国内におけるプロスポーツ経営研究の統合的文献レビュー

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This study aimed to objectively and quantitatively explore domestic professional sports management research by conducting an integrative literature review, including the clarification of research topics and trends and a discussion of future research agendas. A total of 113 articles were collected from seven Japanese journals related to sport management research. Topic modeling based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation was applied to analyze the research topics. After topic modeling, the articles were aggregated by 16 research topics: Spectator behavior, consumer behavior and intention, product and spectator characteristics, sponsor and brand, attendance and spectating frequency, spectating needs, top sports players, youth and rookie players, human resource development, profitable business and governance, economic value and impact, organizational studies and globalization studies, stakeholder, community/local and life, league management, and others. Of these, the number of articles in spectator-related research topics accounted for 41.6% of all articles. However, an increasing trend of published articles on research topics other than spectator-related topics was observed after 2011. Consequently, owing to the insufficient yet essential amount of studies that were indicated by the above research trends, future research promoting professional sports management research based on a life-studies approach is necessary.