International Sport Management

About Eric MacIntosh

Eric MacIntosh PhD is an associate professor of sport management at the University of Ottawa in Canada. MacIntosh researches and teaches on various organizational behavior topics covering concepts such as culture leadership satisfaction and socialization. His principal research interests are the functioning of the organization and how a favorable culture can transmit positively internally and outwardly into the marketplace. MacIntosh has consulted for and conducted research with many prominent national and international sport organizations including the Commonwealth Games Federation NHL Right to Play U Sports and Youth Olympic Games. He is well published in leading peer-reviewed sport management journals and is a member of several prominent editorial boards.Gonzalo A. Bravo PhD is an associate professor of sport management at West Virginia University in the United States. A native of Santiago Chile Bravo has a masters degree in sport administration from Penn State University and a doctorate in sport management from Ohio State University. Before joining academia he worked as sport director in a large sport organization in Chile. His research examines policy and governance aspects of sport as well as organizational behavior in sport. His work has been published in journals such as International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing Managing Sport and Leisure International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics and the Journal of Sport Management. He is also the coeditor of Sport in Latin America: Policy Organization Management (Routledge 2016) and the author of Sport Mega Events in Emerging Economies (Palgrave 2018). He is a founding member of the Latin American Association for Sport Management (ALGEDE) and the Latin American Association of Sociocultural Studies of Sport (ALESDE). In 2016 Bravo completed a sabbatical in Brazil and from 2014 to 2017 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Pittsburghs Center for Latin American Studies.Ming Li EdD was a professor of sports administration and the chair of the department of sports administration in the College of Business at Ohio University in the United States. Li received his doctorate in sport administration from the University of Kansas.  Li was a former president of the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) and served as commissioner of the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA). He was a member of the editorial board of Journal of Sport Management and Sport Marketing Quarterly and coauthored two books in sport management. He was a guest professor at six institutions in China including the Central University of Finance and Economics and Tianjin University of Sport. Li served as an Olympic envoy for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. He also served as a consultant for the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games organizing committee. Li passed away in 2022.