OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Sport Management is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society	41
The Antecedents of Shared Leadership in Sport for Development and Peace Collaboratives	39
Athlete Misconduct and Team Sponsor Stock Prices: The Role of Incident Type and Media Coverage	39
New Evidence in the Study of Shirking in Major League Baseball	33
Does Being a Sport Fan Provide Meaning in Life?	31
Working in the Sport Industry: A Classification of Human Capital Archetypes	27
“Like Ships in the Night” and the Paradox of Distinctiveness for Sport Management: A Citation Network Analysis of Institutional Theory in Sport	25
Introduction: State of Literature Special Issue	24
Examining the Efficacy of a Government-Led Sport for Development and Peace Event	22
Ethical Club Climate and Coaching Style: Unveiling Their Role in Coach-Perpetrated Psychological Abuse of Gymnasts	21
Vulnerability to Fraud in Community Sport Organizations: A Multicountry Study on the Role of Organizational Capacity	21
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	20
An Investigation Into Voluntary Occupational Turnover of Sport Employees Using the Transtheoretical Model of Change	19
Exercising Power: A Critical Examination of National Collegiate Athletic Association Discourse Related to Name, Image, and Likeness	18
Managing and Developing Sports Officials: Officiating Excellence	17
A Framework of Strategic Approaches to Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport	16
A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	14
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	14
Organizational Behavior in Sport Management: An Applied Approach to Understanding People and Groups	13
Services in Sport Management	12
Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem	12
Entrepreneurial Bricolage and Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace Organizations	11
Why Do Unfairly Paid Trainees Persist? Pay Fairness and Human Capital Investment in Development Leagues	11
Swinging for the Fences? Payroll, Performance, and Risk Behavior in the Major League Baseball Draft	11
Business the NHL Way: Lessons From the Fastest Game on Ice	11

Conceptualizing Theory Development in Sport Management: An Introduction	10
Nation Branding and Sports Diplomacy: Country Image Games in Times of Change	10
Organizational Identity Development in Sport Volunteers	10
Sponsorship and the Resource-Based View of the Firm: Effects on the Acquisition of Resources, Demand, the Recruitment of Human Capital, and Organizational Performance	9
Erratum. A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	8
Finding Joy in the Journey: Sustaining a Meaningful Career in Sport Management	8
Decision-Making Processes Used by Canadian National Sport Organization Boards: Differences Between Design Archetypes	8
Dealing With Statistical Significance in Big Data: The Social Media Value of Game Outcomes in Professional Football	8
The Business of Esports: The Wild Wild West on Fire	8
Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Approaches to the Formation of Individual Sport Fans’ Psychological Ownership and Its Impacts on Prosocial Behavior, Attendance Intention, and Psychological Well-B	8
Authenticity Negotiation: How Elite Athletes (Re)Present Themselves as Personal Brands	7
Charting a New Path: Regulating College Athlete Name, Image and Likeness After NCAA v. Alston Through Collective Bargaining	7
Esports Scholarship Review: Synthesis, Contributions, and Future Research	7
Conceptualizing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Sport for Development and Peace	7
“It Is Our Space”: The Formation of Diasporic Families’ Community Cultural Wealth Through Ethnic Sport Participation	7
The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was	7
Factors Affecting Women Sports Officials’ Intention to Leave Across Europe	7
“Sport is Double-Edged”: A Delphi Study of Spectator Sport and Population Health	6
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Black Women Diversity and Inclusion Leaders in Sport Organizations	6
Owner–Resident Ideological Divergence and Firm Performance: Evidence From Major League Baseball	6
Symbolic Interactionism and the Metamorphosis of Sports Brands: Indian Premier League’s Journey From Niche to Mass Cool	6
“Something Seriously Wrong With U.S. Soccer”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Consumers’ Twitter Responses to U.S. Soccer’s Girls’ Apparel Promotion	6
The New Wave of Influencers: Examining College Athlete Identities and the Role of Homophily and Parasocial Relationships in Leveraging Name, Image, and Likeness	6
A Longitudinal Study of Power Relations in a British Olympic Sport Organization	6
“Policy Analysis in Sport Management” Revisited: A Critique and Discussion	6
Safety and Relational Continuity in Sport for Development With Marginalized Young People	6
Tracing Gender Allyship and the Role of Awareness in Addressing the Gender Leadership Gap in Sport Organizations	6
Understanding the Lack of Diversity in Sport Consumer Behavior Research	6
Superstars Really Are Scarce: Shohei Ohtani and Baseball Attendance	5
Mega Sporting Events and Inward Foreign Direct Investment: An Investigation of the Differences Among the Types of Sporting Events and Host Countries	5
What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences	5
Creating New Sport Opportunities for Girls: Resource Acquisition and Mobilization Across Competitive Environments	5
Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations	5
Basketball’s Black Tax? An Examination of Historically Black College and University Men’s Basketball Guarantee Game Compensation	5
Team Representation: Scale Development and Validation	5
Understanding Season Ticket Holder Attendance Decisions	5
“Slayyyed Head to Toe”: Social Media Discourses of Blackness, Queerness, Gender, and the Women’s National Basketball Association Draft	4
If You Rebuild It, Will They Come? The Impact of Renovated Sports Facilities on Total Revenue and Attendance	4
Grassroots Coaching: Using Sports Psychology and Coaching Principles Effectively	4
When a Ban Is Not a Ban: Institutional Work and the Russian Doping Scandal	4
Feminine and Sexy: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Ideology and Professional Cheerleading	4
The Hidden Players: An Egocentric-Network Analysis of Work–Life Balance Among College Athletics Employees	4
Sports Sponsorship Announcements and Marketing Capability	4
The Philosophical Athlete (2nd Ed.)	4
Book Review of Routledge Handbook of Football Business and Management	4
Invisible and Undervalued: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Women Coaches’ Emotional Labor	4
An xG of Their Own: Using Expected Goals to Explore the Analytical Shortcomings of Misapplied Gender Schemas in Football	4
State-Level Politics and Bias Predict Transgender Athlete Bans	3
The Impact of Augmented Reality Technology on Sport Spectators’ Psychological and Behavioral Responses: The Role of Sensitization and Habituation	3
The Cinderella Strategy: The Game Plan Behind Butler University’s Rise to Prominence	3

The Bare Supervening Necessities of Theory Development in Sport Management	3
Rivalry in Sport: Understanding Fan Behavior and Organizations	3
Feeling Vital by Watching Sport: The Roles of Team Identification and Stadium Attendance in Enhancing Subjective Vitality	3
The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Sustainable Development	3
Player Tracking, Shot Charts, and the National Basketball Association’s Three-Point Revolution: A Technology-Based Misspecification in a Primary Sport Management Setting?	3
Does It Matter if Sport Fans “Root for the Home Team?” A Test of the Team Identification–Social Psychological Health Model	3
Directions in Fandom and Spectatorship	3
Renewable Energy Source Diffusion in Professional Sport Facilities	3
Are “Tech-Savvy” Owners Better for Business? Evidence From Major League Baseball	3
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Sport Organizations	2
No Way but to Fight: George Foreman and the Business of Boxing	2
A Peculiarity That Positions Sport Management	2
“The Best Teacher Is Also a Student”: Improving Qualitative Research Literacy by Learning From My Mistakes	2
Bouncing Back: Unpacking the Influence of Sport Media on Consumer Resilience	2
The Political Economy of Mass Sport Participation Legacies From Large-Scale Sport Events: A Conceptual Paper	2
Institutional Theory in Sport: A Scoping Review	2
“It’s Like Being on an Island by Yourself”: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Administrators’ Perceptions of Barriers to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in Intercollegiate Athletics	2
With Name, Image, and Likeness, College Sports Enters the Gig Economy	2
Governance of Post-Olympic Games Legacy Organizations: A Comparative Study	2
(Un)Doing Gender Inequalities in Sport Organizations	2
Gender, Leadership, and Governance in English National Governing Bodies of Sport: Formal Structures, Rules, and Processes	2
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport	2
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policies in Canadian Nonprofit Sport Organizations: A Management-by-Values Approach	2
The Myth of the Amateur: A History of College Athletic Scholarships	2
Do Consumer Perceptions of Tanking Impact Attendance at National Basketball Association Games? A Sentiment Analysis Approach	2
“Seven Weeks Is Not a Lot of Time”: Temporal Work and Institutional Change in Australian Football	2
Leading Culture Change in Public Recreation	2
Frustrated Customers: The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Yelp Reviews	2
What Is Blackness to Sport Management? Manifestations of Anti-Blackness in the Field	2
Stadium Giveaway Promotions: How Many Items to Give and the Impact on Ticket Sales in Live Sports	1
How Transfer Behavior Impacts Consumer Perceptions and Intentions Toward College Athletes Who Pursue Name, Image, and/or Likeness Activities	1
Mother-Coaches’ Experiences of Policy and Programs: “Whoever Wrote This Policy Doesn’t Understand What It Means to Be a Mom”	1
The Influence of Personal Branding and Institutional Factors on the Name, Image, and Likeness Value of Collegiate Athletes’ Social Media Posts	1
Sport Stadiums and Environmental Justice (1st ed.)	1
Accounting for Race: A Critical Institutionalist Approach	1
Sport Fans and Flourishing: Examining the Mediating Role of Sport Fan Well-Being in Predicting Flourishing	1
Broadcaster Choice and Audience Demand for Live Sport Games: Panel Analyses of the Korea Baseball Organization	1
Decolonizing Sport	1
The Digital World of Sport: The Impact of Emerging Media on Sports News, Information, and Journalism	1
What Does Entrepreneurship Add to the Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility Management in Sport?	1
Sponsorship in Marketing: Effective Partnerships in Sports, Arts, and Events (2nd Ed.)	1
Image Repair Using Social Identity Leadership: An Exploratory Analysis of the National Football League’s Response to the National Anthem Protests	1
It’s a Party in the MLB: An Analysis of Shirking Between Games in Major League Baseball	1
Navigating a White, Male Space: The Lived Experiences of Black, Female Ice Hockey Fans	1
Big Data and Analytics in Sport Management	1
Keeping It Real or Bridging the Gap? Brand Positioning of U.S. Sport Teams in Germany and China	1
Motivations, Barriers, and Supports: An Examination of the Experiences of Women of Color Recreational Sport Coaches	1
Becoming an Occupation? A Research Agenda Into the Professionalization of the Sport for Development and Peace Sector	1
Exploring the Perception of Division I Coaches and Administrators About International Collegiate Athlete Exclusion From Name, Image, and Likeness Opportunities	1
How League and Community Affect Corporate Philanthropy in Professional Sport: A Multiple Field Embeddedness Perspective	1
Great Expectations: A Critical Review of Interorganizational Relationships in Amateur Sport	1
Handbook on International Sports Law	1
A Segmentation Analysis of American Sports Bettors by Involvement	1
University–Organization Collaboration in Sport for Development: Understanding Practitioners’ Perspectives and Experiences in Research and Evaluation Partnerships	1
Addressing the Complexity of Violence Against Women in Sport: Using the World Café Method to Inform Organizational Response	1