... The findings reveal that financing players’ careers in Africa follows a pecking order. Footballers initially rely on cheap internal financing sources (family and personal efforts) before turning to external, debt-like and equity-based support (community sponsors, local managers and agents) to pursue...

.... The paper asks whether the Pro14 has been a success and whether it might offer lessons for other sports. It thus seeks to extend the knowledge base on professional team sports and derive lessons for management of professional sports leagues in small countries. Design/methodology/approach The authors...

... 06 2020 12 10 2020 03 05 2021 25 06 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Management Concentration Dominance Competitive balance Asian football Women's football Plumley and Flint (2015) conducted...

...Rob Wilson; Daniel Plumley; Stuart William Flint Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of managerial change in the English football industry. The authors’ theoretical discussion covers three contrasting concepts that attempt to explain the association between manager change...

...Richard Edward Oddy; Tom Bason Purpose In 2016, Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal (SBM) published its 100th article. While a number of other journals have been analysed as to their content, no such study has yet been applied to SBM. The purpose...

... professional football and the sport of rugby league. Being the last of the top four team sports (football, cricket, rugby union, rugby league) in the UK to move into a professional structure coupled with a reluctance on behalf of the Rugby Football Union to manage the transition to a professional set-up led...

... that are controlled by family units that have either established the sport in the first instance, or come to dominate its governance through the exertion of power and money (Choudhary and Ghosh, 2013 ; Bellow, 2004). Management Legitimacy Olympic Sport organizations Elections Ethical governance...

... so that it provides athletes with the opportunity to conduct final physical and mental preparations away from distractions, acclimatize to the time zone and climate (if required), become part of a greater national team, and adjust to a multi-sport elite environment. Management Environment...

...Eric MacIntosh; A. Lauren Couture; Kirsty Spence Purpose – The primary purpose of this paper is to explore stakeholder perceptions of an international sport for development program so as to identify some of the management challenges within a strategic management framework. The secondary purpose...

... management and further research. Design/methodology/approach – A comprehensive reading of the extant scientific literature and a critical assessment of its conceptual and methodological foundations. Findings – The assumptions guiding the coach succession are not based on insights about...

... accurately represents sport management‐specific situations. Research limitations/implications The main limitation of this study is that it lacks generalizability. Although motivated to better understand not‐for‐profit sport in general, the authors’ model is specific to OUA men's hockey teams. However...