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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Theoretical foundations for service innovation research in sport management – insights from nonprofit sport organisations	47
Demand for Chinese Super League Broadcast: An Analysis of Broadcasters’ Match Selection and TV Ratings	35
Understanding the interplay between event communications and local business decision-making using signalling theory: the case of the 2018 Commonwealth Games	34
Blind football and sporting capital: managing and sustaining participation among youth blind football players in Zimbabwe	33
Conformity to institutional logics and organizational strength of voluntary sport clubs	29
Bounded rationality or bounded morality? The National Basketball Association response to COVID-19	27
Understanding how individuals engage in match-fixing: the role of moral disengagement	27
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	23
Fitness switching costs scale (FSCS): development and assessment of higher-order reflective-formative scale	21
Participant engagement in running events and why it matters who else takes part	21
Human resource retention in sport: The impact of self-reflective job titles on job burnout and security	21
Moral disengagement and sport integrity: identifying and mitigating integrity breaches in sport management	21
Professional athlete responses to new product development: A dialectic	21
The relationship between perceived corporate social responsibility and perceived organisational performance in professional sports organisations	19
Environmental matters in sport: sustainable research in the academy	18
Gender-specific impact of age diversity on the performance of small teams: empirical evidence from professional biathlon relays	18
The determinants of stadium attendance in elite women’s football: evidence from the FA Women’s Super League	17
Topic mining of real-time discussions: what catches the attention of live-streaming esports viewers?	16
Recruitment in elite football: a network approach	16
On the importance of fixed effects over a short period of time when using sports data: a lesson from home advantage in alpine skiing	16
The determinants of Muslim women's pro-sport Hijab purchase intention: a theory of planned behavior perspective	15
Advancing women’s cycling through digital activism: a feminist critical discourse analysis	15
Leveraging sport events for sustainable sport participation: how schools contribute to sport development through events	14
Toward value co-creation in private youth sport for ‘secondary’ consumers: expert coaches’ perceptions of parent–coach collaboration	13
Sport-for-All policies in sport federations: an institutional theory perspective	13

The effects of overseas exhibition games on consumer interest: the case of the English Premier League	13
Towards hosting multi-country sport mega-events: the case of the bidding process of the 2030 FIFA Men’s World Cup	13
Female officials in Europe and their sport’s diversity climate	12
Two decades of youth sport policy research: an augmented scoping review and synthesis	12
The general and facet-specific job satisfaction of voluntary referees based on the model of effort-reward imbalance	12
Managing and sustaining cross-sector leveraging partnership in the post-event era: a case study of a provincial parasport collective	11
Multi-dimensional framework as a new way to study the management of Olympic volunteering	10
Opening the black box of the sport event volunteer’s journey: from candidate to volunteer	10
‘When we meet, we play football, it reminds me of home': emotions, institutional work, and sport-for-development and peace	10
Agency in institutionalized sport organizations: examining how institutions suppress agency	10
Trained to be sexist: operationalizing institutional logics in the co-construction of gendered discourse in sport	10
Match officials and abuse: a systematic review	10
The financial challenges of hosting sports events: a problem of insufficient separation between decision-making and decision-control	9
The politics of organizing indigenous sport – cross-border and cross-sectoral complexity	9
Exploring volunteer engagement in a mega sport events: the role of functional attitudes	9
The persuasive impact of athlete racial advocacy on individuals’ cognitive responses: evidence from survey experiments in Japan	9
No long-term consequences for social irresponsibility? Adidas’ rent incident during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany	8
How did regular sports bettors behave during covid-19 lockdown? Evidence from Poland	8
Trust in fairness, doping, and the demand for sports: a study on international track and field events	8
Relationship quality in sport: a systematic quantitative literature review	8
An expanded psychological capital (A-HERO) construct for creativity: building a competitive advantage for sport organisations	8
Local resident support for hosting a major sport event: the role of perceived personal and community impacts	8
Women’s football subculture of misogyny: the escalation to online gender-based violence	8
The professionalization tension in women’s sport: the case of women’s basketball in Australia	8
An insight into physical activity across domains: implications for depression and perceived health	8
Enhancing on-pitch learning capabilities with data analytics and technologies in elite sports	8
Charity running event for homelessness: the framing effects on prosocial behavioral intentions	7
A losing battle? Women’s sport pre- and post-COVID-19	7
When team sponsorship of cause-related messages leads to unfavorable fan reactions: the interplay among competency, cause orientation, and message source	7
Awards are career catalysts for young talents in association football	7
Organizational experience and cost-cutting agreements in the Formula One industry: a dynamic capabilities approach	7
When jokes aren’t funny: banter and abuse in the everyday work environments of professional football	7
A re-inquiry of the emotion spillover effect using psychophysiological approaches: how game outcome and process influence cognitive processing of TV commercial	7
Sport management and COVID-19: trends and legacies	7
Success interrupted: exploring how supporters interpret their team's success in a postponed competition	7
Racial and gender inequality regimes in sport: occupational segregation and wage gaps in the U.S. spectator sports industry	7
You’ll never want to watch alone: the effect of displaying in-stadium social atmospherics on media consumers’ responses to new sport leagues across different types of media	6
Decision-making in professional football: an empirical analysis of club members’ voting behaviour	6
Exploring identity work of LGBT+ volunteers in sport through personas: the advocate, the community-minded and the sportsperson	6
Taking stock of sport management research in the new millenia – research contributions, worthwhile knowledge, and the field’s raison d’être	6
Code Red for Elite Sport. A critique of sustainability in elite sport and a tentative reform programme	6
The creation of shared value in the major sport event ecosystem: understanding the role of sponsors and hosts	6
Partnerships in collegiate sport clubs: a social exchange perspective	6
Audience perceptions of athletes’ brand self-presentation on social media	6
Unlocking value: exploring digital transformation's influence on knowledge management of national football associations	5
The numbers game: quantifying good governance in sport	5
The impact of British sporting achievements on national pride among adults in England	5
The shift in sports viewing: scale development and validation for mediated sports consumption motivation	5
The scarlet letter: impacts of moral emotions and attribution type on athlete stigmatization	5
Social impact of events: advancing insights on social impact scales	5

Professor Chris Gratton: an obituary	5
Assessing key performance indicators of corporate social responsibility initiatives in sport	5
A three-dimensional model of innovation within Flemish non-profit sports organisations	4
Branding governance in international recurring sports events: the World Rugby ‘Sevens’ Series	4
Towards an inductive model of customer experience in fitness clubs: a structural topic modeling approach	4
Ukrainian refugees and the Swedish sports movement – new opportunities and challenges	4
Industry hierarchy in team sport industries, team tactics and competitive advantage: the empty goal option in league handball	4
Integrating emotions into legitimacy work: an institutional work perspective on new sport emergence	4
Modelling public trust in elite sport institutions: a theoretical synthesis and empirical test	4
Differences in residents’ social impact perception of a cycling event based on the fear of the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Salary determination in professional football: empirical evidence from goalkeepers	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
Athlete activism and attendance behavior in the National Football League	4
Exploring the effect of community institutional forces on corporate philanthropy in professional sport	4
A study of event brand image, destination image, event, and destination loyalty among international sport tourists	4
Reconceptualizing a model of demonstration effects: integrating rational, affective, and behavioral constructs	4
A bright spot for a small league: social media performance in a football league without a COVID-19 lockdown	4
The digital transformation of value co-creation: a scoping review towards an agenda for sport marketing research	4
Impacts of career commitment, gender, and job position on turnover intentions among athletic department employees: a moderated mediation model	4
An extended source attractiveness model: the advertising effectiveness of distinct athlete endorser attractiveness types and its contextual variation	4
Examining the development of human rights strategies for large-scale sport events: the case of the United Bid for the FIFA Men’s World Cup 2026	4
eSports: the need for a structured support system for players	4
Athlete career transitions: a systematic review and future directions for sport management research	3
Exploring the collaborative governance of Olympic stadium renovations: a multiple case study	3
Investigating top-down and bottom-up strategic alignment of event leveraging outcomes: the case of the 2021 UCI Road World Championships	3
Female volunteer community sport officials: a scoping review and research agenda	3
Host community salience loss across major sport event planning	3
Olympic Games Reloaded: can the Olympic Agenda 2020 push residents’ support for the mega-event?	3
Understanding resident support towards the 2030 FIFA World Cup: a co-hosting country’s perspective	3
The role of external partners in shaping the organizational capacity of collegiate sport clubs: a Delphi study	3
Internationalisation strategy in sport: the case of Flamengo, the largest Brazilian football club	3
The societal impact of elite sport: positives and negatives: introduction to ESMQ special issue	3
The economist who stripped professional sport of its monopoly: homage to Professor Stefan Kesenne (1950–2021)	3
Superboosting the athlete social media brand: events as an opportunity for follower growth	3
Investigating the role of stakeholders in leveraging sustainability strategies in sports	3
Rethinking brand management within sport: advancing towards the integrative sport brand ecosystem (ISBE)	3
Understanding organisation public relations through Twitter communication for the European super league	3
Developing an elite sports’ public value proposition in Northern Netherlands	3
Major sport stadia, water resources and climate change: impacts and adaptation	3