著者

宇野 博武 前田 和範

出版者

日本体育・スポーツ経営学会

雑誌

体育・スポーツ経営学研究 (ISSN:24323462)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.370002, (Released:2023-05-17)

参考文献数

45

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Community-based professional sports teams in Japan have played an essential role in regional revitalization. However, teams in provincial cities remain financially unstable and challenging to manage. Furthermore, many of these teams have been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past few years. In the present study, we explored factors that enabled two professional sports teams in a provincial city, Fagiano Okayama (J-League) and the Kochi Fighting Dogs (independent professional baseball league), to successfully maintain their operations despite the challenges faced during the pandemic. We conducted semi-structured interviews with both teams to gather information on their COVID-19 countermeasures and analyzed their organizational resilience. The results revealed that the antecedents of organizational resilience for both teams included “social resources,” “entrepreneurial behavior,” “executive leadership,” “internal communication,” “rapid decision-making mechanism,” “excellent human resources,” “commitment of members,” “optimism and tolerance,” and “support from the league.” We also discovered that team-specific considerations, such as “social resources” (i.e., trust with stakeholders), “entrepreneurial behavior” and “executive leadership” as innovative aspects of management, may be significant for the operational success of professional sports teams in provincial cities.

著者

前田 和範

出版者

大阪体育大学

巻号頁・発行日

2021-03-17

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2020

著者

堀込 孝二 前田 和範

雑誌

国際研究論叢 : 大阪国際大学紀要 = OIU journal of international studies (ISSN:09153586)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.34, no.3, pp.159-170, 2021-03-31

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The number of professional sports teams in Japan is increasing as is the need for the diversification of human resources. The objective of this study is to provide insight into the collaboration of professional sports teams in the Kansai area in Japan with universities, and to examine the different kinds of collaboration. The internet survey conducted indicated that there are six types of collaboration between professional sports teams and universities : collaboration, planning practice, fieldwork/volunteer, surveys, lectures, and others. It was evidenced that the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization (NPB), Japan Professional Football League (J. League), and Japan Professional Basketball League (B. League) had different types of collaboration with universities. In particular, since there are several collaborations in the sports business and management area, it is important for professional sports teams to emphasize their human resource requirements and for universities to meet such requirements.

著者

前田 和範 冨山 浩三 吉倉 秀和

出版者

日本生涯スポーツ学会

雑誌

生涯スポーツ学研究 (ISSN:13488619)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.9, no.1-2, pp.33-42, 2013-03-31 (Released:2013-09-20)

参考文献数

20

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The purpose of this study is to clarify characteristic traits of spectators of newly formed teams in professional sporting leagues. Subjects of this study were spectators at a pre-season match on August 13, 2011 played by Hyogo Prefecture's first pro basketball team, the Hyogo Storks. This game was the Storks first game to which admission was charged. The number of valid responses totaled 302 (97.4%). In order to identify the characteristics of the spectators, we used a cluster analysis using the Push-Pull factors set out by Yoon & Uysal (2005) to obtain a segmentation of the spectators. As a result, we categorized the spectators into four clusters; "spectators who had come to enjoy the game", "spectators who were interested in watching the Storks' first game", "spectators who had a secondary motivation to see the game" and "Hyogo Storks fans". The study revealed that it is possible to increase spectator satisfaction by providing more attractions for a fun day out with respect to spectators who had come to enjoy the game and by creating appeal for enjoying a new experience for spectators who were interested in watching the Storks' first game and Storks fans, who displayed the trait of being innovators. It also revealed that spectator satisfaction could be increased by providing more attractions for the children of spectators who had a secondary motivation to see the game.