a multidisciplinary social sciences sport studies 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 sport. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Motives, Motivation, and Motivational Climate of Young Norwegian Swimmers, and their Parents’ Belief by Ingeborg Ljødal, Bjørn Harald Olstad & Anne Marte Pensgaard (open access).

EJSS’ function is to enable an international discussion about current issues and to foster collaboration between researchers from all social scientific sub-disciplines. It’s published 4 times per year. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Children’s sport opportunities and parental support in single-parent families with a lower socio-economic status. An ecological perspective by Roman Zehl, Ansgar Thiel & Siegfried Nagel,

The anthology Trends and Advances in Sport and Leisure Management: Expanding the Frontiers, edited by Vassilios Ziakas (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), explores, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the complex dynamics that are reshaping sport and leisure provision. Hans Lundberg has read the collection very carefully, whereby he didn’t miss neither missteps nor expressions of brilliance, and all that’s in between. Except for a few drawbacks the volume is very much to his liking.

Between 2015 and 2019, 52 per cent of the Secretary Generals (SGs) of Norwegian sport federations left their positions. The rate is significantly higher than in the Norwegian labour market in general and poses a further difficulty for a Norwegian sport system already facing many challenges. This article by Hans Erik Næss and Tor Anders Hanssen examines why this is the case. The article provides a contribution to sport leadership research and shows how the lack of continuity among SGs in national sport federations demonstrates the need for organisational change.

Idrott och politik, ett lika uppenbart som ifrågasatt samband, kopplas till kampen för mänskliga rättigheter i Hans Erik Næss’ senaste bok med det passande namnet Idrett, politikk og menneskerettigheter (Fagbokforlaget). Vi gav boken till Karin Zackari, MR-forskare vid Lunds universitet. Trots en del kritiska synpunkter, bland annat rörande pedagogiska brister och lite rörig struktur, framhåller hon bokens värde som ett bidrag till diskussionen om MR och sport och ett verktyg för rättighetsaktivister.

A History of Organizational Change: The case of Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), 1946–2020 by Hans Erik Næss (Palgrave Macmillan) is the first independent study of FIA’s institutional history. Our reviewer, organisation researcher Cecilia Stenling, confesses to scant knowledge about cars in general and motorsport in particular. So, she learnt a lot about the latter from Næss, but has reservations when it comes to his narrative design as well as his handling of theory.

The Journal of Sport & Tourism (JS&T) aims to publish research that makes a clear contribution, substantively, theoretically or methodologically, to the body of knowledge relating to all aspects of the relationship between sport and tourism. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Toward a co-Creation framework for developing a green sports event brand: the case of the 2018 Zürich E Prix by Rune Bjerke & Hans Erik Naess.