International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing  (IJSMM)

Call For papers

Special Issue on: “Managing Sport Businesses in a Complex Environment”

Guest Editors:
Dr. John Beech, Coventry Business School, UK and
Dr. Simon Chadwick, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

This special edition of IJSMM will explore a variety of topics which
illustrate the range of challenges facing sport businesses that arise from
the complexity of the business environment in which they operate.

While articles will tend to be from a strategic perspective, there are
opportunities for articles which explore the consequences of such
complexity from an operations, marketing, human resource or finance
perspective, or from more specialised perspectives such as risk
management, sports law or the volunteer/professional interface.

Contexts will include not only the more familiar areas of large
professional sport such as major football clubs, F1 motor racing, horse
racing and rugby union but may also cover sponsors, sport broadcasters and
governing bodies, for example.

Subject Coverage

It is hoped that authors will provide a wide range of theoretical
approaches, topics and investigations. Examples of issues that might be
explored include, but are by no means confined to:

Challenges and strategies for risk managers in sport
Managing a sport business in an international context
Reconciling the multiple financial considerations in a 21st century sport
business
Managing opportunities created by proliferation and convergence in the
televised sports market
Commercialisation and fair play: can profit and sport co-exist?
Ethical and governance challenges for sport managers
A view from the frontline: a practitioner view of the challenges facing
sport managers

Notes for Intending Authors

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for
authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting
papers are available on the Papers Submission section under Author
Guidelines

To submit a paper, please go to Submission of Papers

This is our preferred route for submitting papers; please use it if at all
possible. However, if you experience any problems submitting papers in
this way, an alternative route is suggested below

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be
currently under consideration for publication elsewhere

Important Dates

Deadline for submissions: 1 September 2005

Latest date for review decisions: 15 October 2005

Deadline for return of changes: 1 December 2005

Final submission of edited papers: 15 January 2006

Editors and Notes

As an alternative to using the Submission of Papers site, you may send one
copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details in
Author Guidelines) to one of the following:

Dr. John Beech
Coventry Business School
Coventry University
UK
E-mail: [log in to unmask]

or

Dr. Simon Chadwick
Football Governance Research Centre
Birkbeck College
University of London
UK
E-mail: [log in to unmask]

with a copy to:

Editor-in-Chief
IEL Editorial Office
PO Box 735
Olney, Bucks MK46 5WB
UK
Fax: +44 1234-240515
E-mail: [log in to unmask]

Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the
title of the Journal and the name of the Guest Editor