Research Methods for Sport Management

Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, Research Methods for Sport Management provides a complete introduction to qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods for sport management students and practitioners.

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James Skinner is the Dean of Newcastle Business School and a Professor of Sport Business at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He was the inaugural Director of the Institute for Sport Business at Loughborough University London, UK. He has published extensively on research design and methods and teaches postgraduate research methods internationally.

Aaron C.T. Smith is a Professor and the Director of the University of Canberra Research Institute for Sport and Exercise (UC-RISE), Australia, and a Professor in the Institute for Sport Business at Loughborough University London, UK. He is a specialist in research methods, with a particular interest in qualitative procedures, social media, and cognitive ethnography.

Daniel Read is a Lecturer in the Institute for Sport Business, Loughborough University London, UK. His research interests focus on the digitalization of the sport industry and sport integrity using quantitative and qualitative methods.

Lauren M. Burch is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Sport Business at Loughborough University London, UK. Her research interests focus on examining the gendered construction of brand identity and brand positioning of athletes through social media and the examination of discourse and sentiment within content on social media.

Jacqueline Mueller is a Lecturer in Sport Business and Leadership at the Institute for Sport Business at Loughborough University London, UK. She uses qualitative and quantitative methods in contemporary leadership research.

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Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, Research Methods for Sport Management provides a complete introduction to qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods for sport management students and practitioners.

Inhalt

PART I Overview of the Sport Management Research Process

1 Basic Principles of Sport Management Research

2 The Sport Management Research Process

3 Choosing a Research Design, Reporting Research, and Ethics

PART II Qualitative Research for Sport Management Researchers

4 Qualitative Data Collection in Sport Management Research

5 Qualitative Data Analysis in Sport Management Research

6 Action Research and Sport Management Research

7 Case Study Research

8 Deconstruction and Sport Management Research

9 Discourse Analysis and Ethnomethodology

10 Ethnographic Approaches

11 Emerging Ethnographical Approaches

12 Feminism, Queer Theory, and Standpoint Theory as a Methodology in Sport Management Research

13 Narrative Inquiry and the Stories Sport Management Researchers Can Tell

14 Phenomenology and the Lived Experience of the Sport Management Researcher

15 Emerging Critical Qualitative Approaches for the Sport Management Researcher

PART III Quantitative Research for Sport Management Researchers

16 Research Design for a Quantitative Study

17 Data Collection Methods for a Quantitative Study

18 Quantitative Data Analysis in Sport Management Research

19 Introduction to Inferential Statistics

20 Correlation and Regression Analysis Techniques

21 Determining Difference Among Groups

22 Cluster Analysis, Factor Analysis, and Structural Equation Modeling

23 Non-Parametric Techniques: Chi-Square and Spearman's Rho Correlation

24 Data Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Research

PART IV Alternative Approaches and Methods for Sport Management Research

25 Mixed Method Approaches for Sport Management Research

26 Social Media Techniques for Sport Management Research

27 Social Network Analysis for Sport Management Research

28 A Framework for Sport Management Research: Research 3.0