The Role of Sports Economics in the Sport Management Curriculum
The Role of Sports Economics in the Sport Management Curriculum
The Role of Sports Economics in the Sport Management Curriculum
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degree <strong>in</strong> sport management. Many departments would be unwill<strong>in</strong>g to hire a full time<br />
tenure track faculty member who could only teach one or two courses <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> department.<br />
However, my perusal <strong>of</strong> sports f<strong>in</strong>ance texts suggests that it would not be difficult for an<br />
economist to develop and teach a course <strong>in</strong> sports f<strong>in</strong>ance at <strong>the</strong> undergraduate and graduate<br />
level. And a statistics based “research methods” course would be similar to an econometrics<br />
or economic statistics course.<br />
A second limit<strong>in</strong>g factor might be <strong>the</strong> home <strong>of</strong> many sport management programs. From<br />
Table 3, many sport management programs are housed <strong>in</strong> departments <strong>of</strong> physical education,<br />
k<strong>in</strong>esiology, movement science, or health. <strong>The</strong>se departments may be composed <strong>of</strong> lab sci-<br />
entists that have little knowledge <strong>of</strong> economics, or <strong>the</strong> role economics plays <strong>in</strong> bus<strong>in</strong>ess and<br />
public policy schools. Such faculty may be unwill<strong>in</strong>g to consider economists when mak<strong>in</strong>g<br />
decisions about job candidates, especially s<strong>in</strong>ce many sport management searches do not<br />
conduct prelim<strong>in</strong>ary <strong>of</strong>f-campus <strong>in</strong>terviews. This may also be true <strong>in</strong> sport management<br />
programs housed <strong>in</strong> departments <strong>of</strong> physical education.<br />
F<strong>in</strong>ally, economics <strong>in</strong> sport might be revised out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> SMPRC sport management cur-<br />
ricular guidel<strong>in</strong>es. <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>in</strong> sport is already not listed as a core content area <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
SMPRC graduate curricular guidel<strong>in</strong>es. Stier and Schneider (2000) found that sport man-<br />
agement pr<strong>of</strong>essionals were less enthusiastic about <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>clusion <strong>of</strong> economics <strong>in</strong> sport <strong>in</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong> undergraduate curriculum. If sport management programs take this result seriously and<br />
respond to <strong>in</strong>dustry preferences, sport <strong>in</strong> economics could be elim<strong>in</strong>ated from <strong>the</strong> under-<br />
graduate guidel<strong>in</strong>es as well. This would limit fur<strong>the</strong>r growth <strong>of</strong> sports economics <strong>in</strong>to sport<br />
management.<br />
References<br />
Case, R, (2003) “<strong>Sport</strong> <strong>Management</strong> <strong>Curriculum</strong> Development: Issues and Concerns,” In-<br />
ternational Journal <strong>of</strong> <strong>Sport</strong> <strong>Management</strong> 4(4): 224-239.<br />
Danylchuk, K. and R. Boucher, (2003) “<strong>The</strong> Future <strong>of</strong> <strong>Sport</strong> <strong>Management</strong> as an Academic<br />
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