Sport Industry Research and Analysis

David A. Tobar is Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of Sport Management at Bowling Green State University, USA, where he teaches Research Methods and Sport and Exercise Psychology. He is also the Field Experience Coordinator and supervises sport management internship students. His research interests focus on personality, well-being, and behavior in sport and exercise. Jacquelyn Cuneen is Professor Emerita of Sport Management at Bowling Green State University, USA, where she taught sport and event promotion and supervised sport management field experience students. Her research foci are sport-related advertising and professional preparation of sport managers. She served in various elected and appointed offices for NASSM, the Sport Marketing Association, and the Ohio Association for HPERD.

Part I: Approaches to Collecting Information and Data, 1. Why We Need to Know About Research and Analysis … And What They Have to Do with a Career in Sport Management, 2. Reading and Understanding Existing Research, 3. Approaches to Information Gathering, 4. Descriptive Research and Case Studies: Design and Methods, 5. Experimental Research: Testing the Effects of a Variable, 6. Additional Forms of Research: Qualitative/Naturalistic Inquiry, Historical/Philosophical Research, Delphi Studies, 7. Feasibility and Profitability Studies, Grants and Contracts, and Notes on Measuring and Forecasting Demand, 8. Ethics in Research and Notes on Protecting Participants and Data, Part II: Approaches to Analyzing and Interpreting Data, 9. Introduction to the Research Scenarios and the Data Analysis Software, 10. Issues in Analyzing Data, 11. Descriptive Statistics, 12. Correlation and Reliability, 13. Regression, 14. t-Tests, 15. Analysis of Variance, 16. Chi-square Tests, Appendix A. Survey Data: MiLB Scenario I, Appendix B. Survey Data: Health Club Scenario II, Appendix C. Performance Data: NFL Combine Scenario III