The Sources of Knowledge of the Economic and Social Value in Sport Industry Research: A Co-citation Analysis.

ABSTRACT: The aim of this article is to map the intellectual structure of scholarship on economic and social value in the sport industry. Given that bibliometric techniques are specially appropriate for identifying the intellectual structures of a field of knowledge and complement traditional literature reviews, a co-citation bibliometric analysis has been applied. This kind of analysis identifies networks of interconnections. Therefore, we aim to detect both the most and the least active research areas in this field, as well as their sub-disciplinary composition. There is an abundance of literature on sport efficiency and economic efficiency in the sport industry, our main conclusion is the identification of a literature gap in regard to social value in sport organisations, which is expected to be

SUBMITTER: Torres-Prunonosa J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7802761 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature