Publications

This study investigates voluntary sports clubs' beliefs about how virtual sports may improve club operational performance while simultaneously addressing Sport-for-All goals. For this purpose, this study also explores archetypes in perceptions to adopt virtual sports. Factor analysis, clustering and parametric tests have been used on survey data of 90 clubs. The results show three overarching goals in Sport-for-All policy that may be achieved ...

PurposeProfessionalization is an important issue in many all-volunteer nonprofit organizations (e.g. recreational sports clubs). Therefore, this study relied on the competing values framework and self-determination theory to investigate whether a newly developed intervention can effectively strengthen the management processes and leadership styles in all-volunteer sports clubs.Design/methodology/approachFor this purpose, a rigorous ...

Interpersonal violence (IV) against athletes has gained increased research, policy, and media attention. The purpose of this study is to analyze the scientific sport integrity literature (2010-2020) to better understand (a) to what extent, and (b) how IV has been discussed therein. Implementing Arksay and O'Malley's scoping review framework, 1,342 studies were identified. Most studies focused on doping (n = 930), and to a lesser extent (illegal) ...

Overdue athletes’ salaries, i.e. late, partial or nonpayment of athletes’ salaries in professional sports, increases the risk for match-fixing as athletes are rendered more vulnerable to match-fixing approaches and for giving in to such proposals. Even though research and stakeholders recognize the aforementioned risk, the body of literature addressing the issue from a preventative legal perspective is slim to nonexistent. While the Council of ...

Despite the increasing academic interest in match-fixing, little is known about the behavioral determinants of this phenomenon. This study applies key theoretical concepts of situational action theory (SAT) to sportspersons' decision-making process when confronted with sports-related match-fixing (SRMF) propositions. Using a factorial survey, amateur football players (n = 661), and tennis players (n = 609) in Flanders (Belgium) were asked to ...

This systematic literature review provides an extensive overview of the existing literature on sports sponsorship by controversial industries. Through comprehensive searches in the databases of Web of Science and Scopus, we identified 91 publications meeting our inclusion criteria. These are categorized into prevalence, impact and (in)appropriateness of controversial sports sponsorships (CSS). This review highlights a high prevalence of CSS, ...

This systematic review of research on gambling sponsorship provides insight into the current state of the art of gambling sponsorship research, a theoretical framework for understanding the mechanisms underlying gambling sponsorship's effects, and a future research agenda to guide advertising scholars. Literature searches in Scopus and Web of Science resulted in a total of 46 publications that focus on gambling sponsorships, which can be grouped ...