International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing
- Editor in Chief
- Dr. M.A. Dorgham
- ISSN online
- 1740-2808
- ISSN print
- 1475-8962
- 6 issues per year
- CiteScore 1.0 (2023)
IJSMM, a fully-refereed international journal, aims to present current practice and research in the area of sport management and marketing. IJSMM is a unique publication useful for everyone interested in the new developments in sport management and marketing theory and practices.
Topics covered include
- Sports technology monitoring, audit and evaluation
- Innovation and technology
- Emerging technologies
- International sports technology management
- Sporting organisation management
- Total quality management
- Quality management systems
- Strategic management
- Sports marketing
- Sports financial management, economics
- Sports facilities planning, evaluation, management
- Sports event management
- Human resource development and management
- Entrepreneurs in the sporting sector
- Management in professional sports clubs
Objectives
IJSMM is a multidisciplinary journal which aims to provide a unique focus on a wide range of sport management and sport technology topics. It covers advances in theory, new concepts, methods and applications and case studies. Each issue disseminates quality sport-related research relevant to sport technology and sport management, examining both hard and soft perspectives in managing sporting organisations in the public and private sectors.
Readership
Professionals, academics, researchers, sports managers, marketers and economists, policy makers, and government officials.
Contents
IJSMM welcomes both academic and practical contributions. It publishes original papers, theory-based empirical papers, review papers, case studies, conference reports, book reviews and relevant reports and news, as well as a calendar of international events.
IJSMM is indexed in:
- Scopus (Elsevier)
- Academic OneFile (Gale)
- CAB Abstracts - Agriculture and International Development Indexes
- CAB Abstracts - Environmental Sciences Indexes
- CAB Abstracts - Human Sciences Abstracts
- CAB Abstracts - Leisure and Tourism Abstracts
- cnpLINKer (CNPIEC)
- Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale)
- OneFile Business (Gale)
- General OneFile (Gale)
- CAB Global Health
- Google Scholar
- Info Trac (Gale)
- J-Gate
- Pirabase (Smithers Pira)
- ProQuest Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace
- SPORTDiscus (EBSCO)
IJSMM is listed in:
- Australian Business Deans Council Journal Rankings List
- Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities
Editor in Chief
- Dorgham, M.A., International Centre for Technology and Management, UK
(editorialinderscience.com)
Associate Editor
- Andrew, Damon P. S., Florida State University , USA
Editorial Board Members
- Andreff, Wladimir, Université Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France
- Beech, John, Coventry University, UK
- Breuer, Christoph, German Sport University Cologne, Germany
- Byers, Terri, University of New Brunswick, Canada
- Chadwick, Simon, Emlyon Business School, France
- Chen, Peter, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan, Province of China
- Coalter, Fred, University of Stirling, UK
- Correia, Abel, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Cousens, Laura, Brock University, Canada
- Davakos, Harry, The Citadel, USA
- Desbordes, Michel, Emlyon Business School and University of Paris-Sud, France
- Dickson, Geoff, La Trobe University, Australia
- Douvis, John, University of Athens, Greece
- Ferrand, Alain, Université de Poitiers, France
- Forrest, David, University of Salford, UK
- Frick, Bernd, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany
- Fu, Frank H., Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR, China
- Funk, Daniel, Temple University, USA
- Greenwell, Chris, University of Louisville, USA
- Grohs, Reinhard, Privatuniversität Schloss Seeburg, Austria
- Howell, Jeremy, University of San Francisco, USA
- Humphreys, Brad R., West Virginia University, USA
- Jackson, Steven J., University of Otago, New Zealand
- Kitchin, Paul, University of Ulster, UK
- Kriemadis, Thanos, University of Peloponnese, Greece
- Ladany, Shaul P., Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
- Mahony, Daniel F., Winthrop University, USA
- Mason, Daniel, University of Alberta, Canada
- Neves, João Carvalho das, ISEG, Portugal
- Pawlowski, Tim, University of Tübingen, Germany
- Pedersen, Paul M., Indiana University, USA
- Pons, Frank, Kedge Business School and Laval University, Canada
- Rascher, Daniel A., University of San Francisco, USA
- Rodríguez Guerrero, Plácido, Oviedo University, Spain
- Sam, Mike, University of Otago, New Zealand
- Sarkar, Soumodip, Universidade de Évora, Portugal
- Scherer, Jay, University of Alberta, Canada
- Tapp, Alan, University of West of England, UK
- Taylor, Tracy, RMIT College of Business and Law, Australia
- Todd, Samuel, University of South Carolina, USA
- Torgler, Benno, Yale University, USA
- Van Hoecke, Jo, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
- Won, Doyeon, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA
- Zhang, James J., University of Georgia, USA
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- Submitted articles should not have been previously published or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
- Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written (more details available here) and the author has cleared any necessary permissions with the copyright owner if it has been previously copyrighted.
- Briefs and research notes are not published in this journal.
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Journal news
Celebrity fatigue – an endorsement own-goal
1 July, 2024
Research in the International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing has investigated the effect of celebrity endorsements on consumer attitudes and purchasing decisions. The work focused on particular well-known brands and the influence of fan identification. Eduardo Fons, Maria-José Miquel-Romero, Manuel Cuadrado-García, and Juan D. Montoro-Pons of the University of Valencia in Valencia, Spain, surveyed 324 Spanish football league fans. They asked questions to find out about brand recall, brand attitudes, and purchase intentions related to celebrity-endorsed sports brands. The team's findings challenge the received wisdom that prominent brands significantly benefit from celebrity endorsements. Indeed, the implication is that the glamour has faded somewhat and that fans in this niche are perhaps experiencing celebrity fatigue when it comes to these kinds of so-called influencers [...]
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