Sport, Business and Management: Volume 12 Issue 3

Disaster relief efforts of Houston sport organizations

Bryan Finch

The purpose of this paper is to examine the community recovery efforts undertaken by Houston, Texas, sport organizations following Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

Does the quality of a youth academy impact a football player's market value?

Matteo Balliauw, Jasper Bosmans, David Pauwels

Football clubs invest in the implementation of scientific insights that improve the quality of youth academies. In the long run, clubs expect their youth academy investments to…

An introduction to the challenges of distributive equity in the English Premier League

Rory Bishop, Aaron C.T. Smith, Daniel Read

This article provides a plain language commentary on the distributive equity structure of the English Premier League (EPL) with the aim of introducing sport business practitioners…

Does sport media raise her name? Examining intersectional representation in media narratives

Risa F. Isard, E. Nicole Melton

The purpose of this research was to examine the role of intersectionality (multiple marginalized identities) in narratives used within online media coverage of women's sports. The…

Measuring robustness: sustainable success factors affecting professional football clubs

Jacqueline Marie Cruz, Johannes Philipp Schregel, Henning Zülch

Many factors influence success at a professional football club, as each club has an exclusive definition and interpretation of success. Using the Football Management Q-Score as a…

The effectiveness of UEFA Financial Fair Play: evidence from England and France, 2008–2018

Aurélien Francois, Nadine Dermit-Richard, Daniel Plumley, Rob Wilson, Natacha Heutte

This paper analyses the effectiveness of UEFA's Financial Fair Play (FFP) under the break-even requirement.