- Title
- Women’s professional sport leagues : a systematic review and future directions for research
- Creator
- Thomson, Alana; Hayes, Michelle; Hanlon, Clare; Toohey, Kristine; Taylor, Tracy
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/192256
- Identifier
- vital:17978
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/14413523.2022.2066391
- Identifier
- ISSN:1441-3523 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Women’s professional sport has grown over the last decade and so has academic scholarship investigating it. It is timely to review and consolidate extant scholarship to identify patterns and gaps in research and future directions for research to support continued advancement in women’s professional sport knowledge and practice. This paper presents a systematic quantitative literature review (SQLR) of 57 academic peer-reviewed journal articles researching women’s professional sport leagues and published between 2000 and 2019. We provide bibliographic findings, extend the typical SQLR approach and provide an inductive thematic analysis of article findings to synthesise the knowledge base present in the extant research. Based on our SQLR findings, we highlight four key research directions, including the need for (1) diversity in inquiry and reflexivity by researchers, (2) innovative and enabling theories and conceptual frameworks, (3) transdisciplinary research approaches and (4) sustainable business models for women’s professional sport. We emphasise that to advance our theoretical understandings and sport management practices in women’s professional sport, academics must commit to exploring women’s sport in new and different ways, to achieve new and different knowledge and outcomes. © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Ltd.
- Relation
- Sport Management Review Vol. 26, no. 1 (2023), p. 48-71
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © 2022 The Author(s)
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 3504 Commercial services; 3506 Marketing; 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour; Equity And Diversity; Gender Equality; Professional Sport Leagues; Sport Development; Sustainable Business Models; Transdisciplinary Research
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Funder
- This work was supported by the Australian Research Council Discovery Projects [ARC DP190101722]. https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP190101722
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