Tag: Jeroen Scheerder
European Journal for Sport and Society, Vol. 22, 2025, Issue 2
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: ‘It’s not just you come into the gym and do your weight training’: a narrative exploration of muscularity’s role as identity capital by Ieuan Cranswick, David Richardson, Martin Littlewood & David Tod (open access).
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 60, 2025, No. 4
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: Paddling as ‘Pelagic Postcolonialism’: Pacific voyaging resurgence, ocean justice and outrigger canoe racing (Va’a) in Fiji by Yoko Kanemasu.
European Sport Management Quarterly, Volume 25, 2025, Issue 1
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: Investigating top-down and bottom-up strategic alignment of event leveraging outcomes: the case of the 2021 UCI Road World Championships by Georgia Teare, Jordan T. Bakhsh, Kerri L. Bodin, Kobe Helsen, Marijke Taks & Jeroen Scheerder (open access).
International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, Volume 16, 2024, Issue 3
The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics is published by Routledge, and aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘Impact of the UEFA Nations League on competitive balance, competitive intensity, and fairness in European men’s national team football by Nicolas Scelles, Aurélien François & Maurizio Valenti (open access).
The impact of COVID-19 on the sports industry
Paul M. Pedersen’s edited collection Research Handbook on Sport and COVID-19 (Edward Elgar) examines sport-related research and analysis pertaining to how the sport industry has been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and discusses how the sport industry and its stakeholders might move forward in post-pandemic times. Our reviewer is Leonardo Colares Castro, and he deals with this 462 pages, 34 chapters and 92 authors volume in the only way possible – taking a comprehensive view, finding the many advantages and making note of a few shortcomings.
Soccer & Society, Volume 25, 2024, Issue 3
Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Video Assistant Referee (VAR), gender and football refereeing: a scoping review by Sigbjørn Skirbekk (open access).
European Journal for Sport and Society, Vol. 21, 2024, Issue 1
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: The effects of capital and gender on German adolescents’ favourite sports by Sebastian Gehrmann, Uta Czyrnick-Leber & Pamela Wicker.
European Sport Management Quarterly, Volume 23, 2023, Issue 3
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: Exploring the role of fitness instructors’ interaction quality skills in building customer trust in the service provider and customer satisfaction by Niki Glaveli, Dimitra Papadimitriou, Thomas Karagiorgos & Kostas Alexandris.
European Sport Management Quarterly, Volume 23, 2023, Issue 1
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).
Unpacking cultural diversity in sport management
Cross-cultural management is an important facet of the globalized sport industry. Globalized Sport Management in Diverse Cultural Contexts, edited by James J. Zhang & Brenda G. Pitts (Routledge), brings together research on this issue from sport scholars around the world. Our reviewer is Derrick Charway, and he finds that the book does what it intended to, bud he would have liked an abstract for each chapter, and he points out that micro level analyses would have added important insights about cultural diversity in practice.













