Resumen de Forty years of leadership research in sport management: : A review, synthesis, and conceptual framework

Jon Welty Peachey

• Scholars have recognized the importance of leadership in the sport industry, with early sport leadership studies emerging in the 1970s. To date, however, there has not been a comprehensive review conducted of the scholarly leadership studies in sport management. Thus, the purpose of this review is to provide a comprehensive synthesis of the sport management leadership literature from the 1970s to the present day, outline what has been learned, and then drawn from this synthesis, articulate a preliminary conceptual model capturing how leadership operates in sport management. A number of clear themes in sport management leadership research and conceptual thinking have emerged, with the proposed conceptual model advancing several leadership antecedents and processes unique to sport. Intriguing directions for sport management leadership scholarship are also illuminated. While progress has been made, there are many questions and gaps going forward that require focused attention from sport management leadership scholars