Tag: Sport Business and Management

This special issue will highlight emerging opportunities and critical challenges posed by AI in sport, offering implications that extend beyond the sport sector. Through empirical studies, theoretical explorations, and case-based insights, the special issue will offer a comprehensive and timely contribution to both scholarship and industry. Contributions will be solicited through a targeted call for papers, outreach to leading researchers, invitations to authors of recent relevant publications, promotion via academic listservs, and, where appropriate, by encouraging collaboration with industry practitioners.

Due to the tremendous growth of esport industry, many scholars have investigated diverse area related to esport. However, significant theoretical and practical gaps exist that necessitate further scholarly and industry attention in the realm of esport. This Special Issue of Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal invites contributions covering a wide range of topic areas intended to fill some other the gaps that still dominates tsholarly research on esports.

SBM promotes the development of a coherent, high-quality body of work that examines both the business and management of sport, as well as the actors and stakeholders that align with sport to further their strategic objectives. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The clock is ticking: contexts, tensions and opportunities for addressing environmental justice in sport management by Chen Chen, Timothy Kellison (open access).

SBM promotes the development of a coherent, high-quality body of work that examines both the business and management of sport, as well as the actors and stakeholders that align with sport to further their strategic objectives. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Performance prediction of basketball players using automated personality mining with twitter data by Dominik Siemon, Jörn Wessels (open access).

SBM promotes the development of a coherent, high-quality body of work that examines both the business and management of sport, as well as the actors and stakeholders that align with sport to further their strategic objectives. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: How are fans affected by the commercialization of elite sports? A review of the literature and a research agenda by Erik Winell, John Armbrecht, Erik Lundberg, Jonas Nilsson (ope access).

SBM promotes the development of a coherent, high-quality body of work that examines both the business and management of sport, as well as the actors and stakeholders that align with sport to further their strategic objectives. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Competitive intensity in differently regulated men's football leagues: evidence from English premier league and German Bundesliga by Fabio Wagner, Mathias Schubert, Holger Preuss, Thomas Könecke.

SBM promotes the development of a coherent, high-quality body of work that examines both the business and management of sport, as well as the actors and stakeholders that align with sport to further their strategic objectives. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Agency problems concerning the handling of fan misbehaviour and its punishment in football by Philipp Winskowski, Susanne Homölle.

SBM promotes the development of a coherent, high-quality body of work that examines both the business and management of sport, as well as the actors and stakeholders that align with sport to further their strategic objectives. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The effectiveness of UEFA Financial Fair Play: evidence from England and France, 2008–2018 by Aurélien Francois, Nadine Dermit-Richard, Daniel Plumley, Rob Wilson, Natacha Heutte.

SBM promotes the development of a coherent, high-quality body of work that examines both the business and management of sport, as well as the actors and stakeholders that align with sport to further their strategic objectives. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Environmental management of sport events: a focus on European professional football by Tiberio Daddi, Francesco Rizzi, Gaia Pretner, Niccolò Todaro, Eleonora Annunziata, Marco Frey, Fabio Iraldo.

SBM promotes the development of a coherent, high-quality body of work that examines both the business and management of sport, as well as the actors and stakeholders that align with sport to further their strategic objectives. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Exploring the accessibility of sport stadia for people with disability: towards the development of a Stadium Accessibility Scale (SAS) by Paul J. Kitchin, Juan Luis Paramio-Salcines, Simon Darcy, Geoff Walters.