North American Society for Sport Management

Welcome to the official website for the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM)!

NASSM is actively involved in supporting and assisting professionals working in the fields of sport, leisure and recreation. The purpose of the North American Society for Sport Management is to promote, stimulate, and encourage study, research, scholarly writing, and professional development in the area of sport management - both theoretical and applied aspects. Topics of interest to NASSM members include sport marketing, future directions in management, employment perspectives, management competencies, leadership, sport and the law, personnel management, facility management, organizational structures, fund raising, and conflict resolution.

If you have any suggestions or comments regarding this web site and the services offered, we'd like to hear from you. Send us an email at web@nassm.com.

Conference Information:
The 2009 NASSM Conference will be held in Columbia, South Carolina, from May 27 - 30, 2009. The deadline for abstract submission has past, and submitted abstracts are now undergoing peer review.

NASSM Conference Abstract Archive
An archive of abstracts presented at the NASSM Conference is now online. It currently contains abstracts from 2007 and 2008. We are currently working on converting the abstracts from the 2005 and 2006 conferences into PDF documents and adding them to the archive.