When Crises Change the Game: Establishing a Typology of Sports-Related Crises

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  • Natalie Brown-Devlin Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA Author
  • Kenon A. Brown Associate Professor, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA Author

Keywords:

crisis communication, situational crisis communication theory, crisis typology, sports communication

Abstract

In order to properly evaluate crises that occur in sports, scholars have previously called for a sports-specific crisis communication typology (Wilson et al., 2010). Two studies were conducted to develop the resulting typology. Study 1 utilized a questionnaire to obtain a comprehensive list of sports-related crises that were later grouped into 12 crisis types and three unique clusters through the use of qualitative content analysis. Study 2 utilized a questionnaire completed by 282 college students to determine the levels of crisis responsibility attributed to each cluster of crises. The resulting typology provides the necessary foundation for crisis communication research that uses sports as a context by evaluating the level of organizational blame that exists when a crisis occurs.

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2020-03-09

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When Crises Change the Game: Establishing a Typology of Sports-Related Crises. (2020). Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research, 3(1). https://jicrcr.org/index.php/jicrcr/article/view/15

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