Sport Management: Literature Report

ASSESSMENT BRIEF     

You are required to design and conduct a literature report to address a real-life SPORT MANAGEMENT problem.

To do this you need to:

• Identify a research problem by drawing on insight from contemporary sources such as trade magazines, blogs, conversations with industry practitioners, and/or recommended future research from academic journal articles (THIS PROBLEM MUST BE AN ISSUE OF CONCERN WITHIN SPORT MANAGEMENT).
• Develop the problem into a clearly stated research question
• Search for and read relevant literature
• Compile an analytical review of relevant literature (describe, synthesise and question previous research findings)
• Ensure that the work is arranged in a logical and progressive manner
• Identify recommendations for sport management practice/change based on your review findings
• Provide a conclusion summarising the answer to the research question
• Keep summary notes of tutorials and append them to your report.

For further guidance on report writing and literature reviewing please, refer to Skills plus on the University library page, via the following links:

Literature Reviewing:

Report writing:

Please note that textbook and library guidance on literature reviewing will often be based on using a literature review as a context to identifying a research question and a subsequent empirical study. In this assessment, you are instead, using the review as the actual research tool. Therefore, you must identify your research question first and use the review to help answer it. Further guidance on this will be provided in taught sessions.