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SPORT BUSINESS CAMPUS ‘07

London, April 17, 2007

CALL FOR ACADEMIC PAPERS

SPORT BUSINESS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

The inaugural Sport Business Campus ’06 was an innovative and stimulating 
approach to conferencing that drew on ten years experience in organising 
top-level conferences and seminars for the sport business client community 
and on behalf of organisations including the International Olympic 
Committee. Details of Sport Business Campus ‘06 can be found at: 
http://www.campus.sportbusiness.com/

For Sport Business Campus ’07, a one-day academic conference will be 
launched, which is intended to bring together academics and practitioners 
involved in the business of sport. This will be an excellent opportunity 
for academics to present the findings of their research and to network 
with practitioners and other academics.

Details of Sport Business Campus 2007, including registration fees, 
venues, etc. will be available shortly. Attendees of the one day academic 
conference, which will be held one day prior to Campus ‘07, will have 
access to the two-day parallel sessions on April 18th and 19th.  

Academics are therefore invited to initially submit Executive Summaries 
(and eventually full papers) that address issues pertaining to the 
management of commercial sport. Submissions falling within one or more of 
the following themes will be especially welcomed:

·	Commercial development of sport and sporting properties
·	Strategic, tactical and change management 
·	Sport marketing, sponsorship and naming rights
·	Broadcasting, media and technology 
·	Managing venues and events
·	Operations, risk and security management
·	Human resource management
·	Finance and accounting
·	Globalisation and international management

The International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship will publish 
a Sport Campus special edition comprising of the best conference papers 
that fit within the Journal’s mission. In some cases, papers that are not 
selected for presentation at the conference may still appear in the 
special edition of the journal. Further details of the journal are 
available from the Editor, Dr Simon Chadwick (see contact details below)

The deadline for the submission of Executive Summaries is December 15, 
2006. 
The deadline for the submission of final papers is April 4, 2007.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All submissions will be double-blind peer reviewed by leading 
international sport management academics. Authors are expected to identify 
the implications for practice of their research within their abstract. 
Executive Summaries will be no more than 400 words and should provide a 
flavour of the article and include the rationale for the study, methods 
used, key findings, conclusions and value added. The Harvard system of 
referencing should be used, further details of which can be found at: 
http://library.curtin.edu.au/referencing/harvard.pdf

All submissions should adopt the following format:

Page 1 -title of the Executive Summary; author(s) name(s), affiliation, 
postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number; up to six 
keywords. 

Page 2 - title of the Executive Summary; Executive Summary.
NB Author(s) name(s), affiliation, postal address, e-mail address, 
telephone number, fax number MUST NOT appear on this page.

Submissions should be sent by e-mail to one of the conference Chairs 
(details of whom can be found below) as Word documents (ideally version 
2000 or later). For administrative purposes, authors should submit their 
manuscript together with a covering letter. Receipt of submissions is no 
guarantee of acceptance for presentation. 

The Chairs decisions regarding acceptance/rejection will be final. Authors 
whose Executive Summaries are accepted for “full paper” status will be 
notified by February 15, 2007

Further information about the Sport Business Group can be found at the 
following web site: http://www.sportbusiness.com

ADDITIONAL NOTE

Footnotes and endnotes may be used in both the Executive Summary and the 
final paper, but only where appropriate and as sparingly as possible. 
Tables, charts, diagrams and figures should be in black and white and 
placed on separate pages at the end of the manuscript. Authors must 
indicate in the main body of the text approximately where each table, 
chart, diagram or figure should appear. The accuracy of references used is 
the responsibility of the author(s). Final papers are expected to be no 
less than 4,000 words and no more than 8,000 words in length.

CONFERENCE CHAIRS
 
Dr. Simon Chadwick			
Co-Director – Birkbeck Sport Business Centre
Editor – International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship
University of London
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX
UK

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Tel:	0044 (0)20 7079 0802
Fax:	0044 (0)20 7079 6769
Web:	www.sportbusinesscentre.com 

Dr. James Santomier, Jr.
Director, Sport Management Program
John F. Welch College of Business
Sacred Heart University
5151 Park Avenue
Fairfield, CT 06825-1000

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Tel: 1.203.371.7849
Fax: 1.203.365. 7538