Tim Breitbarth

• PhD
• Professor for Sustainability and Sport at Cologne Business School

Boosting board representation of women redresses structural unfairness and improves corporate governance and performance. The Change Our Game initiative, running over 3 years statewide in Victoria, Australia, mandated 40% representation of women on state sport boards. At the start, only 44% of state sport boards had 40% women representation; by the...

Employment plays a crucial role in the successful resettlement of migrants. However, there is a paucity of research on how to facilitate refugee employment outcomes and the role of cross‐sector collaborations. Using a qualitative, multi‐layered analysis of primary and secondary data from Australian settlement service providers (SSPs) and the busine...

The emergence of digital platform start-ups poses a threat to disrupt the logistics industry with new business models. Digital freight forwarders offer platforms that challenge the service offerings of the traditional incumbent logistics providers, yet it is not clear whether these digital platforms have the potential to truly ‘disrupt’ the current...

Research Question Climate change continues to be a critical issue that impacts the ways we produce and consume sport. The extent to which sport responds to climate change (e.g. minimizing carbon emissions, adapting to climate impacts) will become more dire. Thus, it is crucial for sport to respond now to address current and emerging sustainability...

The 2021 Australian Open was like no other previous edition of the Grand Slam tennis event. Australia had virtually closed its borders due to the COVID-19 pandemic and had cut itself off from the rest of the world. Accordingly, this global event was not met with the usual enthusiasm from locals, who instead were concerned that it could increase the...

Sports logistics represents the intersection between the field of (sport) event management and logistics management and refers to efficient and effective logistics activities behind any sports event. The relatively new concept of sports logistics can be regarded as an emerging research stream and focuses on four sports logistics pillars: first, ven...

Research question : The creation of sport media content is guided by the need to cover live, seasonal events, which typically results in the greater coverage of men’s sport than women’s. However, with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, live sport was halted. This paper presents the findings of a study into the media coverage of women in sport duri...

Global, national and regional sport organizations heavily rely on logistics management practices in their operations. However, scientific research in sports logistics is in its infancy, with conceptu-alizations of the sport logistics domain proposed only recently. In response and by using a reoccurring professional sport event as a case, this study...

Purpose This study aims to identify and deconstruct bullshit in banks' corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication to advance the management rhetoric research space, which has been characterised by an indifference to truth and meaning. Design/methodology/approach Based on the management rhetoric theory, the study provides a typology of bul...

Participating in golf improves various aspects of health, including physiological health, self-confidence and cognitive performance. A recent trend that has drawn attention is the positioning of golf as a health sport. However, the development of this initiative is still in its infancy. In this article, we examine the extent to which it makes sense...

The purpose of this study is to examine how effective the international promotion of a sport event is on changing the destination image prior to the event if the sport event lacks global popularity. The authors conducted a quasi-experimental posttest research design, in which they used promotional information of a Tour de France stage to manipulate...

Purpose-Although logistics management is a crucial part of local and global sports events, there is no research-driven characterization of "sports logistics management". The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize a framework that allows for a more structured recognition of logistics in sports, in general, and sport event management, in particula...

Modern societies are challenged by unhealthy lifestyles. There is great evidence that regular physical activity offers positive physiological, mental and social health benefits. Emerging research shows that golf as an activity for a whole lifetime can combine an array of health benefits for all age groups but amongst the elderly in particular. Yet,...

Research question: The contribution frames the special issue ‘Social responsibility and the European sport context’. It investigates and aims to inspire the discussion around what constitutes a European approach in social responsibility and sport management research focussing on how the special historical and persisting features of the European (s...

While corporate sustainability management research in universities has contributed to a greater understanding of sustainability, its current form has limited capacity to make a meaningful impact outside of academia. When it comes to the structures and concepts on which corporate sustainability management research is built, previous research has foc...

This paper is concerned with the rise and, in retrospect, successful “positioning” of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate sustainability as a management idea. It answers to calls that more research is required into the “business case for sustainability,” especially the link between rhetoric and reality. We allow for a narrative‐driv...

July 2017: 246x174: 272pp 33 illustrations Pb: 978-1-138-95717-6 | £34.99 Hb: 978-1-138-95716-9 | £110.00 eBook: 978-1-315-66526-9

The editors and readership of this very journal have appreciated the relevance of sport and governance topics that have been examined by many authors to date (Byers et al., 2015; Sherry et al., 2007; Forster, 2006; Hamil et al., 2004). Notwithstanding the ever-increasing emphasis the sport management scholarly community places on CSR, Slack (2014)...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide practical and future research implications for the field of governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in sports to strengthen the depth of knowledge in this area. Design/methodology/approach: This paper reviews parts of the existing international literature and draws on literature from gen...

Renommierte Experten aus Wissenschaft, Unternehmenspraxis und Zivilgesellschaft analysieren Grundlagen und geben praxisnahe Tipps zur zielgruppengerechten und wirkungsvollen CSR-Kommunikation in sozialen Medien. In exemplarischen Praxisfällen, insbesondere rund um Marken- und Unternehmenskommunikation, Beziehungsauf- und ausbau im digitalen Zeitalt...

Attitudes toward genetically modified (GM) foods have been extensively studied, but there are very few studies of actual consumer purchasing behavior regarding GM foods offering a consumer benefit. Using a field choice-modeling experiment, the authors investigate the trade-off between price and social desirability in consumer choices with regard to...

In this article, we develop a model for measuring corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the club level in European professional football. Modern CSR management and activities have advanced considerably throughout most industries since the late 1990s. However, CSR has only gained recognition in the sports management literature very recently, and...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is taking on an increasingly important role on the public and research agenda as well as in modern business management. This paper investigates CSR in the context of European professional football and contributes to the analysis, presentation and optimisation of CSR opportunities. A comparative study was design...

Strategic corporate and public affairs communication about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has emerged as a major component of corporate efforts to interact with their stakeholders and society at large. Non-financial reporting, and CSR reporting in particular, is now seen as an essential corporate communication process by most members of a co...

This article provides background to measuring local government service performance in New Zealand and charts the practice of measuring service levels developed for a large city council. Projects were completed in 2007, 2008, and 2009 for the purpose of informing the city council's strategy development and management decision making. In each case, d...

This paper contributes to the discussion about Corporate social responsibility (CSR), competitiveness and trade policies, and how trade barriers emerge between countries already committed to CSR and those for whom CSR is still gaining ground. The authors describe the development of CSR within Europe and explain its role in shaping trade relationshi...

Mega sports events provide organisers with a unique opportunity to modify the international image of the host country. The article tracks and analyses the destination image change of travelling New Zealand football fans as a result of having attended the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. The event itself, rather than team support or destination attra...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has attracted considerable interest in the management discipline, but has rarely been evaluated and explored in the sports management research arena. In evaluating the sports, management and marketing literature, this article considers the role of CSR in professional football. It argues that an increased awaren...

This paper reflects on epistemological and ontological aspects of modelling consumer behaviour in the context of individual tourism decision-making. It demonstrates how different paradigms struggle to understand and predict human choices. The shortcomings of positivistic streams of thought (such as the rational choice theory, the information- proce...

This practical application submission provides background to measuring local government service performance in New Zealand and describes the process of measuring service levels developed for a large South Island city council. The projects were completed by an independent marketing consultancy in 2007 and 2008. Data was gathered utilising a range of...

This practice paper is based on the study of New Zealand football fans travelling to the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. It offers empirical findings that help to close the gap in the sports marketing literature about fan consumption in football "fringe nations". The aim is to identify a chain of particular factors that influence fan motivations an...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has attracted considerable interest in the management discipline, but has rarely been evaluated and explored in the sports management research arena. In evaluating sports, management and marketing literature, the paper considers the role of CSR in professional football. It argues that an increased awareness and...