Affiliated Scholars | Global Institute for Responsible Sport Organizations

Annick Willem, PhD

Ghent University Associate Professor - [email protected]

Annick Willem holds a PhD in Applied Economic Sciences (Ghent University) and Master degrees in Applied Economic Sciences and in Law and Economics. She is Associate Professor in Sport Management at the Department of Movement & Sports Sciences (Ghent University) and holder of the Olympic Chair Henri de Baillet Latour-Jacques Rogge. She is head of the Sport Management research group and the PrOFS (Prevention of fraud in sports) project. Her research is on management and policy in the sports sector, with a particular focus on social issues, such as Sport-for-All and ethics management. Annick teaches several sport management courses and is academic coordinator of the Belgian Olympic Academy.

Bram Constandt, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, Belgium - [email protected]

Dr. Constandt's main research interests include ethics management, corruption, and gambling in sport. His research has been presented with the 2020 ESMQ New Researcher Award (NRA) of the European Association for Sport Management (EASM) and has been published in such outlets as the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Sport Management, Sport Management Review, Nonprofit Management & Leadership, and Leisure Sciences. He is co-managing the PrOFS research project on fraud prevention in sport while being a partner in two ongoing Erasmus+ projects on match-fixing (i.e., EPOSM and Integriball). He is also a board member of the Center for Ethics in Sport (ICES) and a member of the IRNOVIS network on violence and integrity in sport.

Kathy Babiak, PhD

University of Michigan Associate Professor - [email protected]

Dr. Kathy Babiak is an associate professor of Sport Management and director of the Michigan Center for Sport & Social Responsibility at the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology. Dr. Babiak’s main line of research focuses on sport and social impact. In this area, she explores how organizations devise social responsibility strategies to maximize the value and benefit to both organizations and to society. She has also explored strategic factors motivating sports organizations to enter into partnership relationships with other organizations in the non-profit, government, and private sectors.

Dr. Babiak has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Sport Management, Sport Management Review, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and the Journal of Business Ethics (JBE). She is an associate editor for the European Sport Management Quarterly and on the editorial board of numerous sport management journals.

Landy Lu

Assistant Professor, Sport Management - ([email protected])

Dr. Lu's main research directions focus on investigating 1) institutional and organizational change in sport and 2) the governance and management of interorganizational relationships. Dr. Lu studies these organizational dynamics in a variety of contexts, such as player concussions, corporate social responsibility, major sporting events, and esports. She utilizes multiple research methods including quantitative (e.g., event history analysis, structural equation modeling), qualitative (e.g., case studies, field methods, archival text analysis), and social network approaches. Her work has been published in journals, such as Journal of Sport Management, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, and Journal of Intercollegiate Sport.

Clint Warren, PhD

Lecturer, Sport Management - ([email protected])

Dr. Warren's primary research agenda broadly examines sport business strategy with an emphasis on sport marketing, sales, and fundraising. Whenever possible, he examines these, and other, topics in the context of soccer in North America. Most recently, Dr. Warren has authored two book chapters on the business and culture of soccer in the United States. His current projects seek to use service-dominant logic and service innovation theory to examine how sport organizations may best co-create value with spectators in a manner that can enhance community impacts. He is also currently conducting an international comparison of the business strategies of professional and amateur soccer leagues from the perspective of growing the game as a community asset.