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Overview

Jeffrey D. James is affiliated with Florida State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of social sciences, engineering, and computer science. Their research intersects several subfields, including media technology, sociology and political science, information systems, gender studies, and economics and econometrics.

The primary topics of their work focus on information and communication technology (ICT) impacts and policies, ICT in developing communities, sport and mega-event impacts, sports, gender, and society, innovation and socioeconomic development, consumer behavior in brand consumption and identification, and recreation, leisure, and wilderness management.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jeffrey D. James include:

  • Social capital and consumer happiness: toward an alternative explanation of consumer-brand identification, 2021, Journal of Brand Management
  • To be or not to be: negotiating leisure constraints with technology and data analytics amid the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, Leisure Studies
  • The smart feature phone revolution in developing countries: Bringing the internet to the bottom of the pyramid, 2020, The Information Society
  • Does Being a Sport Fan Provide Meaning in Life?, 2021, Journal of Sport Management
  • Ovarian Combined Serous Borderline Tumor/Low-grade Serous Carcinoma and Mesonephric-like Lesion: Report of 2 Cases With New Observations, 2022, International Journal of Gynecological Pathology

Jeffrey D. James has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including James Du, Amy Chan Hyung Kim, Carter Floyd, Daniel C. Funk, and Masayuki Yoshida.

The scientist's work appears in various publication venues where they have multiple contributions. Frequent venues include:

  • Journal of Sport Management
  • International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship
  • Journal of Brand Management
  • Leisure Studies
  • The Information Society

Jeffrey D. James has also published books with Springer International Publishing and Edward Elgar Publishing. Titles from Springer International Publishing include New Perspectives on Current Development Policy (2021), The Impact of Smart Feature Phones on Development (2020), and Gender, Internet Use, and Covid-19 in the Global South (2022). An upcoming book titled Learning, Digital Skills, and the Global South is scheduled for 2025 with Edward Elgar Publishing.

Best Publications

  • The Psychological Continuum Model: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding an Individual's Psychological Connection to Sport

    Daniel Carl Funk;Jeff James

  • Service quality dimensions: an examination of Grönroos’s service quality model

    Gi‐Du Kang;Jeffrey D. James

  • The Motivation Scale for Sport Consumption: assessment of the scale's psychometric properties.

    Galen T. Trail;Jeffrey D. James

  • Customer satisfaction with game and service experiences: antecedents and consequences.

    Masayuki Yoshida;Jeffrey D. James

  • Sports Teams and Their Communities: Examining the Influence of External Group Identities on Team Identity

    Bob Heere;Jeffrey D. James

  • Female and Male Sport Fans: A Comparison of Sport Consumption Motives

    Jeffrey D. James;Lynn L. Ridinger

  • Development of a Scale to Measure Team Brand Associations in Professional Sport

    Stephen D. Ross;Jeffrey D. James;Patrick Vargas

  • The Mediating Role of Perceived Value: Team Identification and Purchase Intention of Team-Licensed Apparel

    Harry H. Kwon;Galen T. Trail;Jeffrey D. James

  • Motivational Factors Influencing the Behaviour of J. League Spectators

    Daniel F. Mahony;Makoto Nakazawa;Daniel C. Funk;Jeffrey D. James

  • The role of cognitive development and socialization in the initial development of team loyalty.

    Jeffrey D. James

  • Comparing sport consumer motivations across multiple sports.

    J. James;Stephen Ross

  • Stepping Outside the Lines: Developing a Multi-dimensional Team Identity Scale Based on Social Identity Theory

    Bob Heere;Jeffrey D. James

  • Brand Community Development Through Associated Communities: Grounding Community Measurement Within Social Identity Theory

    Bob Heere;Matthew Walker;Masayuki Yoshida;Yong Jae Ko

  • Predicting Sponsorship Outcomes from Attitudinal Constructs: The Case of a Professional Basketball Event

    Kostas Alexandris;Elisabeth Tsaousi;Jeffrey James

  • Mobile phones in Africa: how much do we really know?

    Jeffrey James;Mila Versteeg

  • MacSHAPA and the enterprise of exploratory sequential data analysis (ESDA)

    Penelope Sanderson;Jay Scott;Tom Johnston;John Mainzer

  • An Identification and Examination of Influences That Shape the Creation of a Professional Team Fan

    Richard H. Kolbe;Jeffrey D. James

  • Service quality at sporting events: Is aesthetic quality a missing dimension?

    Masayuki Yoshida;Jeffrey D. James

  • Psychological connection to a new sport team: building or maintaining the consumer base?

    J. D. James;R. H. Kolbe;G. T. Trail

  • The Effect of Associated Group Identities on Team Identity

    Bob Heere;Jeffrey James;Masayuki Yoshida;Glaucio Scremin

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel L. Wann
Daniel L. Wann Murray State University
Galen T. Trail
Galen T. Trail Seattle University
Daniel Carl Funk
Daniel Carl Funk Temple University
Matthew C. Walker
Matthew C. Walker University College London

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