ABSTRACT

Research question: The paper questions the widespread conceptualisation of sport as industry and business in the research field of sport management. It asks if the field largely neglects sport’s special quality and the study of how managing sport organisations has effects on sport and the sporting human.

Research methods: The paper briefly reviews the recent debate of the sport management research field in its three leading journals, but despite being empirical in part, it is foremost a position and conceptual paper. To bring sport back to the centre of the research field, it suggests that sport is conceptualised as a unique institution in an inter-institutional system.

Results and findings: In light of the massive increase of research papers published in the leading journals over the past decades, debate of where sport management research is going and whom it serves is scanty. It is likely that this deficiency reflects its immersion in an ideology of managerialism that leaves us unconcerned about the wider influence of our research field.

Implications: The paper challenges the research field and its journal editorships to debate where sport management is going, and whom it serves. It encourages discussion that will revitalise and strengthen the discipline and its influence on the practice field of sport management.

摘要

研究问题：本文对体育在体育管理研究领域中作为工商业的广泛概念化提出了质疑。它询问该领域是否在很大程度上忽视了体育的特殊素质，并研究了管理体育组织如何对体育和体育人产生影响。

研究方法：本文简要回顾了体育管理研究领域最近的辩论，该研究在其三本主要期刊中进行了综述，但尽管有部分实证性，但它首先是立场和概念性论文。为了使体育回到研究领域的中心，它表明体育被概念化为机构间系统中的独特机构。

结果与发现：鉴于过去几十年来领先期刊上发表的研究论文大量增加，关于运动管理研究的发展方向和服务对象的争论很少。这种缺陷很可能反映出它沉浸在管理主义意识形态中，这使我们对研究领域的更广泛影响力毫不在意。

启示：本文对研究领域及其期刊的编辑提出了挑战，以讨论体育管理的方向和服务对象。它鼓励进行讨论，以振兴和加强该学科及其对体育管理实践领域的影响。