The European Sport Management Quarterly (ESMQ) publishes articles that contribute to our understanding of how sport organizations are structured, managed and operated. Founded by the European Association for Sport Management, the Journal sets out to enhance our understanding of the role of sport management and sport bodies in social life and the way social, political and economic forces and practices affect these organizations.

ESMQ covers all types of sport organization and examines public, voluntary and commercial sport bodies, both amateur and professional; businesses that produce sport-related commodities; and service organizations in the sport industry. ESMQ also explores how non-sporting bodies, such as the state, regulatory authorities, sponsors and so forth, affect the structure and processes of sport organizations. While the Journal welcomes papers with a European perspective, it has a broad geographic range and encourages comparative studies and articles with an international perspective.

In its effort to support new and creative approaches to the generation and dissemination of knowledge about sport management, ESMQ welcomes focused and well-argued papers and proposals for special themed issues of the Journal.

“As founder of the first sport management department in Europe, Co-founder of EASM, Founder and first director of the MEMOS (Executive Masters in Sport Organisation Management) the reference education programme for the International Olympic Committee and National Olympic Committees worldwide, I consider the European Sport Management Quarterly as an indispensible tool for transdisciplinary understanding of sport management issues.”
Professor Jean Camy, University of Lyon

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Peer review is ‘double blind' Three reviews are sought, with reviewers providing commentary / feedback to the author(s); together with information confidential to the Editor and Editorial Administrator (and where required the Associate Editor), consisting of an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the submission on 6 criteria and a recommendation in terms of the decision for publication, revision and resubmission, or rejection. The decision to publish, require amendments or reject is based on the recommendations of the reviewers with the Editor adjudicating if a consensus has not been reached.

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