{"title":"Fantasy cricket: gambling or game of skill","authors":"Manish Kumar","doi":"10.1080/23750472.2024.2384489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2024.2384489","url":null,"abstract":"The fantasy gaming industry in India is expected to reach a market size of around 20 billion USD by 2025, with fantasy cricket contributing to around 85% of the revenue. Only for this year’s IPL, t...","PeriodicalId":45947,"journal":{"name":"Managing Sport and Leisure","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141969918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Football club ownership and sporting ambition","authors":"Richard Evans, Geoff Walters, Sean Hamil","doi":"10.1080/23750472.2024.2380712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2024.2380712","url":null,"abstract":"This article identifies whether domestic and foreign owners of professional football clubs in England have a different propensity to gamble on sporting success by spending excessively on wages.Data...","PeriodicalId":45947,"journal":{"name":"Managing Sport and Leisure","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141782850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The emergent community of esports fans in Japan: an analysis of motivations and preferences","authors":"Y. Meng-Lewis, Donna Wong, Chang Liu","doi":"10.1080/23750472.2024.2373149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2024.2373149","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45947,"journal":{"name":"Managing Sport and Leisure","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141664808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Natalie Windle, Amy E. Peden, Blake Angell, Rona Macniven
{"title":"Parent/carer experiences and challenges in redeeming the First Lap swimming lesson voucher in New South Wales, Australia","authors":"Natalie Windle, Amy E. Peden, Blake Angell, Rona Macniven","doi":"10.1080/23750472.2024.2373141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2024.2373141","url":null,"abstract":"Swimming is a popular, enjoyable, and important form of physical activity. Swimming skills play a vital role in water safety and drowning prevention, particularly among young children. The First La...","PeriodicalId":45947,"journal":{"name":"Managing Sport and Leisure","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141613357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Sánchez, Ángel Barajas, Patricio Sánchez-Fernández
{"title":"Are football clubs as pieces of art or as regular corporations? An empirical evidence of market valuation of football clubs in the big 5 leagues","authors":"L. Sánchez, Ángel Barajas, Patricio Sánchez-Fernández","doi":"10.1080/23750472.2022.2081251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2022.2081251","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Purpose: The aim of this paper is to determine whether football clubs are valued according to financial parameters, as in other profit-seeking investments, or depending on the subjective preference of the buyers, in situations where buyers seek emotional rewards or a status symbol. Design: This work analyses a unique data set of the prices of actual transactions of shares from clubs in the big European leagues from 2001 until 2019. A theoretical model is presented introducing financial, sporting, and localisation variables to study their influence in market value. Findings: We have found that the valuation of football clubs in acquisitions is influenced by financial parameters, as in other profit-seeking investments, and does not depend on the subjective preference of the buyers. Practical implications: Our findings show the end of the alignment of interests between new football owners and fans or current organisers of competitions, due to the preferences of the new investor profit-seekers of an American model of sport. Research contributions: The ownership of football clubs in the big leagues has changed dramatically in the last years. For the first time, to the best of our knowledge, the present paper demonstrates the opportunity of analysing the valuations of the football industry with actual data from the transactions.","PeriodicalId":45947,"journal":{"name":"Managing Sport and Leisure","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141682682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thadeu Gasparetto, Marina Orlova, Anton Vernikovskiy
{"title":"Same, same but different: analyzing uncertainty of outcome in Formula One races","authors":"Thadeu Gasparetto, Marina Orlova, Anton Vernikovskiy","doi":"10.1080/23750472.2022.2085619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2022.2085619","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Purpose: Formula One (F1) is considered as one of the most popular sports worldwide. However, no previous research inspected its determinants of attendance. This paper aims to cover this gap. Methodology: The dataset includes races from 2015 to 2019. The impact of uncertainty of outcome (UO) is firstly addressed by coefficient of variation, Herfindahl–Hirschman and Gini. Later, a specific metric for F1 is presented. The econometric approach consists in Ordinary Least Squares regressions with season and circuit fixed effects. Findings: The results evidence that an increase in price slightly reduces the demand as well as a significant inverted U-shaped relationship between attendance and UO. Moreover, the findings suggest that the latest performance of a local driver has a significant positive effect in the attendance level. Practical implications: The empirical results provided may aid F1 races’ organizers maximizing live attendances. Research contribution: The findings offered here suggest the use of specific UO indexes for different sport disciplines in further research.","PeriodicalId":45947,"journal":{"name":"Managing Sport and Leisure","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141683357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An examination of competitive rule evolution in the National Football League","authors":"Adam Copeland, Kathryn L. Heinze","doi":"10.1080/23750472.2024.2369323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2024.2369323","url":null,"abstract":"Competitive rules, which have implications for player safety, fairness, and entertainment, change over time, yet institutional accounts offer only a high-level view of rule change. This study cente...","PeriodicalId":45947,"journal":{"name":"Managing Sport and Leisure","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141948782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How is men’s mental health affected within male professional football?","authors":"Gary Souter, Laura Serrant, Alina Haines-Delmont","doi":"10.1080/23750472.2024.2369320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2024.2369320","url":null,"abstract":"How is men’s mental health affected within male professional football?Within this qualitative study, eighteen current first-team professional footballers were interviewed from across the English Fo...","PeriodicalId":45947,"journal":{"name":"Managing Sport and Leisure","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141613237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adrian France, Geoff Dickson, Lachlan McDonald-Kerr, Esin Ozdil
{"title":"A scoping review of sport organisations’ accountability","authors":"Adrian France, Geoff Dickson, Lachlan McDonald-Kerr, Esin Ozdil","doi":"10.1080/23750472.2024.2365208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2024.2365208","url":null,"abstract":"Stakeholders of sporting organisations have expressed a myriad of concerns regarding sport organisations’ accountability. Despite growth in the literature, a review and examination of this scholars...","PeriodicalId":45947,"journal":{"name":"Managing Sport and Leisure","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bad practice versus good intentions: the interdependencies of perceived governance practice and the success of corporate social responsibility activities","authors":"Daryousch Argomand, Stefan Walzel","doi":"10.1080/23750472.2024.2366988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2024.2366988","url":null,"abstract":"The dual, complementary relationship between organisational governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been widely neglected in both academia and the field. This research aims to empi...","PeriodicalId":45947,"journal":{"name":"Managing Sport and Leisure","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}