PROFESSIONALISM, A CHOICE OR AN OBLIGATION?

Journal of Global Sport Management, 2018

How integrity is understood depends on the context. This paper explores the idea of integrity of sport, specifically the sub-elite South Australian National Football League competition. This mixedmethods study utilized both surveys and interviews to understand the issues that threaten the integrity of the South Australian competition. Threats emerged regarding financial remuneration, competition fairness and demands for semi-professional athletes. Athletes competing at sub-elite levels are expected to uphold the same standards as those competing in the national elite competition without the same financial remuneration. This potentially motivates players to leave the sub-elite competition in favor of lower leagues where there are fewer commitments and higher pay. Sub-elite footballers also engage in some high-risk behaviors, which can undermine the community's trust in the sport, thereby threating its integrity. Further research regarding the integrity of football supporters is warranted to maintain the integrity of the overall competition.

Journal of Advances in Sports and Physical Education

Changes in politics, the economy and the social sphere directly or indirectly affect the social value system. The change of society values is mainly attributed to changes in value structures at work. The Protestant work ethic, which places the meaning of life at work, sees moral value as an end in itself, and puts the fulfilment of duty above the enjoyment of existence, gradually loses its relevance. To the same extent that work loses its function and value, sport experiences a fundamental revaluation. Sport becomes an integral part of every person's role. With the sportization of living conditions, sport becomes a social model. The ultimate goal of this research is to examine the causes of changes in society values and their effects on sports / mass sports. The method adopted for the study was a literature review. On the occasion of the present study, it is found that the changing value of sports in society has created new "directorial forms" in sports. So, for example, in leisure time modern sports also serve as a presentation of the independent lifestyle. This impulse finds its expression through an additional gain of aesthetic dimension, which is externally observed in athletic shoes, sports sweaters, sports bags, sports accessories, etc. The expression of individualized values in sports is closely related to the reduction of access routes for sports. This is not only due to the growing number of opportunistic and active athletes, but also to the development of new sport types. New sports such as Windsurfing, paragliding, free climbing or Bungee jumping are in line with the new orientations of values and try to match individualized hedonistic desires in sports. Sport types are multiplying, and leading the sports system, as already described, to an unprecedented complexity. The overall sports system basically becomes more open. This creates completely new access to sports. Sports forms are multiplying and leading the sports system, as already described, to an unprecedented complexity. The overall sports system basically becomes more open. This creates completely new access to sports. The initial selectivity of sports is increasingly losing its importance, so new groups of people such as the elderly, overweight, women or the disabled have more access to leisure sports and widespread sports. Due to the qualitative changes in sports socialization, strong new sport roles have become possible. With the isolation and selection of certain incentives, sport is now more easily accessible. The motivation that previously prevailed in leisure sports and in widespread sports is losing its charm, so some writers talk about the unathleticism of sports or the non-athletic sports. Instead, in sports / mass sports, one seeks pleasure, spontaneity and social contacts.

2014

2014

This abstract book includes all the summaries of the papers presented at the 14th Annual International Conference on Sports: Economic, Management, Marketing & Social Aspects, 19-22 May 2014, Athens, Greece, organized by the Human Development Research Divisionof the Athens Institute for Education and Research. In total there were 21 papers, coming from 14 different countries (Algeria, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Malaysia, Peru, Turkey, UK and USA). The conference was organized into 6 sessions that included areas of Health & Medical Sciences and other related fields. As it is the publication policy of the Institute, the papers presented in this conference will be considered for publication in one of the books of ATINER.

Among the various marks that Olympic sports went through along the last century, the transformation of amateurism into professionalism was one of them. Seen, in the beginning, as one of the main Olympic movement´s pillars, amateurism was overcome by the contemporary sport´s dynamics. It became professional, changing not just the sport´s institutions but also the athletes´ careers, athletes who are the sporting spectacle´s protagonists and also the Olympic Games´ reason to be. The current work aims to present how Brazilian Olympic Athletes´ career professionalization process happened, as well as how it took place in sport´s by the end of last century. Thus, life histories narratives were used as methodology. It is observed, in such narratives, that throughout amateurism, searching for a new career was a normal condition to all athletes. Yet, professionalization did not happen as a national sport´s policy, what meant the development of some modalities, but not the development of sports as a whole.

2013

This abstract book includes all the abstracts of the papers presented at the 13th Annual International Conference on Sports: Economic, Management, Marketing & Social Aspects, 8-11 July 2013, organized by the Athens Institute for Education and Research. In total there were 17 papers and 22 presenters, coming from 11 different countries (AUSTRALIA, BELGIUM, CANADA, CZECH REPUBLIC, FRANCE, ITALY, PERU, POLAND, SWEDEN, UK, USA). The conference was organized into VII sessions that included areas such as Marketing and Management of Sports, Football, Social Aspects of Sports e.t.c. As it is the publication policy of the Institute, the papers presented in this conference will be considered for publication in one of the books of ATINER.

2012

This abstract book includes all the abstracts of the papers presented at the 12th Annual International Conference on Sports: Economic, Management, Marketing & Social Aspects, 9-12 July 2012, organized by the Athens Institute for Education and Research. In total there were 17 papers and 18 presenters, coming from 9 different countries (Colombia, Italy, Iran, Norway, Peru, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey and USA). The conference was organized into 7 sessions that included areas such as Marketing and Management of Sports, Football, Social Aspects of Sports e.t.c. As it is the publication policy of the Institute, the papers presented in this conference will be considered for publication in one of the books of ATINER.

2019

This book includes the abstracts of all the papers presented at the 19th Annual International Conference on Sports: Economic, Management, Marketing & Social Aspects (13-16 May 2019), organized by the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER).

Journal of Sport Management, 2014

The article in this issue of the Journal of Sport Management titled "Sport Without Management" (SWM) is an ambitious project because it wants to "unsettle the takenfor-granted epistemological and ontological foundations upon which most curricular and research-based activities in contemporary sport management are grounded." The article is, first and foremost, a critique of the ways in which sport management is taught and researched in universities and colleges, especially in the United States. As SWM notes early on, it seeks to problematize the underlying assumptions that guide sport management's commitment to capital, science, and managerialism, and in doing so, re-envisage new pathways forward for sport that are productive not just in economic terms, but in ways that might also bring about "cultural and social transformation." "Sport Without Management" therefore aims to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy that makes the market-sport paradigm front and center. The article wants to show how and why sport came to be so management focused and business centric, and in doing so, how it delivered more problems than benefits, and massively inhibited its "potentialities." According to SWM, these inhibited potentialities are everywhere, and embedded in the fact that sport is principally a commercial activity bundled up as an industry that privileges performance and branding and profits. "Sport Without Management" argues that sport's "marketization" has imposed an ideological straitjacket on its capacity to engage with communities, which has further divided it from its civic and community antecedents. Hence, it comes as no surprise that teams are now referred to as brands, athletes are viewed as commodities, and participants become consumers. And, what is more, this is all highly problematic, especially because the whole marketization process has been driven by a virulent form of neoliberalism. The article's audacious aspirations thread their way through its six theses, with each thesis highlighting a problem with not only the practice of sport, but also sport man-www.JSM-Journal.com ARTICLE

Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 2018

A case study to determine the influence of injection molding process parameters on part quality is performed. Part quality is evaluated based on deflection rate, volumetric shrinkage, and sink mark depth results. Considered process parameters are mold temperature, melt temperature, injection time, pack time, pack pressure and cooling time. A thin walled butterfly valve flap and a thick walled butterfly valve shaft are analyzed separately. Polypropylene is used as molding material. A design of experiment based on the Taguchi method is generated for both parts and a computer simulation to solve the case matrixes is executed. Relative process parameter influence on each individual quality criteria is determined by analysis of variance. Importance of process temperatures as well as parameter impact dependence on characteristic part shape is reveled.