OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Sport Management Quarterly is 3. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Sport is not industry: bringing sport back to sport management	45
Athlete branding via social media: examining the factors influencing consumer engagement on Instagram	42
Introduction: sport and COVID-19: impacts and challenges for the future (Volume 1)	36
The impact of knowledge management on performance in nonprofit sports clubs: the mediating role of attitude toward innovation, open innovation, and innovativeness	33
Board gender diversity, critical masses, and organizational problems of non-profit sport clubs	29
From utilitarianism and neoclassical sport management to a new geopolitical economy of sport	26
A losing battle? Women’s sport pre- and post-COVID-19	24
Organisational factors for corporate social responsibility implementation in sport federations: a qualitative comparative analysis	24
Demand for public events in the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of European football	23
Service quality and its effects on consumer outcomes: a meta-analytic review in spectator sport	22
Identifying critical factors in sport consumption decision making of millennial sport fans: mixed-methods approach	20
We are in this together: sport brand involvement and fans’ well-being	20
Uncertainty of outcome, team quality or star players? What drives TV audience demand for UEFA Champions League football?	20
Has UEFA’s financial fair play regulation increased football clubs’ profitability?	19
To build my career or build my brand? Exploring the prospects, challenges and opportunities for sportswomen as human brand	19
Determinants of coopetition and contingency of strategic choices: the case of professional football clubs in France	19
The digital transformation of value co-creation: a scoping review towards an agenda for sport marketing research	18
eSports: the need for a structured support system for players	17
Sport management and COVID-19: trends and legacies	17
Participatory sport events in times of COVID-19: analysing the (virtual) sport behaviour of event participants	17
Becoming more than an athlete: developing an athlete's personal brand using strategic philanthropy	16
A balancing act: women players in a new semi-Professional team sport league	15
‘Going the extra mile’ in resource integration: evolving a concept of sport sponsorship as an engagement platform	15
Female fans and social media: micro-communities and the formation of social capital	14
Environmental sustainability in sport: a systematic literature review	14

Creating shared value and sport employees’ job performance: the mediating effect of work engagement	14
Differences in residents’ social impact perception of a cycling event based on the fear of the COVID-19 pandemic	14
When sponsorship causes anger: understanding negative fan reactions to postings on sports clubs’ online social media channels	14
The (un)level playing field: sport media during COVID-19	13
Assessing key performance indicators of corporate social responsibility initiatives in sport	13
Local resident support for hosting a major sport event: the role of perceived personal and community impacts	13
From engaged worker to workaholic: a mediated model of athletic department employees	12
Sport-for-All policies in sport federations: an institutional theory perspective	12
Naming the ghost of capitalism in sport management	11
National sport organization governance design archetypes for the twenty-first century	11
An expanded psychological capital (A-HERO) construct for creativity: building a competitive advantage for sport organisations	11
Female volunteer community sport officials: a scoping review and research agenda	11
The impact of perceived corporate social responsibility on value-in-use through customer engagement in non-profit sports clubs: the moderating role of co-production	11
Exploring the role of fitness instructors’ interaction quality skills in building customer trust in the service provider and customer satisfaction	10
The deployment of professional football clubs’ eSports strategies: a dynamic capabilities approach	10
Information leakage in the football transfer market	10
A mediasport typology for transformative relationships: enlargement, enhancement, connection and engagement beyond COVID-19	10
The role of critical reflection as an employability skill in sport management	10
Searching for sport employee creativity: a mixed-methods exploration	10
Antecedents and consequences of perceived fan participation in the decision making of professional European football clubs	10
Psychic income benefits of small-scale sports events: host community perspectives	9
Football players and asset manipulation: the management of football transfers in Italian Serie A	9
The pursuit of legitimacy through strategic alliances: the examination of international joint sport event bidding	9
Code Red for Elite Sport. A critique of sustainability in elite sport and a tentative reform programme	9
Striving for excellence: talent identification and development in English football refereeing	8
The Muslim community and sport scholarship: a scoping review to advance sport management research	8
Are diversified football clubs better prepared for a crisis? First empirical evidence from the stock market	8
Analysis from a gender perspective of the Olympic Games on Twitter	8
Match officials and abuse: a systematic review	8
Sports facilities’ location and participation in sports among working adults	8
The complexities of implementing inclusion policies for disabled people in UK non-disabled voluntary community sports clubs	8
Does relatedness drive the diversification of countries’ success in sports?	8
Every loser wins: leveraging ‘unsuccessful’ Olympic bids for positive benefits	7
Bounded rationality or bounded morality? The National Basketball Association response to COVID-19	7
Relative age effect on the market value of elite European football players: a balanced sample approach	7
The impact of British sporting achievements on national pride among adults in England	7
Leader-member exchange and turnover intention among collegiate student-athletes: the mediating role of psychological empowerment and the moderating role of psychological contract breach in competitive	7
Saturday in the stadium: on higher attendance on Saturdays in Norwegian Eliteserien soccer league	7
The creation of shared value in the major sport event ecosystem: understanding the role of sponsors and hosts	7
Topic mining of real-time discussions: what catches the attention of live-streaming esports viewers?	7
A systematic review of governance principles in sport	6
Identifying the field of Olympic education: a meta-narrative review	6
Taking stock of sport management research in the new millenia – research contributions, worthwhile knowledge, and the field’s raison d’être	6
Consumer behaviour toward a new league and teams: television audiences as a measure of market acceptance	6
A systematic literature review of charity sport event sponsorship	6
An extended source attractiveness model: the advertising effectiveness of distinct athlete endorser attractiveness types and its contextual variation	6
Understanding sport sponsorship decision-making – an exploration of the roles and power bases in the sponsors’ buying center	6
I want to ride my bicycle! Or not? Health and transportation legacies of the 2017 World Road Cycling Championship	6
Does local sporting success affect sport participation? An examination of Danish professional soccer's effect on club membership	6
A bright spot for a small league: social media performance in a football league without a COVID-19 lockdown	6

How did regular sports bettors behave during covid-19 lockdown? Evidence from Poland	6
Co-created value influences residents’ support toward the sporting event through the mediating mechanism of gratitude	6
Sport management: mission and meaning for a new era	5
Human rights issues in host countries of the Olympic Games and resulting differences in consumer evaluations	5
Major sport stadia, water resources and climate change: impacts and adaptation	5
On the importance of fixed effects over a short period of time when using sports data: a lesson from home advantage in alpine skiing	5
Sport scandal and fan response: the importance of ambi-fans	5
The societal impact of elite sport: positives and negatives: introduction to ESMQ special issue	5
Tenure matters for team cohesion and performance: the moderating role of trust in the coach	5
Environmental matters in sport: sustainable research in the academy	5
Toward an enduring football economy: a business model taxonomy for Europe's professional football clubs	5
Perceived service innovation in non-profit sports clubs: the antecedents and consequence	5
Are sport organisations environmentally sustainable? – A website analysis of sport federations in Belgium	5
Analysis of the sports broadcasting market in the television broadcasting industry	5
Moral disengagement and sport integrity: identifying and mitigating integrity breaches in sport management	5
Comparing competitive balance between genders in team sports	4
Image congruity in the love triangle among mega sport event organizer, sponsor, and consumers: the moderating effects of product involvement and consumer awareness	4
New insights on the Louis-Schmeling paradox: determinants of demand for subscription and pay-per-view boxing	4
Big games in small places: the African Youth Games and organisational capacity in Botswana sport federations	4
Social impact of events: advancing insights on social impact scales	4
The politics of organizing indigenous sport – cross-border and cross-sectoral complexity	4
Effect of ambush marketing on attitude and purchase intention in the social media context: misidentification and identification	4
Conceptualising the inspirational effect of elite sport: a case study of field hockey in Belgium	4
Trust within sport NGB boards: association with board structure and board member characteristics	4
The need for a violence prevention programme in ice hockey: a case study on how hegemonic masculinity supports and challenges violent behaviour in Swedish ice hockey	4
The social value of co-hosting: rethinking the management of sports events	4
Salary determination in professional football: empirical evidence from goalkeepers	4
A study of event brand image, destination image, event, and destination loyalty among international sport tourists	4
Trust in fairness, doping, and the demand for sports: a study on international track and field events	4
‘The tweeting sponsor’: effect of a sponsor’s SNS message articulation/interactivity on consumers’ online response	4
Event leverage: a systematic literature review and new research agenda	4
Hosting the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games and wellbeing among Canadian youth	4
Sport entrepreneurs’ performance in business	4
Beyond the host nation: an investigation of trickle-down effects in the ‘Hometowns’ of Canadian athletes who competed at the London 2012 Olympic Games	4
The financial challenges of hosting sports events: a problem of insufficient separation between decision-making and decision-control	4
Racial and gender inequality regimes in sport: occupational segregation and wage gaps in the U.S. spectator sports industry	4
Branding governance in international recurring sports events: the World Rugby ‘Sevens’ Series	3
When team sponsorship of cause-related messages leads to unfavorable fan reactions: the interplay among competency, cause orientation, and message source	3
Recruitment in elite football: a network approach	3
Leveraging sport events for sustainable sport participation: how schools contribute to sport development through events	3
An examination of the changes on facilitators and constraints during lifelong participation in surfing	3
Contest incentives, team effort, and betting market outcomes in European football	3
Strategic processes in Australian golf clubs: a dynamic capabilities view	3
Developing an elite sports’ public value proposition in Northern Netherlands	3
The effects of health, social, and consumption capital on running-related expenditures in China	3
Reconceptualizing a model of demonstration effects: integrating rational, affective, and behavioral constructs	3
The scarlet letter: impacts of moral emotions and attribution type on athlete stigmatization	3
Modelling public trust in elite sport institutions: a theoretical synthesis and empirical test	3
The professionalization tension in women’s sport: the case of women’s basketball in Australia	3
The general and facet-specific job satisfaction of voluntary referees based on the model of effort-reward imbalance	3
Political relations and sports: exploring the demand for relocated soccer games	3
Leadership in and out of the sport boardroom: new empirical insights	3
Elite athletes with disabilities marketability and branding strategies: professional agents’ perspectives	3
‘Turning the tanker around’. Examining the requirements, interpretations and implementation of The Equality Standard: a Framework for Sport	3
Partnerships in collegiate sport clubs: a social exchange perspective	3
Discouragement effect and alternative formats to increase suspense in professional biathlon	3
Decision-making in professional football: an empirical analysis of club members’ voting behaviour	3
Exploring volunteer engagement in a mega sport events: the role of functional attitudes	3
Fitness switching costs scale (FSCS): development and assessment of higher-order reflective-formative scale	3
Participant engagement in running events and why it matters who else takes part	3
The impact of live broadcasting on stadium attendance reconsidered: some evidence from 3rd division football in Germany	3
The gatekeepers of sport governance – nomination committees’ shaping potential in national sport organizations’ board composition processes	3
How value is disrupted in football fandom, and how fans respond	3
Processes of political, cultural, and social fragmentation: changes in the macro-environment of sport policy and management: c.1980–c.2022	3
Superboosting the athlete social media brand: events as an opportunity for follower growth	3
Building a brand portfolio: the case of English Football League (EFL) clubs	3