Item parcels in structural equation modelling: an applied study in sport management

The purpose of this study is to describe the influences of different parceling strategies on goodness-of-fit measures and parameter estimates of a sport management structural model with latent variables. The use of small sample sizes to test models with a large number of parameters can produce poor fit indexes, mainly because many indicators tend to increase the chances of cross-loadings, which in turn reduce the common variance. Considering that in social and behavioral sciences is not quite easy to have access to large-enough samples, item parceling has been proposed as a remedy for this kind of situation. Using a theoretically-supported sport management model and real data, we compared total disaggregation model (items as indicators) with partial disaggregation models (parcels as indicators) and total aggregation model (summated score as the indicator). Results showed that different strategies of parceling could lead to very distinct conclusions. Implications for future studies using parceling in the field of sport management are discussed

An overview of sport in modern India

India is a land of immense cultural, religious and linguistic diversity. India has a strong tradition of sport participation, with modern sport such as cricket and tennis being attributed to the British colonisation era, and indigenous sport such as kabaddi and kho-kho making a comeback in the mainstream. The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sport and the Sports Authority of India govern sport in India. These agencies have introduced programmes to attract the nation’s youth to participate in sporting events by providing them with financial and logistic support. With a growing middle class, the increase in disposable income and a new perspective towards being physically active, India’s participation in sport and recreation activities is on the rise. The advent of professional sporting leagues and the inspirational performances of Indian athletes ensure the country’s sporting tradition will continue to grow and flourish

Scholarly Thrusts in the Journal of Sport Management: Citation Analysis

To provide objective evidence for continued discussion of the body of knowledge in the field of sport management, this study reconstructed the knowledge structure through bibliometric analysis of the Journal of Sport Management (JSM) articles between 1997 and 2012. To be specific, this study employed citation analyses of articles published in the JSM to disclose the central themes, concepts, and methodologies. The results revealed that while the quantitative methods were prevalent during the entire period, structural equation modeling and qualitative methods emerged as new investigative methods in the later period (2004-2012). Content wise, articles in sport marketing were more cited in the later period than those relating to organizational studies, reflection studies, sport sociology, and sport finance/economics. Furthermore, the cited marketing related articles were more focused on consumer behavior in the context of entertainment sport (intercollegiate sport and/or professional sports)

“Sport is Double-Edged”: A Delphi Study of Spectator Sport and Population Health

The periodic examination of research agendas in sport management is necessary for the field’s advancement. In this mixed-method Delphi study, 15 leading sport management scholars forecast how the field can have a more influential voice in understanding the relationship between spectator sport and population health. Panelists agreed on the importance to not oversell or oversimplify the role of spectator sport; to improve interdisciplinary collaboration, theorization, and research design; to recognize opportunities to advance mental and social well-being; to better relate to stakeholders; and to identify distinctive health effects of spectator sport. A lack of consensus existed about the relationship between spectator sport and environmental well-being and prospects for leveraging spectator sport for participant sport. Drawing from these findings, the authors suggest that future research consider moving beyond simply measuring the effects of spectator sport on population health and, instead, assess its health effects relative to multiple forms of leisure and entertainment

For ‘love’ and money: a sports club’s innovative response to multiple logics

© 2011 Human Kinetics, Inc.This article builds on prior theory and research on institutional logics and shows how a multisports club changes during its organizational life from an all amateur or voluntary logic to embody multiple logics simultaneously with different subunits being aligned with different organizational fields. The emergence of the professional logic for elite soccer in the presence of a volunteer logic caused a change in the structure of the club whereby all the units in the club became economically and legally autonomous. Soccer was divisionalized into soccer for everybody and soccer for the elite. The creation of a shareholding company and the use of an investment company which introduced the commercial logic were the next steps. This paper extends the literature by suggesting that different and opposing institutional logics such as the amateur, the professional, and commercial logics can coexist within a multisports club or, to put it another way, that the multisports club may belong to several organizational fields