“Let the Marketplace be the Judge”: The Founders Reflect on the Origins and Trajectory of NASSM

Bowers, Matthew T.; Green, B. Christine; Seifried, Chad

doi:10.1123/jsm.2012-0335

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“…The method selected for this project was the Delphi method. The Delphi method is a consensus generating approach that has been used in sport management to determine the future of the sport management field (Costa, 2005); environmental responsibility in sport facilities (Mallen et al 2010); health promotion factors in community sport clubs (Kokko, Kannas and Villberg, 2006;Kelly et al 2014); steroid use in high school sports (Woolf and Swain, 2014) and professionalisation in sport management practice in the North American Society for Sport Management (Bowers, Green and Seifried, 2014).…”

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Community sports clubs: are they only about playing sport, or do they have broader health promotion and social responsibilities?

Robertson

Eime

Westerbeek

2018

Annals of Leisure Research

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Community sport organisations face increasing pressure from stakeholders to devote resources to activities that help them appear as being socially responsible actors in society.This study extends the concept of social responsibility from the corporate sport domain to investigate the relative importance of social responsibilities for community sport clubs. Items were developed from the Global Reporting Initiative and International Standards Organisation guidance on socially responsible organisations. A three-wave Delphi study was conducted internationally with 33 sport management academics and 23 national sport organisation managers. This study found that community sport clubs are primarily responsible for enhancing sport participation, creating a safe and inclusive environment, and ensuring the club is economically and legally sound. It is concluded that for sport clubs to be socially responsible organisations, their focus should be on fulfilling obligations that meaningfully impact their community, before devoting scarce resources to activities beyond their immediate capacity.

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Community sports clubs: are they only about playing sport, or do they have broader health promotion and social responsibilities?

Robertson

Eime

Westerbeek

2018

Annals of Leisure Research

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“…With the neo-liberalization of education (Bowers et al, 2014; Thiele, 2008) and the global trend towards a market-driven orientation, higher education institutions are called on to fulfil the requirements of specific labour markets. To be successful in this assignment, there needs to be a bilateral notion of what the future labour market will need (importance) and what future graduates will provide (performance).…”

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Using importance–performance analysis to bridge the information gap between industry and higher education

Wohlfart

Hovemann

2019

Industry and Higher Education

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The goal of this viewpoint article is to introduce, critically analyse and further develop importance–performance analysis (IPA) as a framework through which strategic management recommendations can be extracted for higher education institutions. The article introduces a new method of combining the perspectives of two significant groups to bridge the information gap between industry and higher education by exploring the results of two differing IPA variants from the context of sport management. The first IPA matches the importance and performance of future competencies based on statements solely derived from the labour market. The second explores the same importance measures in comparison to performance measures derived from current graduates. The authors discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each analysis and recommend the use of this framework in the effort to decrease the existing information asymmetry between industry and higher education.

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“…The sport management academe was founded on the principle that, while a strong theoretical base is essential, sport research must be "sensible and useful" in managerial practice (Paton, 1987, p. 30). However, scholars often opt to focus on either theoretical or practical perspectives (though sometimes shedding light on both; Bowers et al, 2014) by conceptualizing theories and testing their relevance to practical applications (de Wilde et al, 2010). While strong theories serve as an important, critical foundation for moving the field forward (Doherty, 2013a;Lachance et al, 2023;Zhang et al, 2015), applied sport research has the ability to inform theory (Irwin and Ryan, 2013;Sutton, 2012).…”

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“…The sport management academe was founded on the principle that, while a strong theoretical base is essential, sport research must be “sensible and useful” in managerial practice (Paton, 1987, p. 30). However, scholars often opt to focus on either theoretical or practical perspectives (though sometimes shedding light on both; Bowers et al. , 2014) by conceptualizing theories and testing their relevance to practical applications (de Wilde et al.…”

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Scoping practical implications and managerial relevance in sport management

Mastromartino,

Naraine,

Dees

et al. 2023

SBM

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PurposeThere remains a critical issue in sport management scholarship in that the field lacks a well-defined framework for delineating practical implications in research. This research aims to answer the following research questions: (1) What types of practical implications can be identified in sport management research? (2) How can sport management research frame the practical implications of the study in a way that is both theoretically sound and useful for practitioners?Design/methodology/approachThrough a scoping review and within the lens of Jaworski (2011)'s framework for managerial relevance, the study examined 427 articles from European Sport Management Quarterly, Journal of Sport Management and Sport Management Review published between 2000 and 2020.FindingsThis study presents a five-pronged framework that identifies target managers, organizational tasks, time horizons, philosophical impact and desired outcomes. Furthermore, the current research offers suggestions for how to present managerial implications in sport management research.Originality/valueThe findings shed light on the managerial relevance of the recent sport management body of work, developing an important framework for practical implications for the field to reflect and incorporate into future studies. With a theoretical understanding of how to frame the practical implications of sport management research, the gap between academia and industry can continue to narrow, and the relevance to the industry may be more pertinent than ever before.

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“Let the Marketplace be the Judge”: The Founders Reflect on the Origins and Trajectory of NASSM

Cited by 20 publications

References 45 publications

Community sports clubs: are they only about playing sport, or do they have broader health promotion and social responsibilities?

Community sports clubs: are they only about playing sport, or do they have broader health promotion and social responsibilities?

Using importance–performance analysis to bridge the information gap between industry and higher education

Scoping practical implications and managerial relevance in sport management

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