IJSM Contents & Abstracts Volume 25, (2024)
NUMBER 1, MARCH, 2024
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Sportsmanship Attitudes as a Moderator of the Relationship between Team Identification and Spectator Aggression Attitudes — Andrew Rudd, Sarah Stokowski — The National Collegiate Athletic Association has long been concerned with the practice of sportsmanship. However, frequent displays of spectator aggression at collegiate sport events demonstrates a grave contradiction. Fans level of team identification is considered a key influence on spectator aggression. Alternatively, sport marketers have found that team identification plays a vital role in fan consumption (e.g., tickets and merchandise). In the interest of reducing aggressive fan behavior without damp¬ening the sport managers’ need for highly identified college sports fans, we sought to assess how spectator sportsmanship attitudes might serve to moderate the relationship between team identification and spectator aggression attitudes such that the relationship between team identification and attitude towards aggression would be negligible for individuals scoring high in sportsmanship attitudes. Results showed that sportsmanship attitudes were not a statistically significant moderator of the relationship between team identification and attitudes towards aggression. However, there was a large negative relationship between attitudes towards aggression and spectator sportsmanship attitudes suggesting that fostering sportsmanship could help reduce aggressive fan behavior at college sporting events. Keywords: brand attributes, social media, crisis communication, nostalgia, sport organizations (1-23)
An Examination of Decision-Making Factors in the College Sport Addition Process: A Case of Esports Programs — Sloane Milstein, Youngiae Kim — This study aims to examine decision-making factors influencing the addition of esports to individual institutions and explore potential disparities across different in¬stitutional contexts. Examining data from 30 US colleges considering or implementing esports from 2018 to 2022, this study determined factors considered significant by athletic administrators and comparing these factors across diverse institutional contexts classified by the Carnegie Foundation school size categories. The findings showed key considerations such as sport popularity, competitiveness, recruiting, scholarships, fa¬cilities, gender equity, university viability, skill development, and student engage¬ment. The findings identified potential variations across different institutional contexts. Large institutions prioritize competitiveness, sport popularity, and culture/diversity; medium-sized schools focus on sport popularity and student engagement; while small and very small schools prioritize sport popularity and logistics/space availability. This study extends the knowledge base on the decision-making process in college sport contexts, shedding light on the factors influencing the adoption of esports in athletic programs. Keywords: Esports, College Sport Addition Process, Decision-making Factors (24-49)
Crime in the Nominal City: An Examination of the Relationship between Criminal Incidents and Professional Sport Venues in Dallas, Texas — Gidon Jakar, Kiernan Gordon — This study examines local crime during competitions played by the four, major, professional, sport teams in those teams’ nominal city: Dallas, Texas. Negative binomial regression analyses focus on count data for the entire city on a daily and hourly basis (n=48,824) between January 2015 and December 2019. Results indicate an apparent de¬crease in the number of incidents in Dallas when the Dallas Cowboys (NFL) play, whether home or away. In practice, this study suggests that the NFL generally, and the Cowboys specifically, may have an opportunity to engage a captive audience with messaging that promotes prosocial behaviors and denounces crime. Keywords: crime, sport events externalities (50-72)
Decision Making in Non-Profit Sport Organization Boards: Exploring the Role of Internal Board-Level Factors — Erik L. Lachance, Milena M. Parent — This study explored the role of internal board-level factors in non-profit sport organ¬ization (NPSO) boards’ decision making. Featuring six Canadian NPSO boards as cases, data were gathered from 36 observations of board meetings, 18 semi-structured interviews (Chief Executive Officers [CEO], Chairs, and individual board members), and over 900 documents, then thematically analyzed. Results identified five internal board-level factors important for NPSO board decision making: meeting practices, board size, Chair-CEO relationship, Chair collective leadership, and board competen-cies. These internal factors’ role varied depending on the decision-making constructs, namely duration, flow, interaction, and scrutiny. Results suggest NPSO boards should recruit individuals with different competencies as these represented an important internal information source. NPSO boards should be cautious when implementing virtual meetings for their decision making because it can inhibit the involvement of individual members (i.e., interaction). Theoretically, results suggest sport governance researchers should consider a multi-perspective approach when examining internal board-level factors. — Keywords: decisions, decision-making process, board of directors, not-for-profit organizations, qualitative, case study (73-99)
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