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International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing

 

Special Issue on: “Managing Sport Businesses in a Complex Environment”

Guest Editors:
Dr. John Beech, Coventry Business School, UK and
Dr. Simon Chadwick, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

This special edition of IJSMM will explore a variety of topics which illustrate the range of challenges facing sport businesses that arise from the complexity of the business environment in which they operate.

While articles will tend to be from a strategic perspective, there are opportunities for articles which explore the consequences of such complexity from an operations, marketing, human resource or finance perspective, or from more specialised perspectives such as risk management, sports law or the volunteer/professional interface.

Contexts will include not only the more familiar areas of large professional sport such as major football clubs, F1 motor racing, horse racing and rugby union but may also cover sponsors, sport broadcasters and governing bodies, for example.

Subject Coverage
It is hoped that authors will provide a wide range of theoretical approaches, topics and investigations. Examples of issues that might be explored include, but are by no means confined to:

• Challenges and strategies for risk managers in sport
• Managing a sport business in an international context
• Reconciling the multiple financial considerations in a 21st century sport business
• Managing opportunities created by proliferation and convergence in the televised sports market
• Commercialisation and fair play: can profit and sport co-exist?
• Ethical and governance challenges for sport managers
• A view from the frontline: a practitioner view of the challenges facing sport managers

Notes for Prospective Authors

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Papers Submission section under Author Guidelines

To submit a paper, please go to Submission of Papers

This is our preferred route for submitting papers; please use it if at all possible. However, if you experience any problems submitting papers in this way, an alternative route is suggested below

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere

Important Dates

Deadline for submissions: 1 September 2005

Latest date for review decisions: 15 October 2005

Deadline for return of changes: 1 December 2005

Final submission of edited papers: 15 January 2006