Tag: Karolina Nessel

Exploring why professional team sport clubs are almost always able to survive despite severe financial problems, Professional Team Sports and the Soft Budget Constraint, edited by Rasmus K. Storm, Klaus Nielsen & Zsolt Havran (Edward Elgar) looks at the soft budget constraint theory, SBC. We asked economics historian Giuseppe Telesca for a review and in his knowledgeable assessment of the book, he concludes that the SBC works well to explain the phenomenon under study in this fascinating book.

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.

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: Uncertainty of outcome, team quality or star players? What drives TV audience demand for UEFA Champions League football? by George Wills, Richard Tacon & Francesco Addesa.

IJSMS is the world’s leading journal for the sports marketing industry, and provides a vital resource to both academic and industry experts. For academics it is an opportunity to publish the highest quality, peer-reviewed research. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Sponsor and ambush marketing during the 2018 Commonwealth Games on Twitter and Instagram by Olan K.M. Scott, Nicholas Burton, Bo L.

Yet another volume in Routledge’s World Association for Sport Management Series has been published, International Sport Business Management: Issues and New Ideas, edited by James J. Zhang, Brenda G. Pitts & Lauren M. Johnson. We asked Hans Lundberg, Senior Lecturer in organization and entrepreneurship at the School of Business and Economics, Linnæus University, for a review. He is not impressed by this book, rather the opposite, although he manages to find a couple of bright spots among the contributions.

PJST is published by De Gruyter, and is open access, which means that published articles are freely available in full text. Click on the articles headlines to go to the abstract page, where there’s a link to a pdf-version of the article. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: MOTIVATIONS (FOR) AND OUTCOMES OF CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION IN FOOTBALL MANAGEMENT: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY by Karolina Nessel, Dariusz Drewniak.