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AOM PDW Workshop
Submission: 17380 | Sponsors: (MH, MED, RM)

Sunday, Aug 2, 2026

2:00PM - 4:00PM EDT

Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel in Mezzanine Level Salon 2

PARTICIPATION

PART I (panel): open to all

PART II (round table discussions): open to all

Co-Organizers:

Chad Seifried, Louisiana State University
Kwame Agyemang, University of Kentucky
 

The growth of organized sport as a commercial attraction noticeably prompted the development of sport management as a standalone academic field that presently features professional societies, academic associations, and journals embraced by many colleges of business. In this professional development workshop (PDW), a diverse set of sport management (SM) scholars will lead roundtable discussions focused on providing a historical review of sport management as a developing multi-interdisciplinary field. Next, we will canvass the field's leading journals, including subdisciplines, and provide a historical perspective on their development. This PDW will also relay information about working examples on how to 'best' position sport-based and historical research toward SM journals and likely reviewer orientations to help non-SM scholars (including history) increase their potential for publication success, access to historical sport data, organizations, and practical impact. A secondary goal for this PDW is to help non-SM scholars (including history) find possible collaborators, highlight how the field's top journals feature sport to test, enhance, and invigorate the development of management theory, teaching, and advance industry performance. Importantly, this PDW serves to connect this DIG and others to AOM's new Sport and Management Group, established in 2025 and continues relationship building amongst other AOM divisions.

 

Our PDW will tackle the following charge and questions:

 

Panelists and Topics

PANELISTS AND ROUNDTABLE LEADERS

Kwame Agyemang (Professor, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA)

Bradley Baker (Associate Professor, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Gareth Jones (Associate Professor, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Matthew Juravich (Associate Professor, Akron University, Akron, PA, USA)

Aubry Kent (Professor, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Joel Maxcy (Professor, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Brent Oja (Associate Professor, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, PA, USA)

Chad Seifried (Professor, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA)

Brian Soebbing (Associate Professor, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

Scott Tainsky (Professor, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA)

Nicholas Watanabe (Professor, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA)

ROUNDTABLE TOPICS AND INFORMATION

There will be an opportunity for two 25-30 minute rotations; thus, in one hour, attendees could attend two roundtable sessions on topics like:

a) Balancing Theory and Practical Contributions in SM;

b) Historical Studies in SM;

c) Qualitative Studies in SM; d)

Quantitative Studies in SM;

e) Matching research ideas to SM publication outlets.

Roundtable leaders will provide their perspective on the review process within SM journals from an editor and review board member's vantage point on their topic area. They will communicate what makes for a successful article review process and discuss the importance of orientation toward the sport industry or sport context with research questions, justifications and significance, literature reviewed, and theory examined. Further, they will highlight the expectations regarding the development of methods sections with respect to data collection and samples, analysis, and tools available. Recommendations about how to approach discussion sections will also be discussed, in particular the debate about how much to focus discussion on the sport industry v. broader applications. Table attendees will be invited to pitch ideas or solicit feedback about potential studies they are interested in conducting or already completed. After the PDW, the co-organizers hope to share a document that provides information to attendees about the points of discussion raised in the PDW collectively crafted by the roundtable leaders.