Gonzalo Bravo

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Full) at West Virginia University

This study explored flag football participants in Mexico as potential consumers of games and merchandise of the National Football League (NFL). An online questionnaire was administered through a flag football organization in Mexico. Using K-mean cluster, participants were grouped into four categories based on a combined score of identification with...

Human right activists and proponents of the power of sport as an agent of social change advocate that sport should be treated as a human right. While the perceived value of sport is generally accepted by most people, there is no agreement on how to translate sport as a human right into action. Regardless of the general acceptance and inclusion of s...

The purpose of the study was to examine gender imbalance at the leadership level within Pan American countries’ administrators of National Olympic Committees, National Paralympic Committees and National Sport Organizations. Specifically, this study examined how social and human capital, socio-cultural aspects of each country, and power-based discou...

The current study investigated the relationship between the psychological contract (PC), trust, perceived organizational support (POS), organizational commitment, and turnover intention among collegiate head coaches. In addition, this study explored the moderating effect of procedural justice on the relationship between these variables. Data were c...

Local governments are entities that invest and develop policies for the growth of local communities. Residents interact with local governments and are affected by their decisions (Kim & Manoli, 2021). Political trust is a subjective belief about the perceived quality residents expect from politicians to promote the benefits of their local communiti...

The Sport Intelligence Research Institute had its origins in a collaborative effort that took place in 2013 between the Federal University of Parana and the National High-Performance Sport Secretariat in Brazil. The goal of this joint effort was to collect, organize, and disseminate information about high-performance sport to provide critical infor...

This chapter introduces the reader to the context of sport in the Iberian Peninsula. It also describes the purpose and the organization of the book and provides a summary of the 21 chapters that are organized into five parts. These chapters examine the social, cultural, political, and economic challenges, transformations, and opportunities that exi...

Trail running organizers are increasingly exploiting the economic benefits associated with their events. The extant research on trail running has examined environmental impact (Havlick et al, 2016), participant demographics (Jimenez-Rubio, 2015), motivating factors (Gaffar et al, 2018), and factors influencing travel to participate (Aicher & Newlan...

Understanding the future intentions of individuals who are part of a sport organization is a critical step for the success and the accomplishment of the goals of such organizations, particularly for sporting events that highly depend on the work of volunteers. Therefore, it is important to determine which factors motivate an individual to volunteer...

This study examined coaches’ perceived organizational support (POS) on their affective commitment and turnover intention and the role played by felt obligation (a reciprocal exchange) and workplace familism (a non-reciprocal exchange) on these work-related outcomes. Based on the stratified random sampling, a total of 333 full-time head coaches empl...

[Purpose] The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of perceived organizational support (POS) on the relationships between volunteer job satisfaction, attitude toward volunteering and continuance intention. Also, this study investigated the moderating role of volunteer age in the relationships between study variables. [Design/methodolog...

Avaliar as políticas sociais desenvolvidas por uma gestão não é novidade no Brasil. Tal procedimento já ocorria desde a década de 1980. Entretanto, como bem salienta Almeida (2010), avaliar a política pública de esporte é algo recente no País, pois se iniciou em essência em 2003 com a criação do Ministério do Esporte. Entretanto, em termos de polít...

University volunteering is a recurring resource for many sports organizations that contribute altruistically to the success of small-scale sports events and enhance sustainable development in society. This study aimed to evaluate the motivation of sport volunteers in small sport events, identifying the different profiles of volun-teers according to...

This chapter discusses the challenges of the governance of sport in Latin America with a focus on the Brazilian sport system. The governance of sport across Latin America has been traditionally led and influenced by local governments’ efforts as well as international non-governmental organisations. The Brazilian sport system is comprised of a numbe...

This chapter examines how sport is currently organized in Latin America and the Caribbean. Specifically, it looks at the role of government and other nongovernmental organizations in shaping a country’s sport structure and system. Although important differences exist among the sport systems across Latin America and the Caribbean, many similarities...

Este estudo teve como objetivo investigar a percepção de gestores de esporte sobre os Jogos Escolares Brasileiros. Foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas. Análise e interpretação dos dados revelou que um princípio estruturante que guiou os Jogos foi a identificação e seleção de talentos esportivos. Quanto ao papel dos atores, os gestores obs...

The first part of this chapter discusses the value of sport in society, providing some plausible answers about the importance of sport and its particularities. In the second part, we discuss three perspectives on the contexts of the sport industry and also provide some definitions of what deport management is. Thirdly, the evolution of sports manag...

This study examined the relationship between psychological contract and three work attitudes, job satisfaction, affective commitment, and turnover intention in a sample of National Collegiate Athletic Association coaches. This study also explored the moderating role of the psychological contract by examining coaches' perceptions of the intentional...

International Sport Management, Second Edition, takes a comprehensive look at the organization, governance, business activities, and cross-cultural context of modern sport on an international level. As the sport industry continues its global expansion, this second edition serves as an invaluable guide for students whose careers will require an inte...

International Sport Management, Second Edition, takes a comprehensive look at the organization, governance, business activities, and cross-cultural context of modern sport on an international level. As the sport industry continues its global expansion, this second edition serves as an invaluable guide for students whose careers will require an inte...

Sport mega-events (SMEs) are complex and highly complex undertakings that have important social, political, and economic ramifications. The primary purpose of this paper is to propose, identify, and develop a model that better explains the inherent complexity unique to SMEs. A secondary purpose of the paper is to propose a model whereby SME complex...

This study examined the impacts of volunteers’ motivation and satisfaction through Olympic/Paralympic volunteering experiences on their intention to volunteer for future community events and the moderating role of previous volunteering experience in the relationships among motivations, satisfaction, and intention to continue volunteering. A sample...

Sport mega-events (SMEs) can be viewed as complex social systems. SMEs are planned, organized, and implemented with a certain level of complexity that occurs over an extended period. We argue that structural factors, behavioral and cognitive factors of complexity influence the legitimacy of the SME. Structural factors germane to SMEs operate at the...

This chapter describes several milestone events within the organization of the South American Games, including the local organizing committee’s (LOC’s) ability to manage the organizational complexities of staging such a venture. It also provides a historical account of the Chilean government’s failed attempts to bid and host SMEs and offers plausib...

This chapter discusses the media’s reaction to the South American Games, focusing on the promotion of this event, the strategies used for reaching the public, and the self-evaluation by those who were directly involved with the organization. Overall, media coverage of the games had a positive connotation with a focus on the achievements of Chilean...

Drawing upon institutional theory within the context of emerging markets, we argue that the defining characteristics and outcomes of large-scale first-order events will be replicated in smaller-scale events. This chapter discusses the major findings of this case, suggesting that a number of outcomes and legacies reported in first-order SMEs also oc...

Most studies on SMEs have focused primarily on first-order events hosted in the global north and/or BRICS economies. Second- and third-order SMEs have received significantly less attention despite their popularity and rise in emerging economies. This chapter provides context for understanding what constitutes an emerging economy and the terms schol...

This chapter explores the origins and evolution of the Games in the context of a region that had experienced important political, cultural, and economic changes. Due to an increased awareness within the public sector of the role of sport, the last decade has witnessed the passage of sport legislation and the establishment of public agencies in many...

This chapter provides a broad conceptualization of sport mega-events (SMEs), including various definitions, characteristics, and classifications. The impacts and legacies of SMEs are explored, thus referring to the short-term consequences and more long-lasting factors such as economic growth and well-being of the population. Structural dimensions,...

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the relationship between psychological contract, job satisfaction, affective organizational commitment and turnover intention among coaches in the intercollegiate athletics. The current study also explored the moderating role of the psychological contract breach in the relationships between study...

Chile and the South American Games of Santiago 2014 offers an interesting case to examine an event of sizeable magnitude in a country with little history of hosting sport mega-events (SMEs). This case study will expand the readers understanding of third-order SMEs like the South American Games and highlight the circumstances under which they occur....

The purpose of the study is to examine event quality, satisfaction, and intent to return of spectators attending an international sport event. A modified version of the Scale of Event Quality in Spectator Sports (SEQSS) was used in the current study. We added an additional dimension, parking, that was not included on the SEQSS. Skill, operating tim...

Increasing the sport in the Spanish society has fueled the growth of turnover and number management companies sports facilities. Said growth is clearly judged from the economic analysis of financial ratios such as average profitability, and these are to a greater or lesser extent affected by a changing environment of economic crisis, according to t...

The purpose is to develop a model of consumer behavior in international sport tourism that examines both pre-and post-consumption factors in international sport tourism. A secondary purpose is to address international visitation by introducing national culture as an important component of the model. The proposed model suggests that certain cultural...

A scale that measures three dimensions of organisational legitimacy (cognitive, normative and regulative) in sport management programs was developed with the aim to examine which of these dimensions were perceived to be more important to influence students' choice when applying to a postgraduate sport management program. The study also compared how...

Over the past decade, municipal recreation and sport policies in New York City (NYC) have emphasized community wellbeing and affordability. In the highly privatized market in the United States, many of these subsidized services are seen as unusual, making NYC’s sport policies an interesting case to understand successful publically funded sport prog...

After Russia had stabilized in its transition towards free market economy during 1990-s, governments have been increasing public support of mass and elite sport in the new millennium, reviving Soviet sport practices for improved national health and Olympic success. The phenomenon of the current Russian sport system is that the role of federal, regi...

The study examined how cognitive, affective, behavioural functions and patriotism influence viewing intentions to follow games of the men's US national team and games of the FIFA World Cup in general played during the 2010 World Cup. A questionnaire that included items in three dimensions of the attitude formation theory: 'sport knowledge', 'sport...

This article provides an overview of the government involvement in sport in Chile through the role of the public bureaucracies and how key legislations have shaped the state of sport in this country. It also examines the structure, funding and key strategic initiatives of the current public sport administration. Today, the public office of sport is...

A conjoint experiment was conducted to examine how collegiate athletic administrators make choices in terms of the job attributes deemed to be important when hiring entry-level positions, and the perceived skills and traits to succeed on the job. Seven job attributes considered important for hiring and seven skills and traits critical to succeed in...

Human resource management scholars and practitioners have recognized the importance of understanding the complexities of staffing personnel. This study focused on the perceived importance of attributes for entry-level applicants to collegiate athletic departments. A total of 315 NCAA athletic administrators who were randomly selected responded to a...

Association football is the most popular sport in South America. While teams that are on the Atlantic side have historically gained most of the media as well as academic attention, not much has been written about football for those countries that are along the Pacific coast. Despite their moderate success, football in Chile, Peru, Ecuador, and Colo...

The study examined sporting event rights holders’ perceptions of factors related to their last event and identified factors germane to intentions to return. Results showed that event facility (M = 6.24, SD = .62), accommodations (M = 6.08, SD = .51), security (M = 6.04, SD = .82), supportiveness (M = 5.82, SD = .95), and travel/access (M = 5.50, SD...

Sporting event networks are complex partnerships providing scope for investigation at multiple levels of analysis, including interpersonal, interorganizational, and field level. Based on an integration of the literature on interorganizational relationships, perceived organizational support, and interorganizational commitment, the paper proposes a c...

The design of a well thought out course must satisfy programme as well as student needs. A conjoint model that compares the relative importance of six course attributes that influence students’ preferences was applied to 502 undergraduate sport management studentsattending 12 universities in North America. Results indicated that students prefer a c...

Trade-offs in consumer choice become central to understanding how choice actually occurs. This study examines the trade-offs sport management students are willing to make in order to select the program of their choice. Sport management undergraduate students (N = 498) participated in a full-profile conjoint experiment asking them to rate 18 program...

This study examined the determinants of attendance at the Chilean national soccer tournaments between 1990 and 2002. A multilevel model approach was taken to estimate the effects of several factors, including unobserved sources, hypothesised to influence attendance in Chile. Results regarding team success, team division, population, stadium size an...

Abstract: This study investigated the salience of selected stakeholders on budgetary decisions in high school athletics, the rationale for athletics in education, strategies adopted by schools in balancing their budgets, perceptions of the fairness of various distributive principles, and patterns of institutional isomorphism among schools. A random...

Human resource management scholars and practitioners have recognized the importance of understanding the complexities of staffing personnel. This study focused on the perceived importance of attributes for entry-level applicants to collegiate athletic departments. A total of 315 NCAA athletic administrators who were randomly selected responded to a...