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Janet S. Fink

Associate Dean, Undergraduate Programs & Douglas & Diana Berthiaume Endowed Professor

Sport Management

Education

PhD, Sport Management, The Ohio State University, 1997
MS, Higher Education and Student Affairs, The Ohio State University, 1994
BA, Physical Education, The Ohio State University, 1988

Academic Appointments

Professor of Sport Management, University of Massachusetts, 9/13-Present
Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Massachusetts, 9/12-9/13
Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Connecticut, 8/07-9/12
Associate and Assistant Professor of Sport Management, The Ohio State University, 8/99-8/07

Recent Honors / Awards

Distinguished Lecture, Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport, University of Minnesota, 2012
The Ohio State University Distinguished Teaching Award, 2007
NASSM Research Fellow, 2006

Research Interests

Sport Consumer Behavior
Marketing of Female Athletes and Women's Sport
Diversity Issues in Sport

Teaching Interests

General
  • Sport Consumer Behavior
  • Sport Marketing
  • Sport Law

Selected Publications

Larkin, B. & Fink, J. S.(2019).  Toward a Better Understanding of Fan Aggression and Dysfunction: The Moderating Role of Collective Narcissism. Journal of Sport Management, 33, 69-78.

Joo, S., Miller, E., & Fink, J. S. (2019). Consumer evaluations of CSR authenticity: Development and validation of a multidimensional CSRauthenticity scale. Journal of Business Research, 98, 236-249. 

Parker, H., Mudrick, M. & Fink, J. S.(2019). The impact of masculine gender expression on female athletes’ endorser effectiveness. Sport Marketing Quarterly, 27, 264-274.

Demirel, A., Fink, J. S., & McKelvey, S. (2018). An examination of employees’ response to sponsorship: The role of team identification. Sport Marketing Quarterly, 27,67-81.

Kihl, L., Ndiaye, M., & Fink, J. S. (2018). Corruption’s impact on organizational outcomes. Journal of Social Responsibility, 14, 40-60.  60.  https://doi.org/10.1108/SRJ-12-2016-0217