Sport, Business and Management: Volume 11 Issue 3

Gambling with leadership succession in Brazilian football: head coach turnovers and team performance

Matheus Galdino, Pamela Wicker, Brian P. Soebbing

Although leadership succession is a popular area of study across different professional sports leagues, existing research has largely ignored South America despite Brazilian…

Coaches' views on how to develop shared leadership

Gerrit van Dalfsen, Jo Van Hoecke, Hans Westerbeek, Veerle De Bosscher

The purpose of this paper is to investigate coaches' views on developing leadership and shared leadership capacity in particular in competitive youth football.

Understanding sport event ticket-type preference in a forced e-ticket environment

Nels Popp, Jason M. Simmons, Danielle Kushner Smith, Rachel Tasker

Many sport venues utilize digital ticketing, in some instances exclusively. Forced technology adoption among ticket buyers in nonsport contexts, (i.e. airline passengers) has been…

The ebbs and flows of green waves: environmental sustainability in Grand Slam tennis

Sylvia Trendafilova, Jamee Pelcher, Jeffrey Graham, Vassilios Ziakas

The purpose of this study was to examine the structure and scope of environmental sustainability efforts of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments as communicated via their…

Host city transportation issues: conceptualization, scale development, and validation

Tiago Ribeiro, Victor Manoel Cunha de Almeida

Planning and managing the transportation services for Olympic host cities is a complex task. This paper contributes to the event management literature by presenting empirical…

Sports celebrity personality and purchase intention: the role of endorser-brand congruence, brand credibility and brand image transfer

Jaskirat Singh Rai, Anish Yousaf, Maher N. Itani, Amanpreet Singh

This study aims to examine the influence of five sports celebrity personality (SCP) attributes – attractiveness, expertise level, credibility, trustworthiness and character – on…