OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Sport Management is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Rivalry in Sport: Understanding Fan Behavior and Organizations	41
Sponsorship in Marketing: Effective Partnerships in Sports, Arts, and Events (2nd Ed.)	38
Changing the Game: My Career in Collegiate Sports Marketing	32
Charting Their Own Path: Using Life Course Theory to Explore the Careers of Gay Men Working in Sport	31
Athlete Misconduct and Team Sponsor Stock Prices: The Role of Incident Type and Media Coverage	30
The Antecedents of Shared Leadership in Sport for Development and Peace Collaboratives	27
The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society	23
Exploring the Perception of Division I Coaches and Administrators About International Collegiate Athlete Exclusion From Name, Image, and Likeness Opportunities	22
Mother-Coaches’ Experiences of Policy and Programs: “Whoever Wrote This Policy Doesn’t Understand What It Means to Be a Mom”	20
Renewable Energy Source Diffusion in Professional Sport Facilities	20
Owner–Resident Ideological Divergence and Firm Performance: Evidence From Major League Baseball	19
The Strength of Community: The Role of Social Support Networks in Sport Officials’ Retention	19
Special Issue Introduction: Name, Image, and Likeness and the National Collegiate Athletic Association	17
“Like Ships in the Night” and the Paradox of Distinctiveness for Sport Management: A Citation Network Analysis of Institutional Theory in Sport	16
New Evidence in the Study of Shirking in Major League Baseball	16
Privileging Practice in Sport Leadership: Applying Relational Reflexivity	15
Working in the Sport Industry: A Classification of Human Capital Archetypes	14
Tracing Gender Allyship and the Role of Awareness in Addressing the Gender Leadership Gap in Sport Organizations	12
A Resource-Based View of Organizational Sustainability in Sport for Development	12
A Longitudinal Study of Power Relations in a British Olympic Sport Organization	11
The New Wave of Influencers: Examining College Athlete Identities and the Role of Homophily and Parasocial Relationships in Leveraging Name, Image, and Likeness	11
What Does Entrepreneurship Add to the Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility Management in Sport?	10
Remapping the Sport Brandscape: A Structured Review and Future Direction for Sport Brand Research	10
Feeling Vital by Watching Sport: The Roles of Team Identification and Stadium Attendance in Enhancing Subjective Vitality	10
Does Being a Sport Fan Provide Meaning in Life?	9

An Analysis of Identity Conflict Among Health-Conscious Sport Fans	9
The Impact of Augmented Reality Technology on Sport Spectators’ Psychological and Behavioral Responses: The Role of Sensitization and Habituation	8
Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations	8
How League and Community Affect Corporate Philanthropy in Professional Sport: A Multiple Field Embeddedness Perspective	8
Player Tracking, Shot Charts, and the National Basketball Association’s Three-Point Revolution: A Technology-Based Misspecification in a Primary Sport Management Setting?	8
What Support Do Australian Sporting Organizational Policies Provide to Pregnant and Parenting Elite Athletes? A Scoping Review	8
Critical Discourse Analysis as Theory, Methodology, and Analyses in Sport Management Studies	8
“What Have I Learned … ” and How Did I Get There? Reflection on a Research Journey	7
Interactive Mechanisms to Improve Service Innovation Among Sports Clubs: A Consumer Perspective	7
A Peculiarity That Positions Sport Management	7
Vulnerability to Fraud in Community Sport Organizations: A Multicountry Study on the Role of Organizational Capacity	6
Examining the Efficacy of a Government-Led Sport for Development and Peace Event	6
The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Sustainable Development	6
The Cinderella Strategy: The Game Plan Behind Butler University’s Rise to Prominence	6
Are “Tech-Savvy” Owners Better for Business? Evidence From Major League Baseball	6
Same Players Different Game: An Examination of the Commercial College Athletics Industry	6
What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences	6
The Digital World of Sport: The Impact of Emerging Media on Sports News, Information, and Journalism	6
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	6
Organizational-Level Factors That Influence Women Coaches’ Experiences	6
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	6
Predicting Season Ticket Holder Retention Using Rich Behavioral Data	5
A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	5
A Typology of Design Archetypes in Professional Football Leagues: Autonomy and Openness as Key Factors Explaining Design Variance	5
Playing in Front of the Bench: Courtside Selection and Its Impact on Team Performance	5
Introduction to Reflexivity in Sport Management Research	5
Introduction: State of Literature Special Issue	5
Exercising Power: A Critical Examination of National Collegiate Athletic Association Discourse Related to Name, Image, and Likeness	5
Global Sports and Contemporary China (1st ed.)	5
Understanding Season Ticket Holder Attendance Decisions	4
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport	4
Becoming an Occupation? A Research Agenda Into the Professionalization of the Sport for Development and Peace Sector	4
The Bare Supervening Necessities of Theory Development in Sport Management	4
A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Reactions to the Inaugural Tour de France Femmes Route	4
Long-Term Viewership Forecasting of American College Football Games	4
Increasing Human Capital of Coaches—An Investigation Into Individual and Organizational Factors	4
A Framework of Strategic Approaches to Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport	4
Do Consumer Perceptions of Tanking Impact Attendance at National Basketball Association Games? A Sentiment Analysis Approach	4
Ethical Club Climate and Coaching Style: Unveiling Their Role in Coach-Perpetrated Psychological Abuse of Gymnasts	4
Governance of Post-Olympic Games Legacy Organizations: A Comparative Study	4
Managing and Developing Sports Officials: Officiating Excellence	3
“The Best Teacher Is Also a Student”: Improving Qualitative Research Literacy by Learning From My Mistakes	3
The Philosophical Athlete (2nd Ed.)	3
Organizational Behavior in Sport Management: An Applied Approach to Understanding People and Groups	3
An Investigation Into Voluntary Occupational Turnover of Sport Employees Using the Transtheoretical Model of Change	3
(Un)Doing Gender Inequalities in Sport Organizations	3
Why Do Unfairly Paid Trainees Persist? Pay Fairness and Human Capital Investment in Development Leagues	3
Identity Conflict Among Politically Engaged Sport Fans: Implications for Fan Loyalty	3
Dead Spaces: Sport Venues and Police Stops in a Major League, Upper Midwestern City in the United States	3
Basketball’s Black Tax? An Examination of Historically Black College and University Men’s Basketball Guarantee Game Compensation	3

Nation Branding and Sports Diplomacy: Country Image Games in Times of Change	3
Creating New Sport Opportunities for Girls: Resource Acquisition and Mobilization Across Competitive Environments	2
Stadium Giveaway Promotions: How Many Items to Give and the Impact on Ticket Sales in Live Sports	2
Refereeing as a Postathletic Career Option	2
Team Representation: Scale Development and Validation	2
Swinging for the Fences? Payroll, Performance, and Risk Behavior in the Major League Baseball Draft	2
Motivations for Crowdinvesting in European Football Clubs	2
Entrepreneurial Bricolage and Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace Organizations	2
Professional Team Sports and the Soft Budget Constraint	2
Business the NHL Way: Lessons From the Fastest Game on Ice	2
Fan Socializing and BIRGing: The Impact of Trait Competitiveness on Fan Behaviors	2
Between Profit and Purpose: Employee Responses to Financial and Social Logics in Women’s Sport	2
Exploring Sport Employees’ Conceptualizations of Meaningful Work	2
Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem	2
“Seven Weeks Is Not a Lot of Time”: Temporal Work and Institutional Change in Australian Football	2
Conceptualizing Theory Development in Sport Management: An Introduction	2
Motivations, Barriers, and Supports: An Examination of the Experiences of Women of Color Recreational Sport Coaches	2
“Out of the Black, Into the Big Blue” on a Single Breath: Sport Event Value Co-Creation as Symbolic World-Making	2
Cross-Cultural Comparison of Satellite Fanship: A Consumer Culture Theory Perspective	1
Large-Scale Sport Events and Resident Well-Being: Examining PERMA and the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games	1
Ownership in European Soccer, Financial Fair Play, and Performance in UEFA’s 2006–2018 Champions League Tournaments	1
Finding Joy in the Journey: Sustaining a Meaningful Career in Sport Management	1
Team Identity and Environmentalism: The Case of Forest Green Rovers	1
Fashion Versus Comfort: Exploring the Gendered Marketing Messages of Sport Team Licensed Merchandise	1
No Way but to Fight: George Foreman and the Business of Boxing	1
A Dichotomy of Sport Sponsorships: Does the Nature of Competition Among Sponsors Matter?	1
Gender, Leadership, and Governance in English National Governing Bodies of Sport: Formal Structures, Rules, and Processes	1
“Slayyyed Head to Toe”: Social Media Discourses of Blackness, Queerness, Gender, and the Women’s National Basketball Association Draft	1
Mega Sporting Events and Inward Foreign Direct Investment: An Investigation of the Differences Among the Types of Sporting Events and Host Countries	1
Services in Sport Management	1
Modeling Residents’ Mega Sport Event Social Value: Integrating Social and Economic Mechanisms	1
Sponsorship and the Resource-Based View of the Firm: Effects on the Acquisition of Resources, Demand, the Recruitment of Human Capital, and Organizational Performance	1
Dealing With Statistical Significance in Big Data: The Social Media Value of Game Outcomes in Professional Football	1
Sport Clusters and Community Resilience in the United States	1
Feminine and Sexy: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Ideology and Professional Cheerleading	1
How Transfer Behavior Impacts Consumer Perceptions and Intentions Toward College Athletes Who Pursue Name, Image, and/or Likeness Activities	1
Superstars Really Are Scarce: Shohei Ohtani and Baseball Attendance	1
Social Media in Sport: Theory and Practice	1
Bouncing Back: Unpacking the Influence of Sport Media on Consumer Resilience	1
Book Review of Routledge Handbook of Football Business and Management	1
Organizational Identity Development in Sport Volunteers	1
The Attention Economy and Esports: An Econometric Analysis of Twitch Viewership	1