International Sport Management

Eric MacIntosh, PhD, is a professor of sport management at the University of Ottawa in Canada. MacIntosh researches and teaches on various topics, covering concepts such as organizational culture, leadership, and satisfaction. 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 worked with many prominent national and international sport organizations. Helping sport leaders make their organizations better for employees and the organization itself continues to drive his work. He is a well-published scholar in leading peer-reviewed journals and is a frequent speaker at management conferences. He is a North American Society for Sport Management research fellow as well as coauthor of the second edition of Organizational Behavior in Sport Management.

Gonzalo A. Bravo, PhD, is a professor of sport management in the School of Sport Sciences at West Virginia University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses. Since 2025, he has also served as director of the Global Sport and Performance Center within the same school. Bravo holds a master's degree in sport administration from Pennsylvania State University and a PhD in sport management from Ohio State University. Before entering academia in 2001, he spent 11 years as sport director at Fundación Club Deportivo Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile.

His research focuses on sport policy and governance, organizational behavior in sport, and sport in Latin America. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, authored six books, and delivered more than 120 presentations at academic conferences worldwide. From 2015 to 2018, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Latin American Studies. He completed sabbaticals at the Federal University of Paraná in Brazil (2016) and at the Pan-American and Parapan American Games in Santiago, Chile (2023). From 2022 to 2025, he served on the board of directors of the American Kinesiology Association.

Carrie LeCrom, PhD, has served as the executive director of the Center for Sport Leadership (CSL) at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) since 2015, holding various roles within the CSL since joining the staff in 2003. In her time at the CSL, the program has been recognized as one of the top 10 sport business programs in the world. LeCrom is passionate about the use of sport for social change and focuses much of her research in this area. She has secured over $2 million in grant funding from sources such as the U.S. Department of State and the NCAA. Since 2007, she has created and coordinated two-way citizen exchanges in sport diplomacy between the United States and Cambodia, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Rwanda, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, and Turkmenistan. These programs have focused on various social issues specific to each country and community, including health promotion, HIV and AIDS education, gender empowerment, reconciliation, and more.

Building on these programs, LeCrom won a prestigious Fulbright fellowship that took her and her family to South Africa, where they lived for all of 2019. As a Fulbright Scholar, LeCrom piloted and launched an all-girls leadership and gender empowerment soccer program in the rural community of Jamestown, South Africa. Her local host institution, Stellenbosch University, provided support for the program's continuance upon LeCrom's departure. She additionally worked with several other organizations involved in sport for development while in South Africa, including Grassroot Soccer, Training4Changes, Roxy Davis Foundation, and Laureus.

LeCrom is the editor of Journal of Sport for Development and is a well-published scholar in some of sport management's top journals, such as Sport Management Review, the Journal of Sport Management, Sport in Society, and Sport Marketing Quarterly. In 2020 she was selected as a North American Society for Sport Management research fellow and in 2025 was named a Sport Management Education Journal (SMEJ) teaching fellow by the same organization. In 2014, LeCrom was awarded the Ruch Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest teaching award given by VCU's School of Education, and in 2016 she was the Award of Excellence recipient for combined excellence in teaching, research, and service. LeCrom holds degrees from Lynchburg College (BA in business administration and sport management), and VCU (MS in sport leadership; PhD in education).