The EURAM “Managing Sport” SIG aims to:

  • Promote research and education in the fields of sports business and management in Europe, with special emphasis on international comparisons;
  • Foster an understanding of the role of professionalisation and commercialisation of sport on European economy and society;
  • Encourage the exchange of research results, practical experience, and ideas by organising the annual EURAM track, facilitating symposia, workshops and other academic meetings for and on behalf of its members and affiliated institutions;
  • Support the development of international research collaborations with other Academies of Management and Sports Management Associations;
  • Disseminate research results through a variety of channels.

 

SIG OFFICERS (2019-2021):

Anna Gerke (Audencia Business School, France) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. SIG Chair

Birnir Egilsson (Molde University College, Norway) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Programme Chair

Konstantinos Koronios (University of Peloponese) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Communications Officer

 


GT08_00 Managing Sport General Track

The EURAM 2020 general track on ‘Managing Sport’ seeks to gain a deeper understanding of the unique development in sports, its logic of co-creation of value and the advancement of the industry towards internationalisation, professionalisation, and commercialisation. The track aims to cover all management functions and welcomes papers that address a range of topics related to sporting issues and particularities of the management of sport organisations, including human resources and voluntarism, sport facility management, professional sport clubs, sport finance and sport economics, sport sponsorship and branding, fans and spectators in sport, equality and diversity in sport.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,
Goal 4: Quality education,
Goal 5: Gender equality,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,
Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions

Birnir Egilsson , Molde University College, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

MANAGING SPORT SIG STANDING TRACKS 

ST07_02/ST08_01 - Managing Sport Events and Participation (co-sponsored by  International Management SIG-07 and Managing Sport SIG-08)

Events are universal and occupy a special place in all societies and cultures around the globe. The number of events is still on the increase, leading to competition about resources and attendants. Event bankruptcies occur, and hybrid crossovers of event design are being developed to make the events sustainable, unique and to attract new participants. Increasingly, hosting and managing a successful large or small event represent a number of unique management challenges especially when the international context is considered, for example issues of event bidding, corruption, sponsorship, broadcasting, internet streaming, participation (athletes, spectators), or social, financial and environmental impact.
 
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 4: Quality education,
Goal 5: Gender equality,
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation,
Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy,
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities,
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production,
Goal 13: Climate action,
Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
 
 
Harald Dolles , Molde University College, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
 

ST02_04/ST08_02 - Sport Governance (co-sponsored by Corporate Governance SIG-02 and Managing Sport SIG-08)

For the last two decades, sport governance has developed into a considerable field of research, and has raised interest of many researchers and practitioners worldwide, advancing knowledge and best practices in sport organisations. Sport Governance is understood as the exercise of power within sport organisations or (inter)national sport systems which provides the structure through which these organisations or systems are controlled, directed and regulated. We invite empirical and theoretical contributions that develop a critical analysis of sport governance and/or practical application of good governance principles using a range of different theoretical and methodological approaches.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 5: Gender equality,
Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions,
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals

Mathieu Winand , LUNEX University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

MANAGING SPORT SIG TRACKS 

T06_15 / T08_03 - New Frontiers in Managing Sport: the Rise of Digital Transformation (co-sponsored by Innovation SIG-06 and Managing Sport SIG-08)

 

How value is generated in the Sport Industry has dramatically changed in the last years. Spectators/viewers want to play an active role as value co-creators. Wearables and the internet of things (IOTs) allow measuring athlete and amateur performance. Tradiums are combining sport, trade and entertainment. Virtual and augmented reality are delivering immersive services. Big data are fuelling artificial intelligence. eSports are attracting new fans within the youngest generations. This track aims at attracting novel contributions from scholars of sport management, innovation management, sports marketing and information science to develop “sports innovation” as a novel stream of research.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people, 
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Emanuele Lettieri , Politecnico di Milano, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

T01_12 / T08_04 - Sport and Sustainability (co-sponsored by Business for Society SIG-01 and Managing Sport SIG-08)

The relation between sport and sustainability is a topic that has raised in the recent years a lot of interest in academics as well as practitioners. Several sport organisations are committed to the management of sustainability issues and many sport events have been arranged adopting sustainability practices. However, in the academic literature, very few studies have investigated the relation between sustainability and sport. 
Deepening the relationships between sport and sustainability under the social, economic or environmental point of view is thus the main aim of this track proposal.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 1: No poverty, 
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people, 
Goal 4: Quality education, 
Goal 5: Gender equality, 
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth, 
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, 
Goal 10: Reducing inequalities, 
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities, 
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production, 
Goal 13: Climate action, 
Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions, 
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals

Tiberio Daddi, Institute of Management, S.Anna School of Advanced Studies, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

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