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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding the interplay between event communications and local business decision-making using signalling theory: the case of the 2018 Commonwealth Games	49
Two decades of youth sport policy research: an augmented scoping review and synthesis	43
Conformity to institutional logics and organizational strength of voluntary sport clubs	40
Theoretical foundations for service innovation research in sport management – insights from nonprofit sport organisations	40
Understanding how individuals engage in match-fixing: the role of moral disengagement	38
Moral disengagement and sport integrity: identifying and mitigating integrity breaches in sport management	34
Participant engagement in running events and why it matters who else takes part	31
Professional athlete responses to new product development: A dialectic	30
Human resource retention in sport: The impact of self-reflective job titles on job burnout and security	28
The relationship between perceived corporate social responsibility and perceived organisational performance in professional sports organisations	25
Fitness switching costs scale (FSCS): development and assessment of higher-order reflective-formative scale	25
Gender-specific impact of age diversity on the performance of small teams: empirical evidence from professional biathlon relays	23
Recruitment in elite football: a network approach	23
Topic mining of real-time discussions: what catches the attention of live-streaming esports viewers?	22
Leveraging sport events for sustainable sport participation: how schools contribute to sport development through events	21
Environmental matters in sport: sustainable research in the academy	21
Advancing women’s cycling through digital activism: a feminist critical discourse analysis	21
On the importance of fixed effects over a short period of time when using sports data: a lesson from home advantage in alpine skiing	21
The effects of overseas exhibition games on consumer interest: the case of the English Premier League	20
Toward value co-creation in private youth sport for ‘secondary’ consumers: expert coaches’ perceptions of parent–coach collaboration	17
Towards hosting multi-country sport mega-events: the case of the bidding process of the 2030 FIFA Men’s World Cup	16
The general and facet-specific job satisfaction of voluntary referees based on the model of effort-reward imbalance	16
Sport-for-All policies in sport federations: an institutional theory perspective	16
Female officials in Europe and their sport’s diversity climate	15
The determinants of stadium attendance in elite women’s football: evidence from the FA Women’s Super League	14

Demand for Chinese Super League Broadcast: An Analysis of Broadcasters’ Match Selection and TV Ratings	13
Local resident support for hosting a major sport event: the role of perceived personal and community impacts	12
The determinants of Muslim women's pro-sport Hijab purchase intention: a theory of planned behavior perspective	12
Multi-club ownerships (MCOs): a critical analysis of transfer dynamics and sports integrity	12
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	12
Blind football and sporting capital: managing and sustaining participation among youth blind football players in Zimbabwe	12
When jokes aren’t funny: banter and abuse in the everyday work environments of professional football	11
No long-term consequences for social irresponsibility? Adidas’ rent incident during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany	11
Managing and sustaining cross-sector leveraging partnership in the post-event era: a case study of a provincial parasport collective	11
Success interrupted: exploring how supporters interpret their team's success in a postponed competition	11
Racial and gender inequality regimes in sport: occupational segregation and wage gaps in the U.S. spectator sports industry	10
An expanded psychological capital (A-HERO) construct for creativity: building a competitive advantage for sport organisations	10
Exploring volunteer engagement in a mega sport events: the role of functional attitudes	10
Multi-dimensional framework as a new way to study the management of Olympic volunteering	10
When team sponsorship of cause-related messages leads to unfavorable fan reactions: the interplay among competency, cause orientation, and message source	10
Audience perceptions of athletes’ brand self-presentation on social media	10
Enhancing on-pitch learning capabilities with data analytics and technologies in elite sports	9
Women’s football subculture of misogyny: the escalation to online gender-based violence	9
Trust in fairness, doping, and the demand for sports: a study on international track and field events	9
Code Red for Elite Sport. A critique of sustainability in elite sport and a tentative reform programme	9
Charity running event for homelessness: the framing effects on prosocial behavioral intentions	8
The persuasive impact of athlete racial advocacy on individuals’ cognitive responses: evidence from survey experiments in Japan	8
Organizational experience and cost-cutting agreements in the Formula One industry: a dynamic capabilities approach	8
How did regular sports bettors behave during covid-19 lockdown? Evidence from Poland	8
The professionalization tension in women’s sport: the case of women’s basketball in Australia	8
A re-inquiry of the emotion spillover effect using psychophysiological approaches: how game outcome and process influence cognitive processing of TV commercial	8
Awards are career catalysts for young talents in association football	8
Sport management and COVID-19: trends and legacies	7
‘When we meet, we play football, it reminds me of home': emotions, institutional work, and sport-for-development and peace	7
A losing battle? Women’s sport pre- and post-COVID-19	7
Match officials and abuse: a systematic review	7
Exploring identity work of LGBT+ volunteers in sport through personas: the advocate, the community-minded and the sportsperson	7
Opening the black box of the sport event volunteer’s journey: from candidate to volunteer	7
Trained to be sexist: operationalizing institutional logics in the co-construction of gendered discourse in sport	7
Agency in institutionalized sport organizations: examining how institutions suppress agency	7
The creation of shared value in the major sport event ecosystem: understanding the role of sponsors and hosts	7
Branding governance in international recurring sports events: the World Rugby ‘Sevens’ Series	6
Exploring the effect of community institutional forces on corporate philanthropy in professional sport	6
The financial challenges of hosting sports events: a problem of insufficient separation between decision-making and decision-control	6
Athlete career transitions: a systematic review and future directions for sport management research	6
Towards an inductive model of customer experience in fitness clubs: a structural topic modeling approach	6
Relationship quality in sport: a systematic quantitative literature review	6
Salary determination in professional football: empirical evidence from goalkeepers	6
Beyond the host nation: an investigation of trickle-down effects in the ‘Hometowns’ of Canadian athletes who competed at the London 2012 Olympic Games	6
Reconceptualizing a model of demonstration effects: integrating rational, affective, and behavioral constructs	5
Industry hierarchy in team sport industries, team tactics and competitive advantage: the empty goal option in league handball	5
Decision-making in professional football: an empirical analysis of club members’ voting behaviour	5
Effect of toxicity and competitive psychological climate on team orientation and turnover intentions within sport employees	5
Taking stock of sport management research in the new millenia – research contributions, worthwhile knowledge, and the field’s raison d’être	5
Professor Chris Gratton: an obituary	5

Impacts of career commitment, gender, and job position on turnover intentions among athletic department employees: a moderated mediation model	5
A study of event brand image, destination image, event, and destination loyalty among international sport tourists	5
The impact of British sporting achievements on national pride among adults in England	4
Athlete activism and attendance behavior in the National Football League	4
Understanding resident support towards the 2030 FIFA World Cup: a co-hosting country’s perspective	4
Unlocking value: exploring digital transformation's influence on knowledge management of national football associations	4
Exploring the collaborative governance of Olympic stadium renovations: a multiple case study	4
Internationalisation strategy in sport: the case of Flamengo, the largest Brazilian football club	4
Olympic Games Reloaded: can the Olympic Agenda 2020 push residents’ support for the mega-event?	4
A three-dimensional model of innovation within Flemish non-profit sports organisations	4
Assessing key performance indicators of corporate social responsibility initiatives in sport	4
Partnerships in collegiate sport clubs: a social exchange perspective	4
Rethinking brand management within sport: advancing towards the integrative sport brand ecosystem (ISBE)	4
Integrating emotions into legitimacy work: an institutional work perspective on new sport emergence	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
Modelling public trust in elite sport institutions: a theoretical synthesis and empirical test	4
Social impact of events: advancing insights on social impact scales	4
The role of external partners in shaping the organizational capacity of collegiate sport clubs: a Delphi study	4
Understanding organisation public relations through Twitter communication for the European super league	4
A mediasport typology for transformative relationships: enlargement, enhancement, connection and engagement beyond COVID-19	3
No crowd, no roar, no home advantage: evidence from ice hockey	3
eSports: the need for a structured support system for players	3
Investigating top-down and bottom-up strategic alignment of event leveraging outcomes: the case of the 2021 UCI Road World Championships	3
The numbers game: quantifying good governance in sport	3
The social value of co-hosting: rethinking the management of sports events	3
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	3
An extended source attractiveness model: the advertising effectiveness of distinct athlete endorser attractiveness types and its contextual variation	3
The digital transformation of value co-creation: a scoping review towards an agenda for sport marketing research	3
Investigating the role of stakeholders in leveraging sustainability strategies in sports	3
Ukrainian refugees and the Swedish sports movement – new opportunities and challenges	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
The shift in sports viewing: scale development and validation for mediated sports consumption motivation	3
A bright spot for a small league: social media performance in a football league without a COVID-19 lockdown	3