Sport, Business and Management: Volume 10 Issue 5

Guest editorial

Anna Gerke, Birnir Egilsson

Predicting soccer consumption: do eSports matter? Empirical insights from a machine learning approach

Emanuele Lettieri, Carlotta Orsenigo

This paper aims to shed novel light to further the ongoing debate about the relationship between traditional sports and eSports by gathering empirical evidence on the role that…

Incentivizing and re-engaging lapsed health club members

Teresa Hurley, Corinne Faure, Seamus Kelly

This quantitative research paper examined factors influencing re-engagement intentions and re-engagement behavior of lapsed health club members and identified which sales…

Management quality of professional football clubs: the Football Management (FoMa) Q-Score 2018

Henning Zülch, Moritz Palme, Sébastien Pierre Jost

This study derives a new framework that comprehensively assesses management quality along four dimensions, namely Sporting Success; Financial Performance; Fan Welfare…

Measuring competitive intensity in sports leagues

Fabio Wagner, Holger Preuss, Thomas Könecke

For managers of sports leagues, it is crucial to produce an attractive competition. For that to happen, it is vital to consider that leagues frequently have more sub-competitions…