Tag: Walker J. Ross

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: Americans’ attitudes towards the U.S. women’s national soccer team by Rachel Allison, Adam Gemar & Stacey Pope.

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: Promoting the Chinese martial arts internationally: Is it ‘Kung Fu’ or ‘Wushu’? by Qing-song Han, Marc Theeboom, Dong Zhu, Inge Derom.

The International Journal of Sport Management publishes high quality academic journal articles in the field of sport management. The international scope and the breadth of its articles aims to represent the complete spectrum of the field. The Forum Editor’s fick from the currant issue: Reciprocity of good will: Deontological and existential tenets in sport management history by Nicholas P. Smith, Michael S. Carroll.

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.

Academics in various disciplines are writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: From sport-for-development to sports mega-events: conflict, authoritarian modernisation and statecraft in Azerbaijan by Joel Rookwood.(open access).

Event Management, an International Journal, has been meeting the research, educational, and analytic needs of the rapidly growing profession focused on global events for more than 20 years. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Understanding the Sport Event Volunteer Experience In the Implementation Mode of a Para-sport Event: An Autoethnography by Erik L. Lachance & Milena M. Parent.

JGSM aims to be the global platform for focused, rigorous, and interdisciplinary research that has originality, depth, and clarity of insights into significant issues and developments of interest to sport management. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: SUSTAINABLE OLYMPIC DEVELOPMENT: A PROPOSED BENCHMARK FOR MANAGING ECONOMIC OUTCOMES by Timothy Koba, Hua Gong, Walker J. Ross & John Grady.

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics and their relationship to sport has resulted in academics in various disciplines writing about sport. Sport in Society is a forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: THE SPORTS WORLD IN THE ERA OF COVID-19 by John Nauright, Sarah Zipp & Young Hoon Kim.

The Journal of Global Sport Management (JGSM) aims to be the global platform for focused, rigorous, and interdisciplinary research that has originality, depth, and clarity of insights into significant issues and developments of interest to sport management. Its main objectives: to advance research; to enhance practice; and to facilitate good policy-making decisions.

This quarterly, refereed journal publishes high quality articles and book reviews to inform and stimulate discussions relevant to leisure management. Managing Sport and Leisure is designed to appeal to anyone with a serious interest in contemporary leisure management issues.