A/Prof. Steve Swanson

• Leadership, innovation, and well-being
• Social networks and sport for development
• Foreign ownership and community identity
• Unitiy and diversity through the Olympics

• European Association for Sport Management (EASM)
• North American Association for Sport Management (NASSM)
• Sport Management Association Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ)
• World Association for Sport Management (WASM)

• Leadership
• Organisational Theory

Leadership

Innovation

Well-being

Identity

Sport Development

Coaching

Selected Examples:

Swanson S. & Damon, Z. (2023). Leadership and Emotion: The Roles of Empathic Leadership and Passion in the Sport Workplace. Paper Presented at the meeting of the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand, Canberra, Australia.

Stanic, M., Swanson, S., Skinner, S. & Mueller, J. (2023). Former Athlete, Future Leader: On- and Off-Field Implicit Leadership Theories of Athletes – A Phenomenological Study on Leadership. Paper Presented at the meeting of the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand, Canberra, Australia.

Drehlich, M., Rowe, K., Phillips, P., & Swanson, S. (2023). Understanding the process of innovation in sport development. Paper Presented at the meeting of the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand, Canberra, Australia.

Swanson, S., Skinner, J., Smith, A.C.T., & Stanic, M. (2022). A case study of foreign ownership in sport: Investigating identity in the English professional sport context. Paper Presented at the meeting of the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne, Australia.

Inoue, Y., Lock, D., Gillooly, L., Shipway, R., & Swanson, S. (2021). The organizational identification and well-being framework: theorizing about how sport organizations contribute to crisis response and recovery. North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM), Online.

Swanson, S., & Todd, S. (2019). Servant Leadership for Multidimensional Sport Employee Well-being: Relationships, Health, and Happiness. European Association for Sport Management (EASM), Seville, Spain.

Todd, S., Magnusen, M., Swanson, S., Koba., T. (2019) The attractiveness of sport jobs: A policy capturing approach for key predictors of job seeker decision making. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

Todd, S., Koba, T., Mao, Z., & Swanson, S. (2019) A Policy Capturing Exploration of Sport Job Seeker Decision Making: The Relative Influence of Prestige, Segment, Duties, and Location. North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM), New Orleans, LA, USA.

Mueller, J., Skinner, J., Swanson, S., & Billsberry, J. (2019). Surfacing Implicit Leadership Theories in a Professional Sport Context: A Comparison of Four Research Techniques in Two Bundesliga Handball Clubs. Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ), Adelaide, Australia.

Swanson, S., Kent A., Smith, A.C.T. & Skinner, J. (2018). Innovative Cultures in Professional Sports: The Role of Servant Leadership in Fostering Employee Cooperation, Creativity, and Satisfaction. European Association for Sport Management (EASM), Malmo, Sweden.

Swanson, S., & Skinner, J. (2017). Leading in Multiple Contexts: Investigating the Meaning of Leadership for Sport Officials. European Association for Sport Management (EASM), Bern, Switzerland.

Swanson, S., & Kent, A. (2016). Employee Pride and Identification with Sport: Key Drivers of Positive Organizational Behavior. European Association for Sport Management (EASM), Warsaw, Poland.

Swanson, S., & Kent, A. (2015). Sport Workplace Identification: Multiple Pathways to Job Engagement. European Association for Sport Management (EASM), Dublin, Ireland.

Swanson, S., & Kent, A. (2014). Affect in the Workplace: The impact of passion and pride in professional sports. Inaugural meeting of the World Association for Sport Management (WASM), Madrid, Spain.

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=J0fDjuUAAAAJ&hl=en

• Centre for Sport Research - Deakin University

2012 Student Research Competition Winner, North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM). Toward a Sport-Specific Model of Leadership: Initial Evidence of What is Credible and Prototypical in Sport.

Swanson, S., Robertson, J.,Olive, L., Lamon, S., Rowe, K., Dunn, M., &  Piatkowski, T.  Beyond Injury Recovery: How Performance Support Practitioners Collaborate to Facilitate Holistic Athlete Wellbeing During the Return to Play Journey. Australian Institute of Sport.

Swanson, S., Collison, H., Burnett, C., & Skinner, J. Sport for Development and Olympic Movement Stakeholders: A Social Network Analysis. Olympic Studies Centre.

Swanson, S., Skinner, J., & Smith, A. The Impact of Foreign Ownership on Community and Club Identity: A Case Study of Leyton Orient FC. The British Academy.

Robertson, J., Swanson, S., Olive, L., Lamon, S., Rowe, K., Dunn, M., &  Piatkowski, T. Developing an AW&E Toolkit: A qualitative study of athlete wellbeing and engagement (AW&E) management in Australian high-performance sport. Australian Sports Commission.

Phillips, P., Rowe, K., Swanson, S., & McLeod J. Balancing the Board: Women in Sport Leadership in Victoria. Office of Women in Sport and Recreation. Change Our Game.

Inoue, Y., Yoshida, M., & Swanson, S. Promoting unity in diversity through the Olympics: Multinational comparisons of young adults’ perceived impact between London 2012 and Tokyo 2020. Olympic Studies Centre.

Rowe., K., Phillips, P., Reddan, S., & Swanson, S. Evaluation of Basketball Victoria’s Positive Start Program. Basketball Victoria. Victorian Government.