Sport, Business and Management: Volume 7 Issue 4

The peculiar economics of sports team ownership: Pursuing urban development in North American cities

Daniel Mason, Stacy-Lynn Sant, Brian Soebbing

The purpose of this paper is to examine how North American professional team owners are engaging in broader urban development projects that have their teams as anchor tenants in…

Youth academy player development in English football: The impact of regulation since 2006

Steve Bullough, James Jordan

From the 2006-2007 season, Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) introduced regulation into European football by imposing “home-grown” quotas on clubs. The purpose of…

Disability status, stereotype content, and employment opportunities in sport and fitness organizations

Tiffany Wright, George Cunningham

The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of disability status among job applicants on stereotype attributions and personnel decisions. The authors also consider the…

Experiential sponsorship activation at a sports mega-event: the case of Cisco at London 2012

Leah Gillooly, Philip Crowther, Dominic Medway

The purpose of this paper is to explore the application of event design principles in the creation and execution of effective experiential sponsorship activations (ESAs) by B2B…

Sponsor networks and business relations orchestrated by team sports clubs

Ulrik Wagner, H. Thomas R. Persson, Marie Overbye

The purpose of this paper is to investigate firms’ reasons and motives for becoming sponsors and how they benefit from this networking engagement by exploring sponsorship networks…

The first century and beyond: A content analysis of Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal

Richard Edward Oddy, Tom Bason

In 2016, Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal (SBM) published its 100th article. While a number of other journals have been analysed as to their content, no…