Sport, Business and Management: Volume 13 Issue 3

“It's not just a job, it's a passion”: passions and motivations of sport entrepreneurs

Mathieu Winand, Euan Bell, Géraldine Zeimers

The present study aims to analyse sport entrepreneurs' passions and motivations to start a sport business. It answers calls from the literature to investigate sector-specific…

Attrition in entry-level ticket sales positions: a survival analysis

David Allen Pierce, Elizabeth Wanless, Nels Popp, Liz Sattler, Megan Shreffler

Sport ticket sales is often positioned as a “foot in the door” to the sport industry due to ample job opportunities, but anecdotal reports of high turnover raise questions of the…

The impact of perceived corporate social responsibility on participating in philanthropic road-running events: a moderated mediation model

Charles Chih

This research aims to develop a moderated mediation model to examine the relationships among participants' motivation, organizational identification and participation loyalty with…

Just one screen is not enough: Social TV role to Brazilian fans of Major League Soccer

Bruno Melo Moura, André Luiz Maranhão de Souza-Leão, Ewerton Pacheco da Silva, Guilherme Monteiro Alves dos Santos

Sports leagues, such as Major League Soccer (MLS), aim at expanding their audience at global level through alternative media other than television (TV). Brazil stands out among…

An analysis of precautionary savings practices of professional football players

Torsten Schlesinger, Michael Barth, Matti Bartsch, Werner Pitsch

The comparatively high salaries of professional players during their active athletic career should allow them to accumulate an adequate level of precautionary savings for a…

The clock is ticking: contexts, tensions and opportunities for addressing environmental justice in sport management

Chen Chen, Timothy Kellison

This paper aims to explore what environmental justice (EJ) can offer to sport management research and highlights the urgency for sport management scholars interested in…

Does time matter? How major league baseball secondary market sellers make ticket pricing decisions

Yohan Lee, Alan Morse, Moonsup Hyun, Stephen L. Shapiro, Joris Drayer

Pricing studies have largely focused on sellers' pricing strategies and price determinants. To expand earlier work on sellers' pricing decisions, this study considers time as a…