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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Rivalry in Sport: Understanding Fan Behavior and Organizations	33
Sponsorship in Marketing: Effective Partnerships in Sports, Arts, and Events (2nd Ed.)	31
Changing the Game: My Career in Collegiate Sports Marketing	29
The Antecedents of Shared Leadership in Sport for Development and Peace Collaboratives	25
Athlete Misconduct and Team Sponsor Stock Prices: The Role of Incident Type and Media Coverage	25
The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society	23
An Analysis of Identity Conflict Among Health-Conscious Sport Fans	21
Renewable Energy Source Diffusion in Professional Sport Facilities	20
Exploring the Perception of Division I Coaches and Administrators About International Collegiate Athlete Exclusion From Name, Image, and Likeness Opportunities	20
Owner–Resident Ideological Divergence and Firm Performance: Evidence From Major League Baseball	18
Mother-Coaches’ Experiences of Policy and Programs: “Whoever Wrote This Policy Doesn’t Understand What It Means to Be a Mom”	18
The Strength of Community: The Role of Social Support Networks in Sport Officials’ Retention	17
Working in the Sport Industry: A Classification of Human Capital Archetypes	16
“Like Ships in the Night” and the Paradox of Distinctiveness for Sport Management: A Citation Network Analysis of Institutional Theory in Sport	15
Special Issue Introduction: Name, Image, and Likeness and the National Collegiate Athletic Association	15
Privileging Practice in Sport Leadership: Applying Relational Reflexivity	14
New Evidence in the Study of Shirking in Major League Baseball	14
The Role of Team Identification on the Sponsorship Articulation–Fit Relationship	14
What Does Entrepreneurship Add to the Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility Management in Sport?	13
The New Wave of Influencers: Examining College Athlete Identities and the Role of Homophily and Parasocial Relationships in Leveraging Name, Image, and Likeness	11
A Resource-Based View of Organizational Sustainability in Sport for Development	10
How League and Community Affect Corporate Philanthropy in Professional Sport: A Multiple Field Embeddedness Perspective	10
Does Being a Sport Fan Provide Meaning in Life?	9
Critical Discourse Analysis as Theory, Methodology, and Analyses in Sport Management Studies	8
A Longitudinal Study of Power Relations in a British Olympic Sport Organization	8

Feeling Vital by Watching Sport: The Roles of Team Identification and Stadium Attendance in Enhancing Subjective Vitality	8
Remapping the Sport Brandscape: A Structured Review and Future Direction for Sport Brand Research	8
Tracing Gender Allyship and the Role of Awareness in Addressing the Gender Leadership Gap in Sport Organizations	8
An Institutional Framework for Governance Convergence in Sport: The Case of India	8
Charting Their Own Path: Using Life Course Theory to Explore the Careers of Gay Men Working in Sport	8
The Impact of Augmented Reality Technology on Sport Spectators’ Psychological and Behavioral Responses: The Role of Sensitization and Habituation	7
Player Tracking, Shot Charts, and the National Basketball Association’s Three-Point Revolution: A Technology-Based Misspecification in a Primary Sport Management Setting?	7
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	7
A Peculiarity That Positions Sport Management	6
Interactive Mechanisms to Improve Service Innovation Among Sports Clubs: A Consumer Perspective	6
Playing in Front of the Bench: Courtside Selection and Its Impact on Team Performance	6
Becoming an Occupation? A Research Agenda Into the Professionalization of the Sport for Development and Peace Sector	6
The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Sustainable Development	6
“What Have I Learned … ” and How Did I Get There? Reflection on a Research Journey	6
An Investigation Into Voluntary Occupational Turnover of Sport Employees Using the Transtheoretical Model of Change	6
Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations	6
A Typology of Design Archetypes in Professional Football Leagues: Autonomy and Openness as Key Factors Explaining Design Variance	6
Same Players Different Game: An Examination of the Commercial College Athletics Industry	5
Vulnerability to Fraud in Community Sport Organizations: A Multicountry Study on the Role of Organizational Capacity	5
Increasing Human Capital of Coaches—An Investigation Into Individual and Organizational Factors	5
Predicting Season Ticket Holder Retention Using Rich Behavioral Data	5
The Cinderella Strategy: The Game Plan Behind Butler University’s Rise to Prominence	5
Are “Tech-Savvy” Owners Better for Business? Evidence From Major League Baseball	5
Do Consumer Perceptions of Tanking Impact Attendance at National Basketball Association Games? A Sentiment Analysis Approach	5
Examining the Efficacy of a Government-Led Sport for Development and Peace Event	5
The Digital World of Sport: The Impact of Emerging Media on Sports News, Information, and Journalism	5
Exercising Power: A Critical Examination of National Collegiate Athletic Association Discourse Related to Name, Image, and Likeness	5
Introduction: State of Literature Special Issue	4
The Bare Supervening Necessities of Theory Development in Sport Management	4
(Un)Doing Gender Inequalities in Sport Organizations	4
A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	4
Governance of Post-Olympic Games Legacy Organizations: A Comparative Study	4
A Framework of Strategic Approaches to Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport	4
Organizational-Level Factors That Influence Women Coaches’ Experiences	4
Global Sports and Contemporary China (1st ed.)	4
Understanding Season Ticket Holder Attendance Decisions	4
What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences	4
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	3
Identity Conflict Among Politically Engaged Sport Fans: Implications for Fan Loyalty	3
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport	3
Ethical Club Climate and Coaching Style: Unveiling Their Role in Coach-Perpetrated Psychological Abuse of Gymnasts	3
Refereeing as a Postathletic Career Option	3
Organizational Behavior in Sport Management: An Applied Approach to Understanding People and Groups	3
Long-Term Viewership Forecasting of American College Football Games	3
Introduction to Reflexivity in Sport Management Research	3
Business the NHL Way: Lessons From the Fastest Game on Ice	3
Professional Team Sports and the Soft Budget Constraint	3
Motivations for Crowdinvesting in European Football Clubs	3
Managing and Developing Sports Officials: Officiating Excellence	3
A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Reactions to the Inaugural Tour de France Femmes Route	3

Between Profit and Purpose: Employee Responses to Financial and Social Logics in Women’s Sport	2
Dead Spaces: Sport Venues and Police Stops in a Major League, Upper Midwestern City in the United States	2
Feminine and Sexy: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Ideology and Professional Cheerleading	2
“Seven Weeks Is Not a Lot of Time”: Temporal Work and Institutional Change in Australian Football	2
Gender, Leadership, and Governance in English National Governing Bodies of Sport: Formal Structures, Rules, and Processes	2
“The Best Teacher Is Also a Student”: Improving Qualitative Research Literacy by Learning From My Mistakes	2
Motivations, Barriers, and Supports: An Examination of the Experiences of Women of Color Recreational Sport Coaches	2
The Philosophical Athlete (2nd Ed.)	2
Why Do Unfairly Paid Trainees Persist? Pay Fairness and Human Capital Investment in Development Leagues	2
An Analysis of Training-Related Outcomes Within Canadian National Sport Organizations	2
How Transfer Behavior Impacts Consumer Perceptions and Intentions Toward College Athletes Who Pursue Name, Image, and/or Likeness Activities	2
Team Representation: Scale Development and Validation	2
Superstars Really Are Scarce: Shohei Ohtani and Baseball Attendance	2
“If You Ain’t First, You’re Last!” Understanding Identity Threat, Team Identification, and Advertisement Messages When Your Favorite Team Loses	2
Swinging for the Fences? Payroll, Performance, and Risk Behavior in the Major League Baseball Draft	2
Stadium Giveaway Promotions: How Many Items to Give and the Impact on Ticket Sales in Live Sports	2
Creating New Sport Opportunities for Girls: Resource Acquisition and Mobilization Across Competitive Environments	2
“Slayyyed Head to Toe”: Social Media Discourses of Blackness, Queerness, Gender, and the Women’s National Basketball Association Draft	1
Book Review of Routledge Handbook of Football Business and Management	1
Organizational Identity Development in Sport Volunteers	1
Social Media in Sport: Theory and Practice	1
Dealing With Statistical Significance in Big Data: The Social Media Value of Game Outcomes in Professional Football	1
Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem	1
Exploring Sport Employees’ Conceptualizations of Meaningful Work	1
Entrepreneurial Bricolage and Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace Organizations	1
Basketball’s Black Tax? An Examination of Historically Black College and University Men’s Basketball Guarantee Game Compensation	1
Conceptualizing Theory Development in Sport Management: An Introduction	1
When a Ban Is Not a Ban: Institutional Work and the Russian Doping Scandal	1
No Way but to Fight: George Foreman and the Business of Boxing	1
A Dichotomy of Sport Sponsorships: Does the Nature of Competition Among Sponsors Matter?	1
Finding Joy in the Journey: Sustaining a Meaningful Career in Sport Management	1
If You Rebuild It, Will They Come? The Impact of Renovated Sports Facilities on Total Revenue and Attendance	1
Ownership in European Soccer, Financial Fair Play, and Performance in UEFA’s 2006–2018 Champions League Tournaments	1
Fan Socializing and BIRGing: The Impact of Trait Competitiveness on Fan Behaviors	1
Mega Sporting Events and Inward Foreign Direct Investment: An Investigation of the Differences Among the Types of Sporting Events and Host Countries	1
Large-Scale Sport Events and Resident Well-Being: Examining PERMA and the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games	1
The Attention Economy and Esports: An Econometric Analysis of Twitch Viewership	1
Sport Clusters and Community Resilience in the United States	1
Charity Sport Event Sponsorship as Value Creation Strategy: An Event Participant Perspective	1
Team Identity and Environmentalism: The Case of Forest Green Rovers	1
“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	1
Research Handbook on Sport and COVID-19	1
Cross-Cultural Comparison of Satellite Fanship: A Consumer Culture Theory Perspective	1
Nation Branding and Sports Diplomacy: Country Image Games in Times of Change	1
“Out of the Black, Into the Big Blue” on a Single Breath: Sport Event Value Co-Creation as Symbolic World-Making	1
Services in Sport Management	1