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Competition : the heart and soul of sport management

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posted on 2012-01-01, 00:00 authored by David ShilburyDavid Shilbury
Understanding competition is central to the task of strategy formulation and implementation and it is the link between competition and strategy that was explored in the 2011 Dr. Earle F. Zeigler Lecture. It was argued that strategy, given its centrality to organizational phenomena, and strategy research in particular, provides rich and diverse competitive contexts with the potential to reveal some of the unique properties of sport management. To ascertain the prevalence of sport-related strategy research, three sport management journals were subject to content analysis to identify published manuscripts related to strategy. Before presenting the results, the Lecture considered competition on and off the field, the origins of competitive behavior in sport management and a brief review of the major research themes in the generic strategic management literature. Results revealed that 20 (2.5%) of the 805 manuscripts published in the three journals were strategy focused. Research themes and contexts were presented as well as a bibliometric analysis of the reference lists of the 20 identified strategy manuscripts. This analysis highlighted the journals that are influencing published sport management strategy-related research. It was concluded that strategy research specific to sport management has been sparse to date, yet the role of strategy formulation is central to the role of management and should also be central to sport management scholarship.

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Journal

Journal of sport management

Volume

26

Issue

1

Pagination

1 - 10

Publisher

Human Kinetics

Location

Champaign, Ill.

ISSN

0888-4773

eISSN

1543-270X

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2012, Human Kinetics, Inc.

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