Critical Essays in Sport Management: Exploring and Achieving a Paradigm Shift

Andy Gillentine currently serves as Professor and Chair of the Sport and Entertainment Department at the University of South Carolina, US. Previously, he held positions as the Associate Dean, Associate Professor, and Director of the Sport Administration Programs at the University of Miami, and was Graduate Program Director at Mississippi State University. Additionally, he served as a founding commissioner of COSMA and as chair of a joint task force of NASPE/NASSM charged with formalizing the curricular standards required for accreditation. He has also served on the Sport Management Program Review Council Executive Board and as Chair of the National Sport Management Council. In April 2009, he received NASPE's Sport Management Outstanding Achievement Award.Robert E. Baker is the Director of the Center for Sport Management at George Mason University, US. Prior to initiating academic programs at two different academic institutions, he had garnered extensive sport industry experience. His research interests include professional preparation in sport management, the dynamic relationships among sport industry stakeholders, and sport for development and peace. He has obtained approximately $2 million in external funding and has written dozens of scholarly and professional articles.Jacquelyn Cuneen is a Professor of Sport Management at Bowling Green State University, US, where she teaches sport and event promotion and supervises sport management field experience students. Her research foci are sport-related advertising and professional preparation of sport managers. She has authored or co-authored more than 50 scholarly and professional articles for numerous journals. She has served in various elected and appointed offices for NASSM, the Sport Marketing Association, and the Ohio Association for HPERD.