The Role of Sports Economics in the Sport Management Curriculum

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degree in sport management. Many departments would be unwilling to hire a full time tenure track faculty member who could only teach one or two courses in the department. However, my perusal of sports finance texts suggests that it would not be difficult for an economist to develop and teach a course in sports finance at the undergraduate and graduate level. And a statistics based “research methods” course would be similar to an econometrics or economic statistics course. A second limiting factor might be the home of many sport management programs. From Table 3, many sport management programs are housed in departments of physical education, kinesiology, movement science, or health. These departments may be composed of lab sci- entists that have little knowledge of economics, or the role economics plays in business and public policy schools. Such faculty may be unwilling to consider economists when making decisions about job candidates, especially since many sport management searches do not conduct preliminary off-campus interviews. This may also be true in sport management programs housed in departments of physical education. Finally, economics in sport might be revised out of the SMPRC sport management curricular guidelines. Economics in sport is already not listed as a core content area in the SMPRC graduate curricular guidelines. Stier and Schneider (2000) found that sport management professionals were less enthusiastic about the inclusion of economics in sport in the undergraduate curriculum. If sport management programs take this result seriously and respond to industry preferences, sport in economics could be eliminated from the undergraduate guidelines as well. This would limit further growth of sports economics into sport management. References Case, R, (2003) “Sport Management Curriculum Development: Issues and Concerns,” In- ternational Journal of Sport Management 4(4): 224-239. Danylchuk, K. and R. Boucher, (2003) “The Future of Sport Management as an Academic 22
Discipline,” International Journal of Sport Management 4(4): 281-300. Fried, G., S. Shapiro, S. and T. DeSchriver, (2003), Sport Finance, Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics. Howard, D. and J. Crompton, (2004), Financing Sport, second ed., Morgantown, WV: Fit- ness Information Technology, Inc. Mahoney, D., M. Mondello, M. Hums and M. Judd, (2004) “Are Sport Management Doctoral Programs Meeting the Needs of the Faculty Job Market? Observations for Today and the Future,” Journal of Sport Management, 18(2): 91-110. Schneider, R. and W. Stier, (2000) “Sport Management Curricular Standards 2000 Study - Graduate Level,” International Journal of Sport Management 1(3): 137-149. Stier, W., (2001) “The current status of sport management and athletic (sport) administra- tion programs in the 21st century at the undergraduate and graduate levels,” International Journal of Sport Management 2(1): 60-97. Stier, W., and R. Schneider, (2000) “Sport Management Curricular Standards 2000 Study - Undergraduate Level,” International Journal of Sport Management 1(1): 56-69. 23
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