Table of Contents

Part I - Overview of the Sport Management Research Process

1. Basic Principles of Sport Management Research
2. The Sport Management Research Process
3. Identifying the Research Problem, Conducting a Literature Review, and Ethical Considerations

Part II - Qualitative Research for Sport Management Researchers

4. Qualitative Data Collection in Sport Management Research
5. Qualitative Data Analysis in Sport Management Research
6. Action Research and Sport Management Research
7. What is Case Study?
8. Deconstruction and Sport Management Research
9. Discourse Analysis and Ethnomethodology
10. Ethnography and some Emerging Ethnographical Approaches
11. Gender as a methodology in Sport Management Research
12. Narrative Inquiry and the stories Sport Management Researchers can tell
13. Phenomenology and the lived experience of the Sport Management Researcher
14. Emerging Qualitative Approaches for the Sport Management Researcher to consider

Part III - Quantitative Research for Sport Management Researchers

15. Research Design for a Quantitative Study
16. Data Collection Methods for a Quantitative Study
17. Quantitative Data Analysis in Sport Management Research
18. Introduction to Inferential Statistics
19. Correlation and Regression Analysis
20. Determining Difference among Groups
21. Chi-Square and Spearman’s Rho

Part IV - Alternative Approaches to Sport Management Research

22. Mixed Methods Approaches to Sport Management Research
23. Research 2.0: A Framework for Sport Management