PHD in business administration, concentration in tourism and Sport
Sport component
Faculty
Currently accepting doctoral students.
If you feel that your interests are a match to what we are doing, please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss a possible future as part of our research team.
Dr. Aubrey Kent
School of Tourism and Hospitality Management
1810 N. 13th Street, Speakman Hall 349
Temple University,
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215.204.3810
aubkent@temple.edu
Research Interests
Dr. Kent currently is recruiting students who have interests in three broad areas:
- Corporate Social Responsibility. CSR is emerging as a critical and fertile area of organizational research. The sport industry has the ability to leverage its unique assets to promote social good, as has been active in doing so. Research potential is vast, as thus far has focused on various stakeholder benefits, financial outcomes, and in a limited fashion on social impact. New perspectives in this area are certainly welcome and encouraged.
- Work Attitudes. Employee attitudes have remained an important area of study through all manner of economic times. Currently, the competition for jobs and the cost of turnover have refocused efforts towards creating value through human resources. Social Identity theoretical perspectives have great potential for advancing the discourse regarding employees and volunteers in the sport industry, in particular.
- Leadership. Never out of style, the focus on leadership has sharpened decidedly over the past decade. Theoretical and practical perspectives that focus on succession issues and charisma are particularly of interest.
Dr.Jeremy Jordan
School of Tourism and Hospitality Management
1810 N. 13th Street, Speakman Hall 366
Temple University,
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215.204.3811
jsjordan@temple.edu
Research Interests
Dr. Jordan currently is recruiting students who have interests in one or more of these areas:
- Organizational Behavior. The effective functioning of organizations is dependent, in part, on the performance of employees. The attitudes that employees develop about their work experience can have a profound impact on various work behaviors. Understanding how and why employees develop specific work attitudes such as satisfaction, commitment, justice, as well as other attitudes can greatly benefit organizations desiring to become more effective and efficient.
- Participant Sport Events. The number of participant sport events, both large and small, continues to increase each year. There is a need to conduct research on various aspects/outcomes of these events to more completely understand how they benefit host communities. The Sport Tourism Research Network (STERN) is a group of academic and industry professionals who conduct research on participant sport events in order to provide evidence based recommendations on three related areas.
- Community Benefit Analysis – measure of the economic benefits associated with event and the role the event has in promoting active leisure among community members.
- Operation Analysis – determine participant satisfaction with event operations and provide managerial recommendations for improvement.
- Marketing Analysis – provide demographic, psychographic, and behavioral profiles of participants.