Call for Papers: Special Issue in Journal of Global Sport Management 

The global economic downturn has resulted in changes to public funding that has had subsequent impacts upon the management of sport. This extends from grassroots to elite contexts and has had consequences on public, private and non-profit contexts. In many contexts sport has been asked to deliver higher quality (or more) whilst under fiscal constraint.

To what extent has this economic downturn reshaped the governance and management of sport? Did the financial crisis represent a critical juncture for sport? The intention of this special issue is to attract papers that shed new light on the impact of the economic downturn on sport in order to analyse the patterns of change and continuity in the management of sport in the post-2008 era.

The economic downturn and subsequent government policy reactions is arguably one of the biggest challenges facing sport and our discipline. We encourage papers that address the issue, including those from from a comparative perspective, in order to illuminate the similarities and differences in sport management in its global context. Moreover, we hope to attract new theoretical findings, alongside practitioner-focused strategies undertaken to navigate the challenges for sport and specifically sport management as a result of the global economic downturn. This area of research is very much in its infancy, as such there is huge scope for attend to gaps in the literature through original, rigorous and impactful contributions.

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