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Overview

Pamela Wicker is affiliated with Bielefeld University in Germany and works primarily in the field of social sciences. Their research spans various subfields, including sociology and political science, gender studies, social psychology, economics and econometrics, as well as developmental and educational psychology.

The research topics covered by Pamela Wicker focus on areas such as sport and mega-event impacts, sports, gender, and society, sports analytics and performance, gender diversity and inequality, recreation, leisure, wilderness management, nonprofit sector and volunteering, and environmental education and sustainability.

Their recent papers include:

  • Board gender diversity, critical masses, and organizational problems of non-profit sport clubs (2020), published in European Sport Management Quarterly
  • Determinants of pro-environmental behavior among voluntary sport club members (2021), published in German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research
  • Travelling to Bundesliga matches: the carbon footprint of football fans (2021), published in Journal of Sport & Tourism
  • The gender earnings gap among elite athletes in semi-professional sports (2021), published in Managing Sport and Leisure
  • Effects of Pilates Training on Physiological and Psychological Health Parameters in Healthy Older Adults and in Older Adults With Clinical Conditions Over 55 Years: A Meta-Analytical Review (2021), published in Frontiers in Neurology

Pamela Wicker frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Lara Lesch
  • Tim F. Thormann
  • Bernd Gröben
  • Katrin Scharfenkamp
  • Milan Dransmann

Their work is often published in specific academic venues, including:

  • International Journal of Sport Finance
  • Sustainability
  • Journal of Sport Management
  • Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
  • Sport Management Review

Best Publications

  • Scarcity of resources in German non-profit sport clubs

    Pamela Vanessa Wicker;Christoph Breuer

  • Understanding the Importance of Organizational Resources to Explain Organizational Problems: Evidence from Nonprofit Sport Clubs in Germany

    Pamela Vanessa Wicker;Christoph Breuer

  • Promoting Sport for All to Age-specific Target Groups: the Impact of Sport Infrastructure

    Pamela Vanessa Wicker;Christoph Breuer;Tim Pawlowski

  • eSport: Construct specifications and implications for sport management

    George B. Cunningham;Sheranne Fairley;Lesley Ferkins;Shannon Kerwin

  • Analyzing the impact of sport infrastructure on sport participation using geo-coded data: Evidence from multi-level models

    Pamela Vanessa Wicker;Kirstin Hallmann;Christoph Breuer

  • Sport participation and subjective well-being: instrumental variable results from German survey data.

    Jane E. Ruseski;Brad R. Humphreys;Kirstin Hallman;Pamela Wicker

  • Determinants of sport participation in different sports

    Christoph Breuer;Kirstin Hallmann;Pamela Vanessa Wicker

  • Volunteerism and volunteer management in sport

    Pamela Wicker

  • Understanding the importance of sport infrastructure for participation in different sports – findings from multi-level modeling

    Kirstin Hallmann;Pamela Vanessa Wicker;Christoph Breuer;Lauren Schönherr

  • The carbon footprint of active sport participants.

    Pamela Wicker

  • A multi-level framework for investigating the engagement of sport volunteers

    Pamela Vanessa Wicker;Kirstin Hallmann

  • The value of Olympic success and the intangible effects of sport events – a contingent valuation approach in Germany

    Pamela Vanessa Wicker;Kirstin Hallmann;Christoph Breuer;Svenja Feiler

  • The relationship between intensity and duration of physical activity and subjective well-being.

    Pamela Wicker;Bernd Frick

  • Organizational Resilience of Community Sport Clubs Impacted by Natural Disasters

    Pamela Wicker;Kevin Robert Filo;Graham Cuskelly

  • Determinants of sport participation in the European Union

    Gregor Hovemann;Pamela Wicker

  • What is influencing consumer expenditure and intention to revisit? An investigation of marathon events

    Pamela Vanessa Wicker;Kirstin Hallmann;james J. Zhang

  • Demographic and economic factors influencing inclusion in the German sport system – a microanalysis of the years 1985 to 2005

    Christoph Breuer;Pamela Wicker

  • Estimating the value of national sporting success

    Pamela Vanessa Wicker;Pamela Vanessa Wicker;Joachim Prinz;Tassilo von Hanau

  • Socio-economic patterns of sport demand and ageing

    Christoph Breuer;Kirstin Hallmann;Pamela Vanessa Wicker;Svenja Feiler

  • Organizational performance of nonprofit and for-profit sport organizations

    Tobias Nowy;Pamela Wicker;Svenja Feiler;Christoph Breuer

Frequent Co-Authors

Christoph Breuer
Christoph Breuer German Sport University Cologne
Paul Downward
Paul Downward Loughborough University
George B. Cunningham
George B. Cunningham Texas A&M University
Susanne Becken
Susanne Becken Griffith University
Thomas Schack
Thomas Schack Bielefeld University

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