Torres-Pruñonosa Jose, Plaza-Navas Miquel Angel, Díez-Martín Francisco, Prado-Roman Camilo
Facultad de Empresa y Comunicación, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Logroño, Spain.
Institución Milá y Fontanals de Investigación en Humanidades, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona, Spain.
Front Psychol. 2020 Dec 29;11:629951. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.629951. eCollection 2020.
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 a research opportunity for scholars. This is in line with the lack of standardisation in the measurement for social value in sport organisations. In fact, similar to analysis undertaken in the past few decades of other industries with contributions to stakeholders and the multi-fiduciary theory of stakeholders, both the creation of social value indicators for sport entities and the empirical analysis of social efficiency in sport institutions, are identified and outlined as future areas of research. Therefore, this bibliometric analysis will contribute to determine the future challenges that this area of research will face in the following years so as to fill the literature gap identified.
本文旨在梳理体育产业经济与社会价值领域学术研究的知识结构。鉴于文献计量技术特别适用于识别知识领域的知识结构，并能补充传统文献综述，本文采用了共被引文献计量分析方法。这种分析能够识别相互联系的网络。因此，我们旨在找出该领域最活跃和最不活跃的研究领域，以及它们的子学科构成。体育产业中关于体育效率和经济效率的文献众多，我们的主要结论是发现了体育组织社会价值方面的文献空白，这有望成为学者们的一个研究机会。这与体育组织社会价值衡量缺乏标准化的情况相符。事实上，与过去几十年对其他行业利益相关者贡献及利益相关者多信托理论的分析类似，为体育实体创建社会价值指标以及对体育机构社会效率进行实证分析，都被确定并概述为未来的研究领域。因此，这项文献计量分析将有助于确定该研究领域在未来几年将面临的挑战，以填补所发现的文献空白。
