The Journal of Global Sport Management (JGSM) aims to be the global platform for focused, rigorous, and interdisciplinary research that has originality, depth, and clarify of insights into significant issues and developments of interest to sport management. Its main objectives: to advance research; to enhance practice; and to facilitate good policy-making decisions.

The JGSM will publish peer-reviewed conceptual and empirical papers with a theoretical foundation, and cases of original works. Typically, theory-driven empirical studies are considered by JGSM, but conceptual and theoretical papers are also considered when they have clear contributions to advancing out theoretical/conceptual understanding of sport management issues; for example, building new theories and proposing propositions, but a simple review of literature is not normally considered. The JGSM covers a wide range of topics including the following topical areas:
1. sport organization and governance;
2. sport marketing;
3. sport media and communication;
4. sport human resource management;
5. sport policy;
6. legal issues in sport management;
7. sport consumer psychology;
8. sport event and tourism;
9. sport development; and
10. sport, culture, and management
11. sport economics and finance