Sporting hyperchallenges: Health, social, and fiscal implications

Lamont, Matthew James; Kennelly, Millicent

doi:10.1016/j.smr.2018.02.003

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“…Therefore, according to this normative perspective, event organisers are obliged to consider their impact on NPE for ethical reasons irrespective of whether event organisers consider NPE a priority or not. This reasoning echoes suggestions by Lamont and Kennelly (2018) that partaking in extreme forms of participatory sport events, could 'result in harm to participants and those close to them,' especially an athlete's spouse and family (p. 2). They proposed:…”

Section: Npe As Stakeholders Of Participatory Sport Eventssupporting

confidence: 70%

Experiences of amateur athletes’ non-participating entourage at participatory sport events

Kennelly

Lamont

Hillman

et al. 2018

Journal of Sport & Tourism

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The proliferation of participatory sport events is attracting scholarly attention, with extant research primarily focusing on profiling participants, and understanding participants' experiences. The experiences and perspectives of those who travel to participatory sport events to support competing athletes, the 'non-participating entourage' (NPE), have largely been overlooked. This stakeholder group is arguably under-recognised by those staging participatory sport events. The purpose of this study was to explore NPE experiences at participatory sport events, adopting a phenomenological approach and employing stakeholder theory as an interpretive lens. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 21 NPE of amateur athletes in Australia. Findings highlighted that NPE provide emotional and logistical support to their athlete at events. However, while providing support, NPE also experienced positive and negative emotions arising from contextual factors including their relationship to the athlete, group composition, athlete performance, and event design and conditions. This research highlights a vexed, though crucial stakeholder relationship between NPE and event management organisations, requiring unique stakeholder management strategies.

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Section: Npe As Stakeholders Of Participatory Sport Eventssupporting

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Experiences of amateur athletes’ non-participating entourage at participatory sport events

Kennelly

Lamont

Hillman

et al. 2018

Journal of Sport & Tourism

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“…Currently, the marathon is mainly studied from two perspectives. Several studies have considered runners as research subjects and examined the relationship between running a marathon and body functions, as well as the regular patterns [1][2][3][4], psychological impacts [5][6][7] and their cognition [8][9][10][11][12]; while others took competitions as the subject and focused on the sociological aspects, such as entertaining function [13][14][15], fiscal implications [16,17] and marketing and management [18,19]. At present, the studies on Chinese marathons have focused on certain fields, such as physiology [20,21], psychology [22] and sociology [23,24].…”

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The Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Marathons in China from 2010 to 2018

Zuo

Zou

Zhang

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The purpose of this study is to explore the spatial distribution pattern and influencing factors of the Chinese marathon. Geographic Information System (GIS) related spatial analysis tools were used to calculate the following-averaged nearest neighbor index, nuclear density analysis and hot spot analysis among others. The spatial distribution evolution characteristics and the influencing factors of eighteen Chinese marathon events in 2010, 129 in 2015 and 342 in 2018 were analyzed. The results show that (a) in 2010 the nearest neighbor ratio was 1.164714, Moran's I was −0.010165 (type: Random), in 2015 it was 0.502146, Moran's I was 0.066267 (type: Clustered) and in 2018 it was 0.531149 and Moran's I was 0.083485 (type: Clustered); (b) in 2010 there was a 333.6 km search radius; the core circle of the Yangtze River Delta was adopted. In 2015 and 2018, a search radius of 556 km was adopted, which was respectively obtained from the core circle of the Yangtze River Delta, the core circle of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the core circle of East China; (c) according to the Z-value data, East China and North China in 2015 passed 95% confidence in five provinces and municipal hot spots, passed 90% confidence in three hot spots and passed 95% confidence in Chongqing Cold Point. In 2018, East China, North China, Central Region and eight other provinces and cities' hot spots passed 95% confidence, four hot spots passed 90% confidence, the Tibet Autonomous Region cold spot passed 90% confidence. Conclusion: The overall distribution of marathon events is greater in the eastern region than the western region, greater in the southern region than the northern region and greater in coastal regions than the inland regions; the nuclear density distribution has spread from the Yangtze River Delta mononuclear circle in 2010 to the core circle of the entire East China region. Moreover, it spread to North China, Central China and South China; the distribution of hot spots spread from Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the entire North China and East China regions. During the past thirty-eight years of development of the Chinese marathon, it has been divided into three stages due to different political, economic and social environments.

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“…But what is its responsibility in regard to health and safety? Lamont and Kennelly (2019) raise the question of what sport event management organizers' ethical responsibility is in regard to hyperchallenge events in which athletes take on risks to their health and personal life. The NBA is making decisions that ask players and coaches to take on known risks to their health, including short and long-term consequences of contracting COVID-19, as well as mental health challenges related to being sequestered on the league's campus for months.…”

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“…The NBA is making decisions that ask players and coaches to take on known risks to their health, including short and long-term consequences of contracting COVID-19, as well as mental health challenges related to being sequestered on the league's campus for months. While players and coacheslike the hyperchallenge athletes in Lamont and Kennelly (2019) knowingly accept these risks, we question whether it is ethical for the league to ask them to take them.…”

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Bounded rationality or bounded morality? The National Basketball Association response to COVID-19

Hindman

Walker

Agyemang

2021

European Sport Management Quarterly

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Research question: The COVID-19 pandemic created a crisis rife with complexity and ethical dilemmas for sport organizations. The purpose of this study is to examine the decision-making process of one such organization, the National Basketball Association (NBA), during the pandemic. Specifically, we draw from theories on decision-making and business ethics to understand how decisions were made. Research methods: We conducted an inductive qualitative content analysis on NBA media coverage between 21 January and 10 July 2020. A total of 152 articles were identified and included in an analysis from ESPN.com, the most prominent sports news outlet in the United States. Results and findings: Findings suggest that decision-making in the NBA was characterized by the cognitive limits of bounded rationality and the moral limits of bounded morality. The NBA's decision-making process swayed between caution and risk as priorities shifted, with the league, teams, and players focusing on various repercussions to health and safety, finances, and competitive advantage. Implications: This research expands understanding of how crises such as a pandemic impact decision-making in sport organizations. In addition, it highlights how bounded rationality and morality affect decision-making in situations that are complex, time-sensitive, and include moral conflicts, which sport organization leaders may frequently encounter.

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Sporting hyperchallenges: Health, social, and fiscal implications

Cited by 23 publications

References 54 publications

Experiences of amateur athletes’ non-participating entourage at participatory sport events

Experiences of amateur athletes’ non-participating entourage at participatory sport events

The Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Marathons in China from 2010 to 2018

Bounded rationality or bounded morality? The National Basketball Association response to COVID-19

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