Evaluating And Measuring: Applying a Management Perspective on Sports: - Guest Editorial

• The overall theme of the EURAM 2011 Annual Conference in Tallinn 2011 was the management of culture in organizations. Organizational culture represents valid corporate past experiences and could be observed as a system that amalgamates values, beliefs, strategies, behaviors, goals and philosophies. Organizational culture may form traditions and norms. It also might influence the creation of routines and procedures, which are useful in order to achieve successful and sustainable development. The ‘Sport as a Business’ track organized by the Special Interest Group (SIG) on ‘Sport as a Business: Internationalization, Professionalization, Commercialization’ at the EURAM conference followed these thoughts and aimed to investigate deeper into the specific organizational culture of institutions in sports, their specific characteristics and their strategies to achieve success. We are grateful to EMERALD for continuing the strong bonds between the SBM Journal and the EURAM ‘Sport as a Business’-SIG by sponsoring an annual best paper award and a best reviewer award. The best paper award in Tallinn was presented to Alexander Kern, Armin Wiedenegger and Michael Schwarzmann (all: Institute for Strategic Management and Management Control, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria) for their paper entitled "Measuring the Efficiency of English Premier League Football: A Two-Stage Data Envelopment Analysis Approach" (included in this volume). The best reviewer award was presented to Mathieu Winand (Postdoctoral Researcher at the Olympic Chair in Management of Sport Organizations, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). The Award Committee was chaired by Patricia Hogan (Northern Michigan University), James Santomier (John F. Welch College of Business, Sacred Heart University) and Benoit Senaux (Coventry University, Business School). We wish to thank the Award Committee and all the reviewers of the track for their excellent work. Out of the 22 accepted submissions to be presented in Tallinn and in addition to the award winning paper, we selected the following four articles for this special issue based on the overall positive reviews and close to the cohesive theme of the special issue on “Applying a management perspective on sports”. These were Neil Moore and Roger Levermore on “English professional football clubs: Can business parameters of small and medium-sized enterprises be applied?”; Tor Brunzell and Sten Söderman on “Board evaluation in the top Nordic football clubs”; Mathieu Winand, Thierry Zintz and Jeroen Scheerder on “A financial management tool for sport federation”; and James Santomier and Robert Gerlach on “Public policy and funding New York´s new sport venues”.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Företagsekonomi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business -- Business Administration (hsv//eng)

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Sport Management

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