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Water is a natural resource with which the Global North is familiar with, but unfamiliar - conscious of its importance, but unconscious of its complexity. People with access to clean water know that they receive water in their hands or...
Masculine Hegemony in March Madness?: A Textual Analysis of the Gendered Language Used by Newspaper and Online Sportswriters Covering NCAA Women's and Men's Basketball Tournaments
The primary goal of this textual analysis was to examine narratives and descriptors sportswriters used when covering the NCAA Division I women's and men's basketball tournaments (March Madness). Drawing principally from a masculine...
The purpose of this study was to identify current collective bargaining issues facing the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) and, further, to examine these same issues in Major League Baseball (MLB). In order to help the KBO plan for the...
Spectator attendance is a popular topic in the sport management literature. However, the primary focus of work done in this area has been examining professional sports, with collegiate sports lagging far behind. The impetus behind the...
The purpose of this study was to identify college choice factors that are most important in track-and-field student athletes' choice to attend a HBCU. This study employed a three-fold approach: a) to expand research on track-and-field...
Over the past 25 years, the relationship between professional sports leagues and broadcast networks has employed a traditional rights fee model. This model involves a guaranteed upfront payment from the networks to the leagues. Over the...
For decades, sport consumer behavior scholars have been interested in understanding individuals' psychological connection to sport teams. Through their efforts--including the development of concepts such as team identification--scholars...
Consumer behavior researchers have found that satisfaction is a key predictor of repeat purchase, positive word-of-mouth, loyalty, and ultimately profitability of a firm. While researchers have worked to better understand the...
Sport management researchers have not studied sport markets, despite their importance to the discipline. In this dissertation, I report on two ethnographic case studies where I worked with new sport organizations to design and conduct...
The purpose of this study was to advance our understanding of the influence of subculture on building awareness of a product and ultimately a stronger connection to a product, in particular sports teams. The research questions examined...
Daily fantasy sports games have recently emerged as one of the fastest growing segments associated with the sports industry. While traditional fantasy sports have long been associated with sport consumption, daily fantasy sports allow...
Sport organizations rely on volunteers to accomplish their missions. Volunteers are a finite resource whose supply may not keep up with the ever increasing demand (Bussell & Forbes, 2002; Cuskelly, 2004). The number of organizations...
Price fairness is defined as the psychological judgment of the price as reasonable, just, and acceptable (Bolton, Warlop, & Alba, 2003; Maxwell, 2002; Xia, Monroe, & Cox, 2004). Although it has been investigated in various service...
The dawning of the "Communication Age" (Lull, 2002), which is the efficient transmission of digitized bits and bytes and also the significance of the entire communication process for 'real people, ' stimulates two questions: is modern...
The purpose of the current study was to report the current risk management practices of NCAA Division I-A football stadiums in relation to Ammon's (2001) D.I.M. Process. Along with this exploratory and descriptive investigation of...
Sports have become more than just games played for entertainment. What was once a distraction to watch and enjoy has become not only an inspiration and motivation for individuals but a representation of countries and different groups of...
Physical education teachers have been encouraged to do their part to increase students' moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) while participating in physical education classes to help fight the obesity epidemic. Research...
The purpose of this study was to examine Senior Woman Administrators (SWAs) perception of organizational commitment. Three types of organizational commitment were surveyed: affective, normative, and continuance commitment. This study was...
The purposes of this study were: (1) to identify the delineation of organizational centrality among NCAA Division I athletic departments, to determine the extent to which centrality as defined by Grusky Theory of Formal Structure (1963)...
When attending or watching sporting events, amateur or professional, people are exposed to a variety of advertising. People form attitudes toward advertising that influence their decision making processes to purchase a particular...
The present study examined the influences of instructions that directed the learner's attention to either an internal focus or external focus on the performance and learning of a dynamic balance task. The instructions given were related...
The purpose of the research was to elaborate on the relationship between sport national team identity and national identity. The relationship has been documented anecdotally and in other areas of study, most notably in sport sociology ...
Given the impressive growth and soaring popularity of watching live sporting events, sport organizations continue to search for ways to maintain or even improve this trend. Indeed, one significant and increasingly advocated approach-...
A revolution started in women's athletics with the passage of Title IX of the Education Amendment Act of 1972. The Act required all educational programs and activities to be treated on an equal basis. Now women's athletic programs had to...
Creating and developing an international sport federation is an early step before govern-ing a sport on a global scale. Then the organization must seek International Olympic Committee recognition to become the legitimate international...
The purpose of the study was to investigate the current status of Aquatic Physical Activity (APA) in K-12 public school physical education programs in the state of Florida. If steps are ever to be taken to effectively promote APA in...
The Heisman Memorial Trophy is awarded each year to the best college football player in the United States. In 2003, voters chose Jason White from the University of Oklahoma as the winner. The eligible voters consisted of 870 members of...
The Influence of Perceived Managerial Work Values and Perceived Constructive Organizational Culture on Job Satisfaction of Employees in Sport Organizations
The main purpose of this study is to examine how employee job satisfaction is influenced by perceived managerial work values and perceived constructive organizational culture. Specifically, the current study model provides a conceptual...
Increasing pressure from the public has raised expectations that corporations will be better citizens of their communities and society as a whole (Bennet, 2002; Carroll, 1999b; Epstein, 1989; Van Marrewijk, 2003; Wood, 1991). As a result...
Florida State University was thrust into the spotlight after quarterback Adrian McPherson was dismissed from the football team following allegations that included sports gambling. In the era of big-time college athletics, it is vital for...
According to Bhat and Reedy (1998), consumers' essential needs can be categorized as either symbolic or functional. The self-concept/product-image congruity model is based on the premise that consumers try to satisfy symbolic needs as...
The purpose of this research was to investigate how a selection of task variables and positive mood state would impact an overall latent interpretation of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Additionally, this study was designed...
The motives of volunteers provide an important key to understanding an individual's decision to become involved in volunteering (Kim, Zhang, & Connaughton, 2010). One challenge sporting event managers face is that community sport...
Dynamic pricing has become one of the most popular pricing strategies of developed online shopping environments and provides efficiency for both providers and consumers in the service industry. Spectator sport providers have recently...
While much of the sponsorship literature has focused on analyzing the effects of sponsorship on consumers (e.g., Gwinner, 1997; Madrigal, 2001; Rajaretnam, 1994), research on the internal effects of sponsorship on a sponsor company's...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of congruence of leadership behaviors on motivation, commitment, and satisfaction of college tennis players. Respondents (n = 245) included collegiate tennis players from all NCAA...
The dissertation had two major research purposes. The first purpose was to explore what values may be associated with spectator sports. This purpose was completed by using qualitative inquiry and conducting a review of literature. The...
The purpose of this study was to survey female basketball student-athletes, participating in Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) member institutions, in order to determine their academic, collegiate athletic, and career athletic motivation...
The role of customers in service production has been increased in our society. Sport participants also play a significant role in service delivery (Chelladurai & Chang, 2000; Ko & Pastore, 2005). Groth (2005) introduced customer...
Factors associated with attendance at sporting events has been well documented in recent literature. Numerous studies have been conducted in college and professional sports, yet little work to date has examined factors associated with...
Professional wrestling has been a special interest component of human culture since the early 20th century. A mesh between sport and theatre, it presents a unique combination of production elements to consumers. French theorist Roland...
In this thesis, I will examine how activist athletes, particularly Naomi Osaka, construct their self-identity within social media. In Osaka's case, I will explore how Naomi Osaka's identities as black and a woman interact with her...
The purpose of this study was to examine the leadership behaviors of coaches within the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities using the Revised Leadership Scale for Sport. A secondary purpose was to gain greater insight into...
The amateurism principle in intercollegiate athletics has become an increasingly popular topic in discussions of sport and equality since its inception in the mid-twentieth century. As the profitability of the collegiate-sport product...
Over the last several decades, sport management and sport marketing scholars have studied individuals' psychological connection to sport objects. One of the prominent theories emerging from these efforts is the Psychological Continuum...
In this study, I developed a revised measurement scale to assess the quality of sports facilities. Because sporting events meet psychological, social, and experiential needs of sports consumers, sports teams provide various ancillary...
Billions of people have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic since we initially became aware of its existence in December 2019. Studies have been done since the emergence of the COVID-19 virus to assess its effect on people (e.g., Duan...
Tiller and Cross observed that legal researchers “have extensively dealt with doctrine as a normative matter but have given little attention to the manner in which it actually functions, ” while social scientists “who have done important...
In this paper I explore the possibilities of community through sport in the context of soccer in Kansas City. Drawing from the conceptualizations of community in Esposito’s oeuvre and utilizing the ontological framework of Deleuze and...
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