Purpose – The purpose of this editorial is to introduce the special issue on the relationship of performance management to sports teams. Design/methodology/approach – The paper explains the importance of performance management to sports teams and justifies the need for the special issue....

Purpose – Team performance in sport is not limited to the players, but extends to the coaching staff and their relationships. This study aims to identify mentoring functions reported by NCAA Division I assistant women's soccer coaches within a head coach‐assistant coach dyad and examine...

Purpose – The purpose of the research is to identify strategies to maximize fan attendance at the Big Ten Wrestling Championships through the creation of segmented markets based on consumers' team affiliation. Design/methodology/approach – The research utilized a survey methodology to...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine within college coaches the effects of pay satisfaction and work‐family conflict (WFC) on occupational turnover intentions. Specifically, it predicts that WFC would mediate the relationship between satisfaction with pay to occupational...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the complexity of – and conflicts inherent in – managing sports leagues at both the league and franchise level. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on changes to the National Basketball Association's (NBA) amateur entry draft,...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate that organizational task interdependence has an impact on the performance of home teams in sport. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a cross‐sectional research design. It tests the authors' hypothesis using a probit analysis of...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to examine the demographic make‐up of volunteers and their motives for participating in a professional tennis event. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses a cross‐sectional descriptive study to investigate the primary motivation of volunteers...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for team selling to sports firms that can be used to more effectively select members for sales and CRM teams and improve the performance of teams in attracting and retaining premium seating customers. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to suggest that a key role of the professional US NFL head coach is as a sensemaker, sensegiver, and driver of intentional change. Design/methodology/approach – Intentional change theory and sensemaking are used to explore NFL head coaches' roles as...