OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Sport Management is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Sport Ecology: Conceptualizing an Emerging Subdiscipline Within Sport Management	123
Esports Scholarship Review: Synthesis, Contributions, and Future Research	31
Institutional Theory in Sport: A Scoping Review	30
Big Data and Analytics in Sport Management	29
Working in the Sport Industry: A Classification of Human Capital Archetypes	25
Customer Engagement in Sport: An Updated Review and Research Agenda	24
Sport Experience Design: Wearable Fitness Technology in the Health and Fitness Industry	23
The Psychological Meaning of Team Among Fans of Women’s Sport	22
An Institutional Framework for Governance Convergence in Sport: The Case of India	21
The Attention Economy and Esports: An Econometric Analysis of Twitch Viewership	20
Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem	19
Do Consumer Perceptions of Tanking Impact Attendance at National Basketball Association Games? A Sentiment Analysis Approach	18
LGBT Diversity and Inclusion, Community Characteristics, and Success	17
Connecting Customer Knowledge Management and Intention to Use Sport Services Through Psychological Involvement, Commitment, and Customer Perceived Value	17
Understanding Season Ticket Holder Attendance Decisions	17
Is Reflexivity Enough? Addressing Reflexive Embodiment, Power, and Whiteness in Sport Management Research	17
What Is Blackness to Sport Management? Manifestations of Anti-Blackness in the Field	16
Women and Leadership Development in Australian Sport Organizations	16
Addressing Gender Inequity in Sport Through Women’s Invisible Labor	16
Understanding the Lack of Diversity in Sport Consumer Behavior Research	15
Large-Scale Sport Events and Resident Well-Being: Examining PERMA and the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games	14
Critical Discourse Analysis as Theory, Methodology, and Analyses in Sport Management Studies	14
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	13
Gender, Leadership, and Governance in English National Governing Bodies of Sport: Formal Structures, Rules, and Processes	13
Examining Institutional Entrepreneurship in the Passage of Youth Sport Concussion Legislation	12

Remapping the Sport Brandscape: A Structured Review and Future Direction for Sport Brand Research	12
Stigma Consciousness and Work Outcomes of Senior Woman Administrators: The Role of Workplace Incivility	10
Sport Clusters and Community Resilience in the United States	10
Charting Their Own Path: Using Life Course Theory to Explore the Careers of Gay Men Working in Sport	10
“Something Seriously Wrong With U.S. Soccer”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Consumers’ Twitter Responses to U.S. Soccer’s Girls’ Apparel Promotion	9
A Longitudinal Study of Power Relations in a British Olympic Sport Organization	9
Extending the Kaleidoscope Career Model: Understanding Career Needs of Midcareer Elite Head Coaches	8
New Evidence in the Study of Shirking in Major League Baseball	8
Becoming an Occupation? A Research Agenda Into the Professionalization of the Sport for Development and Peace Sector	8
What Does Entrepreneurship Add to the Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility Management in Sport?	8
Frustrated Customers: The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Yelp Reviews	8
Predicting Season Ticket Holder Retention Using Rich Behavioral Data	8
Running Through Travel Career Progression: Social Worlds and Active Sport Tourism	8
“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	8
“No Idea is a Bad Idea”: Exploring the Nature of Design Thinking Alignment in an Australian Sport Organization	7
Does Being a Sport Fan Provide Meaning in Life?	7
Dealing With Statistical Significance in Big Data: The Social Media Value of Game Outcomes in Professional Football	7
“Germany Crashes Out of World Cup”: A Mixed-Method Study on the Effects of Crisis Communication on Facebook	7
Great Expectations: A Critical Review of Interorganizational Relationships in Amateur Sport	6
Navigating a White, Male Space: The Lived Experiences of Black, Female Ice Hockey Fans	6
The Political Economy of Mass Sport Participation Legacies From Large-Scale Sport Events: A Conceptual Paper	6
Does the Game Matter? Analyzing Sponsorship Effectiveness and Message Personalization in Sport Live Broadcasts	6
Broadcaster Choice and Audience Demand for Live Sport Games: Panel Analyses of the Korea Baseball Organization	6
The Role of Team Identification on the Sponsorship Articulation–Fit Relationship	6
Addressing the Complexity of Violence Against Women in Sport: Using the World Café Method to Inform Organizational Response	6
The Gradual Normalization of Behaviors Which Might Challenge Ethical and Professional Standards in Two British Elite Sports Organizations	6
Athlete Misconduct and Team Sponsor Stock Prices: The Role of Incident Type and Media Coverage	6
Exploring (Semi) Professionalization in Women’s Team Sport Through a Continuum of Care Lens	5
Sporting Events and the Derived Demand for Hotels: Evidence From Southeastern Conference Football Games	5
“If You Ain’t First, You’re Last!” Understanding Identity Threat, Team Identification, and Advertisement Messages When Your Favorite Team Loses	5
Ownership in European Soccer, Financial Fair Play, and Performance in UEFA’s 2006–2018 Champions League Tournaments	5
“Sport is Double-Edged”: A Delphi Study of Spectator Sport and Population Health	5
Building and Sustaining Organizational Capacity in Voluntary Sports Clubs: Findings From a Longitudinal Study	5
All the News That’s Fit to Print? How the Media Frames Professional Athlete Philanthropy	5
The New Wave of Influencers: Examining College Athlete Identities and the Role of Homophily and Parasocial Relationships in Leveraging Name, Image, and Likeness	5
“Policy Analysis in Sport Management” Revisited: A Critique and Discussion	5
Sponsorship and the Resource-Based View of the Firm: Effects on the Acquisition of Resources, Demand, the Recruitment of Human Capital, and Organizational Performance	5
“Out of the Black, Into the Big Blue” on a Single Breath: Sport Event Value Co-Creation as Symbolic World-Making	5
How League and Community Affect Corporate Philanthropy in Professional Sport: A Multiple Field Embeddedness Perspective	5
A Peculiarity That Positions Sport Management	4
Toward a Better Understanding of Fair-Weather Fandom: Exploring the Role of Collective Narcissism in Basking in Reflected Glory and Cutting Off Reflected Failure	4
When a Ban Is Not a Ban: Institutional Work and the Russian Doping Scandal	4
Swinging for the Fences? Payroll, Performance, and Risk Behavior in the Major League Baseball Draft	4
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	4
It’s a Party in the MLB: An Analysis of Shirking Between Games in Major League Baseball	4
Feminine and Sexy: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Ideology and Professional Cheerleading	4
Increasing Human Capital of Coaches—An Investigation Into Individual and Organizational Factors	4
“Back in the Day, You Opened Your Mine and on You Went”: Extractives Industry Perspectives on Sport, Responsibility, and Development in Indigenous Communities in Canada	4
Subtexts of Research on Diversity in Sport Organizations: Queering Intersectional Perspectives	4
A Segmentation Analysis of American Sports Bettors by Involvement	4

Who Are We Honoring? Extending the Ebony & Ivy Discussion to Include Sport Facilities	4
Image Repair Using Social Identity Leadership: An Exploratory Analysis of the National Football League’s Response to the National Anthem Protests	3
Solving the Athleisure Myth: A Means-End Chain Analysis of Female Activewear Consumption	3
Organizational Identity Development in Sport Volunteers	3
Dead Spaces: Sport Venues and Police Stops in a Major League, Upper Midwestern City in the United States	3
What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences	3
Agency Theory and Principal–Agent Alignment Masks: An Examination of Penalties in the National Football League	3
Refereeing as a Postathletic Career Option	3
A Framework of Strategic Approaches to Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport	3
Feeling Vital by Watching Sport: The Roles of Team Identification and Stadium Attendance in Enhancing Subjective Vitality	3
What Are the Benefits of Hosting a Sporting Mega Event? Evidence From Industrial Firms in China	3
The Effect of Remote Work on Family and Work Dynamics Within the Sport Industry	3
Sports Sponsorship Announcements and Marketing Capability	3
Stadium Giveaway Promotions: How Many Items to Give and the Impact on Ticket Sales in Live Sports	3
An Investigation Into Voluntary Occupational Turnover of Sport Employees Using the Transtheoretical Model of Change	3
Exercising Power: A Critical Examination of National Collegiate Athletic Association Discourse Related to Name, Image, and Likeness	2
Privileging Practice in Sport Leadership: Applying Relational Reflexivity	2
Fan Engagement Behavior: Validation of a Theory-Based Scale	2
Analogous Forecasting for Predicting Sport Innovation Diffusion: From Business Analytics to Natural Language Processing	2
With Name, Image, and Likeness, College Sports Enters the Gig Economy	2
If You Rebuild It, Will They Come? The Impact of Renovated Sports Facilities on Total Revenue and Attendance	2
Vulnerability to Fraud in Community Sport Organizations: A Multicountry Study on the Role of Organizational Capacity	2
“Like Ships in the Night” and the Paradox of Distinctiveness for Sport Management: A Citation Network Analysis of Institutional Theory in Sport	2
Charting a New Path: Regulating College Athlete Name, Image and Likeness After NCAA v. Alston Through Collective Bargaining	2
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Black Women Diversity and Inclusion Leaders in Sport Organizations	2
Fashion Versus Comfort: Exploring the Gendered Marketing Messages of Sport Team Licensed Merchandise	2
Mega Sporting Events and Inward Foreign Direct Investment: An Investigation of the Differences Among the Types of Sporting Events and Host Countries	2
Exploring the Perception of Division I Coaches and Administrators About International Collegiate Athlete Exclusion From Name, Image, and Likeness Opportunities	2
Understanding the Global–Local Nexus in the Context of the Olympic Games: Implications for Managing Community Development Through Sport Megaevents	2
Keeping It Real or Bridging the Gap? Brand Positioning of U.S. Sport Teams in Germany and China	2
Remedying Stereotype Threat Effects in Spectator Sports	2
Bouncing Back: Unpacking the Influence of Sport Media on Consumer Resilience	2