A Case Study and Guide for Sport Data Analytics: Using Python and Yahoo! Finance Data to Run Practical Analyses in the Sport Management Classroom

In her article "An Analysis of University Definitions of Sexual Harassment" (Signs 8, no. 4 [Summer 1983]: 696-707), Phyllis L. Crocker evaluates the definitions of sexual harassment used by academic, professional, and governmental bodies. Her analysis is astute, enlightening, and important. However, she makes no mention of sexual harassment of women professors by their men students.' There is a general lack of awareness of this type of harassment not only in Crocker's work and the official definitions but also in other research on sexual harassment within

As the sport industry has become ever more global, the importance of having competent, well-trained professionals who understand the cross-national, and inter-cultural aspects of sport and management will become increasingly crucial. As such, sport management educators need to develop curricula and provide experiences that will prepare students for the cross-cultural challenges of working in a multicultural workforce and needing to cater to increasingly culturally diverse consumers. In this chapter we propose a model for planning, developing, and delivering a high-impact sport management study abroad programme which can enhance a student’s knowledge and understanding of the contemporary globalised sport world. We draw upon our collective experiences co-leading a short-term, faculty-led study abroad programme to New Zealand that visits four cities across three weeks while critically examining the policy, management, and marketing of sport in New Zealand. Following Cole’s (2018) model for developing a study abroad programme, we outline our iterative approach to proposing a short-term, faculty-led programme, highlighting the various interrelated and interdependent processes involved. The chapter is intended to serve as a ‘road map’ for sport management scholars and practitioners who may be considering leading a short-term study abroad programme, taking them through the entire process of design, development, and delivery.

The aim of this research is to make a holistic analysis on sport management education by analysing all scientific publications between 1990-2020. Using the data obtained within the scope of the study, information graphics and descriptive bibliometric networks were created to reveal bibliometric networks. According to the results it was found that the most used keywords were sport management, education, sport and higher education. Citation analysis reveals that Lyras and Peachey are the most cited authors. There are a total of 77 journals in the data. Sport Management Education Journal, Sport Management Review and Journal of Sport Management are the most cited journals. The most cited universities are Griffith University, University of Louisville and Louisiana State University. The most cited studies in the literature focus on sexist discourse, the importance of race and ethnicity in education and socialization, the impact of sport on social change, sport participation and consumer spending, environmental sustainability in sport facilities, and how sport management affects society and managers.

Collaboration between industry and academia is a subject of great interest to sport management academics and sport industry leaders in the United States. However, there is a lack of research regarding barriers to sport industry–academia collaborations and bridging the gap between sport management research and practitioners. The aim of the study was to explore trends in collaboration barriers among various research involvement levels of U.S. sport firms with sport management academia. Data were gathered from 303 sport managers working for U.S. sport companies. Results indicated several barriers for research collaborations between the U.S. sport industry and academia. Such barriers include transactional barriers, sport industry subsectors, sport organizations’ location, and age and education level of respondents.

Research question This paper questions why, despite capitalism’s intimate connections with sport, it is rarely named, let alone explicitly discussed in sport management. It questions whether capitalism should remain as the invisible, ghostly backdrop wherein sport management is located and conceptualized. Research methods This paper is primarily a position and conceptual paper, though it is foregrounded with a search of the term ‘capitalism’ within leading sport management academic journals, conference abstracts, and textbooks. It also provides a synopsis of capitalism (as a global system of power) and suggests that capitalism has a ghostly presence in contemporary sport management scholarship. Results and findings This paper advocates for an expansive understanding of ‘sport management’ as the organizing processes of sport activities, as opposed to the ‘managing’ modalities with capitalist values. Naming capitalism is a necessary first step for sport management research to become more accountable to social justice and emancipation. Implications Naming capitalism makes it analyzable. It opens up intellectual space to support multi-racial, multi-gender working-class and anti-colonial struggles within and beyond the sport industry, furthering existing analyses on racism, sexism, heteronormativity, ableism, etc. with a renewed focus on contradictions under capitalism. Moreover, it opens up possibilities to theorize non-capitalist forms of organizing sport that challenge the default logics of the sport ‘industry’.

The Sports Management Toolkit is a practical guide to the most important management tools and techniques available to those working in the sport and leisure industries. Designed to bridge the gap between the classroom and the workplace, it includes ten free-standing chapters, each of which provides a detailed introduction to best practice in one of the core sports management disciplines. Written in a clear and straightforward style, and free of management jargon, the book covers all the key functional areas of contemporary sports management, including: marketing performance management risk management human resource management project management finance. Each chapter includes a detailed, step-by-step description of the key tools and techniques and their application; a ‘real world’ case study to demonstrate the technique in action, plus an extensive guide to further resources and a series of self-test questions. The final chapter offers an extended, integrated case-study, demonstrating how all the key management techniques are combined within the everyday operation of a successful sport or leisure organization. This book is essential reading for all students of sport and leisure management, and for all managers looking to improve their professional practice.

This article offers a critique of internships in the context of U.S. sport management by examining the perspectives of internship supervisors from the sport industry, specifically Minor League Baseball (MiLB) teams. Through semi-structured interviews with 15 supervisors across 14 MiLB teams, we investigated how supervisors rationalize their teams’ facilitation of internships and manage them in practice. Using a Foucauldian framework, we identified four key discourses from the interviews: (1) Internships as disposable labor, (2) Mundane task delegation for workload relief, (3) Institutional failures disguised as individual responsibility, and (4) Internships as workforce investments. Our findings reveal that internships function not merely as educational experiences but as mechanisms of labor control, where supervisors are both agents of and subjected to power structures traditionally associated with the subjugation of interns. Within this dynamic, supervisors must navigate the conflicting demands of practical pedagogy and organizational productivity. This study contributes to the internship literature by providing a critical empirical analysis of supervisor subjectivities, further advancing the growing critique of internships in the U.S. Based on our results, we call for rethinking the fundamental demand for internships at the intersection of U.S. sport management and sport industry.

In the context of globalization, the sports industry is facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges. The development models of sports industries in various countries have their own characteristics, but there is also room for mutual learning and optimization. Based on the perspective of comparative research, this paper selects developed countries with sports industries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan as research objects, and deeply explores their successful experiences in sports management innovation. By using theoretical tools such as new institutional economics and endogenous growth theory, combined with quantitative research methods, this paper systematically analyzes the characteristics and differences of these countries in sports management system, policies and regulations, market operation, talent training, etc. The study found that the coordinated development model of government guidance, market dominance, and social participation is the key to promoting sports management innovation. At the same time, factors such as technological innovation, talent training, and brand building have an important impact on the sustainable development of the sports industry. This paper constructs a sports management innovation evaluation system with 5 dimensions and 20 indicators, which provides a theoretical basis and practical guide for optimizing sports management in different countries and regions.

Sports Management is one of the most important areas of the sport industry and covers many different areas. In any institution, manager/s involved in a private sector or public institutions may have difficulties making a right decision in favour of their institutions during a crisis. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship among crisis management, decision-making styles, and self-confidence skills in decision-making among sport managers. The sample of the study consists of 226 managers working as sports managers in central and provincial institutions of the general directorate of sport services in Turkey. This study was conducted through a comprehensive literature review on the relevant subject and designed in line with the general thoughts and opinions of the managers working at the managerial level. The study is a descriptive study conducted via a relational survey model. During data analysis, the results obtained from correlation and regression analyzes were given along with discussions and interpretations. The initial result indicated that sports managers have high self-confidence in decision-making. According to regression analysis, only the internal-self-confidence was found to be a significant predictor of the decision-making style.

Mental health is an emerging area of interest in sport, but there is a paucity of educational initiatives in sport management curricula to train the next generation of sport managers to address the mental health needs of athletes, a type of knowledge that the mental health literature operationalizes as mental health literacy. One goal of accrediting bodies such as the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation is for excellence in sport management education; thus, due to the changing landscape of sport, sport management curricula should incorporate mental health literacy competencies. This educational research review provides justification for the inclusion of mental health literacy competencies in sport management curricula and accreditation standards, as well as pedagogical strategies for implementation.

Digital technologies are responsible for some of the largest changes of our era – both in leisure and in work. The on-going digital disruption and demand for digital skills is creating significant impact, and bringing benefits and opportunities, for businesses globally. From the local community level to elite professional sport, technology advances have changed both on-field and off-field performance. The increasing digitisation of sport business operations has increased the demand for digital skills in the sport sector workforce. As such, it is critical for employability that graduates from higher education (HE) sport management programmes, have developed digital literacy competencies. The purpose of this chapter is to explore the integration of digital literacy into HE curriculum in the field of sport management. This chapter, first, discusses and defines the concept of digital literacy and then draws on a framework that includes three inter-connected technical, cognitive, and socio-emotional skill areas to discuss digital literacy requirements of the sport industry and, thus, of the HE sport management curriculum.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss how the relationship between sport and business has increased the complexity of ethical issues affecting contemporary sport management. Specifically, this paper seeks to define conflict of interest and how it is manifested in both business and sport.Design/methodology/approachThe paper provides a conceptual discussion of the issue of conflict of interest as it relates to the management and governance of sports organizations. Relationships between business ethics, governance and sport management are examined in the quest to understand conflict of interest and its prevalence in and relevance to sport management.FindingsConflicts of interest within the sport industry may have the same structural elements as those occurring in mainstream business, such as benefits, obligations and issues of trust, but it is the higher societal expectations and values placed on sport and sporting organizations that provide the key points of difference.Practical implicationsThrough collaboration with sport management practitioners, via inductive in‐depth research, a clearer definition of conflict of interest and the range of situations in which it may occur can be developed. It is through a continued research effort in this area that sport managers will be better able to both identify and manage conflicts of interest as they occur.Originality/valueIt is the lack of definitive examples or guidelines for recognition of an actual or a potential conflict of interest that appears to cause the greatest confusion within sport management. By drawing together the key concepts found within the extant literature, a clearer understanding of what constitutes a conflict of interest is provided by this paper.

ABSTRACTSport management as a field of study is necessarily context-bound but this has often meant that our research is seen as sector-specific and hence lacking the generality to merit publication in top academic journals. Yet our recognition of the importance of context means that sport management is well placed to provide research with real-world impact. And as national research evaluation programmes put greater emphasis on user-value in academic research, sport management has an opportunity to grow in stature both within academia as well as externally in the sports industry. Drawing on alternative policy models of research, particularly Stokes's concept of Pasteur's Quadrant, I propose a taxonomy of sport management research illustrated by specific examples. I argue that sport management needs to be more active in promoting evidence-based practice in sports organisations. I conclude with concrete proposals to improve the rigour and relevance of sport management research.

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Sport management has come a long way in the past 20 years. As a previously volunteerled sector even at upper echelons of the industry, the sport management environment has now evolved into a legitimate professional and commercial sector and continues to grow in size and scope in many nations throughout the world. The growth in broadcasting revenue and other commercial aspects of the industry have largely fuelled this more professionalised approach and this has undoubtedly had a trickle-down effect throughout all levels of sporting structures, from elite to community based sport. The industry has often been criticised for not staying on pace with developments in the traditional business sector such as adopting what may be considered to be best practice in those environments, but over the past decade we are seeing more and more sport based organisations align their operations with traditional business and management practices that has legitimised the sector further and has made it a respected and vibrant part of the global business and management environment. However, the uniqueness of sport, as an overall product, presents a number of challenges and complexities that must be overcome, such as the use of performance enhancing drugs in elite level sport, governance failures and challenges at almost all levels of the industry, specific strategic and marketing principles that must be applied, and the emergence of match fixing and other forms of unethical behaviour, to name a few. This book discusses the most important of these challenges as individual chapters and relies on the most up-to-date academic research in the field to provide insight and perhaps to illuminate a path of how such challenges can be addressed and overcome. As the opening section in this book, the current chapter attempts to provide a context for the current state of the sport management field while also highlighting what is to follow in the forthcoming chapters.