An International Congress in Sport Management scheduled for 5 – 8 June 2008 in San Juan de los Morros, Estada Guarico de la Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela was cancelled at the last minute. The purpose of this conference was to gather academics from different countries in Latin America to start a Latin American Organization in Sport Management. There were speakers scheduled from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Cuba, Cayman Islands, the USA, and Venezuela.
Contact: Rosa López de D'Amico Rosa Lopez de D'Amico
Email: rlopezdedamico@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.easm.net/
The 16th Annual EASM Conference was co-hosted by EASM, the University of Bayreuth, and the University of Heidelberg in Heidelberg, Germany, 10-13 September with 415 participants. There were 186 presentations from 32 countries with 33 reviewers involved in the process. There were also 21 submissions for the New Researchers Award. The European Masters Student Seminar that was run prior to the conference in Bayreuth 6 – 10 September consisted of 68 students from 14 countries. There was also a Sport Business Day tour on 13 September for those individuals interested in visiting various facilities (stadium, arena, Formula 1 racetrack) in the Rhein-Neckar region. Furthermore, as a few EASM board members were due to retire, the board was intensified with new members: Ruth Crabtree and Herbert Woratschek joined the board in addition with Gerard Barreau as the new Treasurer.
The 17th EASM conference will be organized in 16 -19 September 2009 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The theme of this conference is ‘Best practice in sport facility and event management’. Everyone is invited to meet the top academics and the leaders of sport industry in the Amsterdam Arena.
EASM now has 250 members. The 2010 EASM conference will be in Prague on 11-16 September.
Contact: Kari Puronaho, Secretary General
E-mail: kari.puronaho@vierumaki.fi
Phone: +358-40-5867493
EASM Office, Sport Institute of Finland, Kaskelantie 10, 19120 Vierumäki, Finland
Website: http://www.nassm.com/
NASSM 2008 Conference:
The NASSM 2008 Annual Conference, hosted by the Department of Sport Management at Brock University with a theme “Good Sport Makes Good Business”, was held in Toronto, Canada, on 28 – 31 May. There were 434 registered delegates who attended conference.
At the conference, a number of NASSM members were recognized with various honors. Dr. Lucie Thibault was honored as the 19th recipient of the Dr. Earle F. Zeigler Lecture Award. The Dr. Garth Paton Distinguished Service Award was presented to Dr. Robin Ammon. The recipient of the newly created Distinguished Sport Management Educator Award was Dr. Jackie Cuneen. A number of individuals, including Dr. Michael Judd, Dr. Jennie Bruening, Dr. Marlene Dixon, Dr. Ketra Armstrong, and Dr. Jeff James, were selected as NASSM research fellows.
Masayuki Yoshida, a doctoral candidate at Florida State University (Advisor: Dr. Jeff James) was selected as the winner of the Student Essay Competition. His research paper is entitled: Value Creation: Assessing the Relationships between Big Q, Consumption Value, and Behavioral Intentions at Sporting Events.
NASSM 2009 Conference
The NASSM 2009 Annual Conference will be hosted on 27 – 30 May by the Department of Sport and Entertainment Management at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. Please check the NASSM website, http://www.nassm.com/NASSM2009/ for more information on the conference. You may also contact Matt Brown, Chair of the NASSM 2009 Conference Organizing Committee at matt.brown@sc.edu
NASSM Membership
As of 25 May 2008, there were 873 NASSM members (444 professional members, 421 student members, 8 emeriti). Comparatively at the same time last year, there were 763 NASSM members. The final number is expected to be higher than 898, the total number of members in 2007.
Accreditation
Five Board of Commissioners were selected to the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA) on 28 May 2008. The National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) and NASSM each appointed one member. The rest of the board was selected by a task force developed specifically for the formation of COSMA. Recently, a COSMA program manager was hired to manage the day-to-day function of COSMA-related business, including accepting applications, growing membership, training site evaluators, and assisting institutions through the accreditation process. For more information about COSMA, please visit www.cosmaweb.org or contact the program manager by e-mail at cosma@cosmaweb.org or by phone at 703-476-3394.
Contact: Ming Li, NASSM President
Ohio University
Email: lim1@ohio.edu
North American Society for Sport Management
Call for Papers
2009 NASSM Conference
May 27 – May 30, 2009 – Columbia, South Carolina, USA
http://www.nassm.com/NASSM2009/
NASSM invites individuals to submit a variety of abstract types, including empirical, methodological, conceptual, and teaching related abstracts. Submissions will begin to be accepted on October 8, 2008. Completed research or research in progress is acceptable.
Abstract Format and Submission: For 2009, NASSM will be utilizing a new abstract processing system (Abstract Central), and specific instructions for submission will be posted soon at http://www.nassm.com/InfoAbout/Conference/AbstractSubmission.
Submission Deadline: Abstracts should NOT be submitted prior to October 8, 2008, and MUST be received no later than NOVEMBER 14, 2008 (11:59 PM, PST). Submissions received after this date and time will not be accepted or reviewed.
Review Process: All abstracts will be subjected to a blind review. No preference will be given to longer abstracts. The review criteria will be based on the presentation category. For more information on the criteria, please consult http://www.nassm.com/InfoAbout/Conference/AbstractSubmission
| Program Information Contact: | Conference Information Contact: |
Dr. Aubrey Kent |
Dr. Matt Brown |
Website: http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/gbs/tlhs/smaanz/home.html
Upcoming SMAANZ Conferences
SMAANZ will hold its 14th annual conference in Fremantle, Australia, at the Esplanade Hotel (26-29 November, 2008). The theme of "Raising the Bar: Promoting Excellence in Sport Management" is particularly appropriate to Fremantle, as it has a rich history of sporting achievements.
The industry day is organized for Thursday, 27 November 2008, at Winthrop Hall, University of Western Australia. Active 08 is Western Australia’s premier sport and recreation industry conference. As 2008 is an Olympic year, Active 08 will focus on ‘high performance’. However, high performance does not only refer to elite sport.
The 2009 SMAANZ Conference will be hosted by Southern Cross University, Department of Exercise Science and Sport Management (DESSM) at Tweed Heads/Coolangatta. Southern Cross University is opening a new Gold Coast Campus in mid 2009 in an area adjacent to the Gold Coast airport. This will house the headquarters for the Conference and where presentations, forums and some attendant activities will take place. In the highly unlikely event of this new campus not being ready for occupation, the existing Tweed Gold Coast Southern Cross campus (situated 1.7km away) will be utilised.
A New Best Paper Award
SMAANZ in connection with Elsevier wishes to announce that it will be awarding a prize for the most outstanding paper presented at its annual SMAANZ conference. Winners will receive a prize of USD$500. The award honours the commitment of an individual or group of people to sport management through scholarly written dissemination of a research project or of a significant contribution to sport management knowledge .
The Award is not based on a paper already under consideration by a peer reviewed journal and The Awardee(s) will be expected to submit their work for review and possible publication in the journal of Sport Management Review (SMR). Nominees (at least one author), must be a current financial member of SMAANZ and Keynote and Plenary sessions are not eligible for the Award. Expressions of interest occur upon your abstract’s acceptance for a full presentation at the conference. Subsequently, a 10-12 page-long paper is required to be submitted to the Award coordinator four weeks before the conference. For more information contact Popi Sotiriadou, Award Coordinator, psotiria@bond.edu.au.
Sport Management Review: A New Publishing Partnership
We are delighted to announce that from 2009 Sport Management Review will be published by Elsevier on behalf of the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ). Authors are invited to submit a paper online to Sport Management Review using Elsevier’s Editorial System (EES) - please visit http://ees.elsevier.com/smr. Sport Management Review publishes articles on any topic of interest in the field of sport management, with particular focus on the following themes:
• Sports Governance and Leadership
• Sports Tourism and Events
• Sports Marketing, Media and PR
• Sports Policy and Development
• Sports Law
• Sports Participation and Social Issues
Editor: Professor Graham Cuskelly
Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Australia
Email: smr-editor@griffith.edu.au
Correspondent: Popi Sotiriadou, SMAANZ Board Member, Newsletter Editor psotiria@bond.edu.au
Chandrakasem Rajabaht University in Bangkok, Thailand, will host AASM’s third annual conference 27-29 November 2008. The theme of the conference will be “Impacts of 2008 Olympics on Asian Sport Management”. Although the date of this conference conflicts with the SMAANZ conference, this was the only workable date for the Bangkok organizers. AASM is considering an alternate date for its future conferences to avoid such conflict. The next AASM conference is not fully confirmed, but might be in Taiwan. The second issue of AASM’s online journal is in preparation.
Correspondent: Karen Danylchuk
Correspondent: Yoshifumi Bizen
Email: y-bizen@akane.waseda.jp
The International Alliance Day session took place on Wednesday, 10 September from 2-4 pm and consisted of presentations from the Presidents of EASM, NASSM, SMAANZ, and AASM speaking about “Recent developments in sport management: Strengths and weaknesses”. The main goal of this Alliance Day session was mutual information about the latest topics in each association and discussions about potential cooperation between the associations in the future.
Correspondent: Karen Danylchuk
Email: karendan@uwo.ca
Darlene A. Kluka joined Barry University, Miami, Florida (USA) after finishing her second doctorate (D Phil), this one in sport management, from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is the coordinator of sport management programs at Barry University. (Email: dkluka@mail.barry.edu)
Steven Pope was recently appointed as Director of the International Center for Performance Excellence at West Virginia University (USA). He will also provide oversight of Fitness Information Technology publications.
Sally Ross has moved from Bowling Green State University to a faculty position in sport and leisure management at the University of Memphis (Email: sross3@memphis.edu)
Damon Andrew is now the Dean of the College of Health and Human Services at Troy University (Alabama, USA) after having served as an Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee (Email: dandrew@troy.edu).
Chrysostomos Giannoulakis, who completed his Ph.D. at the University of Northern Colorado in August 2008, has joined the Department of Recreation and Sport Management at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (USA) (cgiannoulakis@unlv.edu).
Julie Weible will teach and conduct research in the Bachelors of Applied Business and Entrepreneurship - Sport and Recreation program at Mount Royal (Calgary, Canada). Julie is w completing her PhD in Workplace and Adult Learning at the University of Calgary
Robert Zullo has joined James Madison University's Sports & Recreation Management Program after three years at Mississippi State University.
Alan Morse and Adam Love are new faculty at Mississippi State University (USA).
Kevin Byon is now an Assistant Professor of Sport Management at the University of Southern Mississippi (USA). He is a recent graduate from the University of Florida.
Galen T. Trail (Email: trailg@seattleu.edu) has moved to Seattle University.
Eickhoff-Shemek, J., Herbert, D., & Connaughton, D.P. ). Risk Management for Health/Fitness Professionals: Legal Issues and Strategies (2009). Baltimore, MD: Lippincott. ISBN-13: 978-0-7817-8364-4. This text is specifically designed and written to provide education and information to fitness, exercise, allied healthcare/wellness and health promotion students, practitioners, and managers.
The European Sport Management Quarterly (ESMQ) will publish a special issue in 2010 on Sport Management Cultures. The Special Issue seeks to expand our knowledge about the cultural meaning of and the role of culture in understanding sport management. The broader aim is to transcend the Western scientific rationality, which is no longer sufficient to explain a whole multiplicity of ontologies that organize human experience and to urge sport management students to pay attention to the cultural meaning of management by generating local knowledge and solutions to sport problems. Interested contributors are invited to submit a standard two-page abstract through the abstract submission process of the 17th EASM 2009 conference (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 16-20 September 2009, www.easm2009.com) by 11 April 2009. However, submission of manuscripts is not limited to those participating in the workshop, but open to everyone interested in the topic. Manuscripts should conform to guidelines for the journal (publication manual of the American Psychological Association 5th edition). Contributions should not exceed 7,000 words although papers of a shorter length are encouraged. Papers should be submitted in electronic format to the editor no later than November 30th, 2008.
Contact: Vassil Girginov, Brunel University, UK. Email: vassil.girginov@brunel.ac.uk
Consumer Behaviour in Sport and Events: Marketing Action (ISBN-10: 0750686669, ISBN-13: 978-0750686662, Butterworth-Heinemann/Elsevier) emphasizes the role of consumer behaviour in sport and event marketing. Given the social, economic, and environmental benefits of sport and sport events, the challenge for marketers is to understand the complexity of sport and event participation. Through a heightened understanding of consumer behaviour, marketers are able to develop communication strategies to enhance the experience, while identifying key elements of the consumer's decision-making process.
This comprehensive text covers a wide range of determinants that influence both active recreation and passive spectator participation, and offers the reader:
• A detailed understanding of the personal, psychological and environmental factors that influence sport and event related consumer behaviour
• A basis for the development of marketing actions useful in sport and related business, community and government sectors
• A comprehensive understanding of how individuals associate themselves with sport and event products and services
• A quick and simple segmentation tool to guide discussion of marketing actions and strategies for four stages of involvement with sport and events
• A comprehensive events checklist to help understand marketing actions related to the development, promotion and delivery of a sport event.
Contact: Dan Funk, Griffith Business School, Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management, Griffith University Gold Coast Campus,PMB50 GCMC QLD 4222 Australia
Email: d.funk@griffith.edu.au
Website: http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/gbs/tlhs/
Li, M., Pitts, B. & Quarterman, J. (2008). Research Methods in Sport Management. Morgantown, West Virginia: Fitness Information Technology, Inc. ISBN: 9781885693853
Features of Research Methods in Sport Management include sound guidelines to learning and building knowledge and skills in doing research, practical and useful examples from the real world of sport business, an organized presentation of research methods from the most basic to the complex, inclusion of timely issues of ethics in research practice and reporting, emphasis on sound decision making in research practice, and a research process model that guides from question development through to research method and application.
Jean-Loup Chappalet and Andrea Petroczi are guest editing the 2009 Special Issue of the European Sports Management Quarterly. The aim of this special issue is to examine the dark side of sport, focusing on problems like abuse (child abuse, sexual harassment, hazing), cheating, match fixing, corruption, doping, violence, hooliganism, exercise addiction, eating disorder, the Female Athlete Triad, clientelistic support of sport/misuse of political power, etc. The submission deadline is November 30th, electronic submission via Taylor & Francis with a cover letter clearly stating that the submission is for the 2009 Special Issue on the Dark Side of Sport.
Contact: Andrea Petroczi, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science
Kingston University, UK
Email: a.petroczi@kingston.ac.uk
Malmö University, Sweden, and idrottsforum.org, the Nordic sport science web forum, are proud to announce a new academic journal in the field of sport studies, Nordic Sport Studies Forum (NSSF, www.sportstudies.org). The Editorial Board especially encourages Nordic scholars to contribute to this first peer reviewed academic sport studies journal in the Nordic countries; however, author nationality is not a selection criteria, and the journal publishes articles in English as well as in Danish, Norwegian or Swedish.
Nordic Sport Studies Forum is a peer reviewed journal published online, and available free of charge in accordance with the emerging new concept for scientific publishing, Open Access. The Journal is discipline neutral, accepting original theoretical and empirical research contributions from any and all academic disciplines within the humanities and social sciences, including, but by no means limited to sociology, psychology, pedagogy, economy, law, media studies, ethnology, philosophy, history, cultural studies, gender studies, leisure studies.
Given the multi-disciplinary approach, there are few submission guidelines. Articles should not exceed 7000 words. Manuscripts should be sent to the Editor in compliance with the conditions necessitated by the anonymous review process. Further details are available on the journal’s homepage, www.sportstudies.org.
Editor: Kjell E. Erickson, Malmo University
Assistant Editors: Karin Brook and Ingela Kolfjord, Malmo University
Contact: Kjell E. Eriksson [kjell.eriksson@IDROTTSFORUM.ORG]
Journal of Sport Administration and Supervision has been created to be a distinctive open-access research outlet that impacts the sport industry through a unique approach to academic knowledge. The mission of the Journal of Sport Administration and Supervision is to develop, advance, disseminate, promote, and preserve knowledge within the academic discipline of sport management by providing an outlet that is both grounded in academic theory and driven by the needs of practitioners and the environment of the sport industry. JSAS seeks to be a channel of pragmatic information that encourages practitioners in the sport management field to champion ethics and pioneer innovation by helping create a greater understanding of the applicability of sport management research to their organizations, job duties, and skills.
JSAS will be a publication of the Middle Tennessee State University Sport Management program in partnership with the University of Michigan Library’s Scholarly Publishing Office (which will house the journal) in order to disseminate research knowledge in a format that is readily and globally accessible to scholars, practitioners, students, media, and the public.
Contact: Colby B. Jubenville,
Middle Tennessee State University
E-mail: jubenvil@mtsu.edu.
Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing. Special Issue on "International Sports Marketing"
Guest Editors: Vanessa Ratten and Hamish Ratten
http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=660
Contact: Vanessa Ratten, Leadership, Ethics & Global Business Division,
A J Palumbo & J F Donahue Schools of Business Administration, Duquesne University (USA)
Email: vanessaratten@gmail.com
Louisiana State University (USA) now offers a Bachelor of Science degree in Sport Administration. Contact Aaron Clopton (awc@lsu.edu)
Sport Marketing Association’s new executive board was recently announced. Bill Sutton, University of Central Florida (USA) is SMA’s new president. Joining Dr. Sutton on the Executive Board are Vice President of Academic Affairs; Dan Funk, Griffith University (Australia), Vice President of Industry Relations; Jim Kadlecek, Mount Union College (Ohio, USA); Vice President of Student Relations, Dan Drane, University of Southern Mississippi (USA); and Secretary/Treasurer, Nancy Lough, University of Nevada Las Vegas (USA).
Temple University (USA) has begun a new sport management Ph.D. program in Business Administration with a specialization in Tourism and Sport, offered through Temple's Fox School of Business. Applications are currently being accepted. Letters of interests or inquiries can be sent to Aubrey Kent (aubkent@temple.edu).
The College Sport Research Institute (CSRI) has relocated to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA) and is housed in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science within the College of Arts and Sciences.
In conjunction with its role in supporting collaborative research, CSRI also sponsors the Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics (JIIA). JIIA is a peer-reviewed, scholarly, open-access journal dedicated to encouraging, supporting, and disseminating interdisciplinary and interuniversity collaborative college-sport research. More information about JIIA can be found at http://csri-jiia.org.
CSRI will host the 2009 Scholarly Conference on College Sport from 15 – 18 April 2009 at the William and Ida Friday Center on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This second annual event is for faculty, athletic administrators, students, sport practitioners, and the public interested in research, theory, and critical thinking about college sport and surrounding issues. This exciting and informative conference will provide an open forum for independent, organized and focused cross-disciplinary research regarding college sport in the United States. The Conference will provide information and experiences through prominent keynote speakers, invited panels, and two days of juried academic presentations.
Contact: Robert Hayden, CSRI Communications Coordinator
Email: rhayden@email.unc.edu
Website: www.unc.edu/csri
Conference: www.csriconference.org
Play the Game, the world communication conference on sport and society, will travel to Coventry, UK, for the first time. The conference, taking place 15-19 June 2009, is to be co-organised by Coventry University’s Centre for the International Business of Sport (CIBS).
For more information and updates about Play the Game 2009, subscribe to the Play the Game newsletter at www.playthegame.org or contact conference manager Maria Suurballe at maria@playthegame.org.
The Centre for International Business of Sport (CIBS) is an applied research institute at Coventry University. The Centre for the International Business of Sport (CIBS) delivers high quality applied research, training, consultancy and networking outputs across a range of sports and in a number of different disciplines.
Visit CIBS at http://www.coventry.ac.uk/researchnet/d/691.
Mount Royal College’s (Canada) sport and recreation program successfully completed its first international field school in Europe focusing on the legacy of hosting Olympic and Paralympic Games. The tour took place in May with thirteen students led by David Legg visiting Barcelona, Torino and Lausanne. Highlights included presentations in the IOC Boardroom, visits with students at the FIFA Masters Program and International Academy of Sports Science and Technology in Lausanne, tours of Olympic Museums and facilities, lectures by leading faculty, a visit to the Johan Cruyff Institute for Sport Studies and two football matches. The class also had lectures by practitioners in Canada prior to departure including one by Dale Henwood, President of the Canadian Sport Centre Calgary focusing on the legacy of the 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary, a presentation by former IOC member and International Paralympics President from 1989-2001 Dr. Robert Steadward on bidding for Major Games and from Carla Qualtrough, Manager of 2010 Legacies Now responsible for ensuring the legacy of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympics Games in Vancouver.
Contact: David Legg, Dept. of Physical Education and Recreation Studies
Mount Royal College
Email: DLegg@mtroyal.ca
http://www2.mtroyal.ab.ca/~dlegg/
George Mason University (Virginia, USA) has two trips running in 2009. The first is primarily aimed at outdoor education (course in outdoor education and leadership) and hospitality and tourism students though we have added a strand in sport and tourism event management. It is to Cape Town, South Africa, and Livingstone, Zambia (for Victoria Falls), and runs March 7-22. The second will go to Australia and New Zealand for sport management and for sport science and athletic training students (one general itinerary with different class meetings and talks) which will run July 6-23.
Contact: John Nauright, Director, Academy of International Sport
George Email: jnaurigh@gmu.edu
16th IAPESGW World Congress, 16 - 19 July, 2009. Stellenbosch, South Africa. The International Association for Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women extends an invitation to attend the 2009 IAPESGW World Congress. This congress, with the theme Practice and Research in Physical Education and Sport in the spirit of Ubuntu,
Contact: Local Organising Committee Scientific Committee
Doreen SOLOMONS solomons.d@doe.gov.za
Prof Dr Anneliese GOSLIN anneliese.goslin@up.ac.za
Conference website: http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=8114&subid=8114&ipklookid=9&0=91&ArticleID=91
Sport Marketing Association announces SMA VII-2009 to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Being hosted by the Mount Union College Sport Business program, SMA VII will be 28-30 October 2009 at the Cleveland Renaissance Hotel in downtown Cleveland. A terrific line-up of industry and academic presentations, visits to Quicken Loans Arena (Cleveland Cavaliers)and Progressive Field (Cleveland Indians) as well as a trip to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Contact: Jim Kadlecek, Mount Union College (kadlecjc@muc.edu)
The Ninth Conference of European Academy of Management (EURAM 2009) will be held in Liverpool, UK on 11- 14 May 2009. A separate track of presentations will be devoted to sport business. The track seeks to gain a better understanding of the unique development in sports and sport-related industries towards internationalisation, professionalisation and commercialisation. Contact: Harald Dolles, Heilbronn Business School, Germany
Email: dolles@hn-bs.de
Ithaca College (USA) will be hosting the Sport, Sexuality, and Culture Conference: Toward A More Human and Humane Sport Enterprise on 18-19 March 2009. Scholars, students (both undergraduate and graduate), public policy makers, activists, and sport industry leaders are invited to submit papers or poster abstracts addressing one or more of these themes dealing with heterosexism/homophobia/transphobia in sport; experiences of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgendered athletes, coaches, administrators, sport journalists, and others working within sport; legal and public policy issues associated with sex and sexual orientation discrimination in sport; activism around issues of sport, sexuality, and culture; media, sport, and sexuality; intersectionalities around gender, race, sexuality, and sport; gender violence and sport; reconceptualizing the culture of sport; representations of LGBT athletes in the culture and in sport culture; and issues of sexuality, sport, and culture in the classroom, in the workplace, or on athletic teams.
Contact: Ellen J. Staurowsky, Department of Sport Management & Media
Email: staurows@ithaca.edu
Sport, Race and Ethnicity: Building a Global Understanding. University of Technology, Sydney Australia, 30 Nov - 2 Dec 2008. This event provides a forum within which to engage the sport industry, journalists and academics in proactive discussion about issues of cultural diversity, equity and capacity in the colourful world of global sport. Keynote speakers are: Prof John Hoberman, University of Texas at Austin, USA ; Kevin Hylton, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK; John Sugden, University of Brighton, UK .
For more details, see http://www.business.uts.edu.au/lst/sre/
The Sport Sales Combine, coordinated by Richard Irwin (University of Memphis) and Bill Sutton (University of Central Florida), will be hosted by the Atlanta Hawks and Thrashers in early January, 2009. The three-day program provides participants sales training experience working directly under the supervision of professional sales team leaders. All Combine participants receive personalized ticket sales coaching from leading sport management educators, sales force managers, directors and trainers; real-life, hands-on experience selling specifically designed Atlanta Hawks and Thrashers ticket plans; and, the opportunity to showcase personal selling skills to sport ticket sales scouts and hiring managers. To learn more about the 2009 Sport Sales Combine please visit www.sportsalecombine.com.
If you have suggestions or comments to enhance the GSMN, please contact Jim Thoma, Global Sport Management News, Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio 44601, USA.
Email: thomaje@muc.edu
Website: http://raider.muc.edu/global/index.html
Publisher: James Thoma
Assistant Publisher: Sarah Eckersley
Lay-out: Michael Ihrig
We wish to thank Mount Union College for its production assistance with the Global Sport Management News.