Steve Swanson

Position

Senior Lecturer, Sport Management

Faculty

Faculty of Business and Law

Department

Deakin Business School

Campus

Melbourne Burwood Campus

Contact

s.swanson@deakin.edu.au

Biography

Dr Steve Swanson is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Management in the Department of Management in the Deakin Business School. He teaches Sport Leadership and Governance and Sport Organisation Behaviour and has supervised several PhD and Masters candidates to completion. Steve is a member of the Centre for Sport Research, an Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Global Sport Management, and a Section Editor for Sport Management Digest. He has also recently co-authored a book called Fostering Innovative Cultures in Sport and served as Guest Co-Editor of a special issue of the Journal of Sport Management, entitled Sport Leadership: A New Generation of Thinking.

Dr Swanson’s research focuses on leadership, innovation, and well-being, with a particular focus on the sport environment. In addition, he also leads multiple international research projects relating to topics such as sport for development, social networks, foreign ownership, and community identity. Additional projects include work on unity in diversity through the Olympics and drivers of sport employee job attraction and engagement. Dr Swanson’s research is being funded by prestigious organisations such as the British Academy and the Olympic Studies Centre. He is a Fellow in the UK Higher Education Academy, the recipient of multiple teaching awards, and has been a guest speaker for several international universities and sporting bodies. Dr Swanson has also been a successful basketball coach at both the professional and intercollegiate levels.

Research interests

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

Affiliations

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)

Teaching interests

Leadership
Organisational Theory

Knowledge areas

Leadership

Innovation

Well-being

Organisational Theory

Sport Development

Coaching

Conferences

Selected Examples:

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., and 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.

Professional activities

Google Scholar

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

Research groups

Centre for Sport Research - Deakin University

Awards

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.

Projects

Swanson, S., Collison, H., Burnett, C., & Skinner, J. 'Sport for Development and Olympic Movement Stakeholders: A Social Network Analysis'. Olympic Studies Centre, 2019.

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, 2019.

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, 2019.